Rights round-up
Thursday, 12 March 2015
SalesFiction—A&U has sold Korean rights to the first five books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’ series (Kerry Greenwood); Finnish rights to The Distant Hours (Kate Morton); Dutch rights to two forthcoming...
Google Cultural Institute launches in Australia
Thursday, 12 March 2015
The collections of 14 Australian cultural institutions are now available online via the Google Cultural Institute of Australia, reports ProBono News. The Google Cultural Institute currently showcases 60,000 artworks from...
NSW library seeks dogs for reading program
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Lake Macquarie City Library in regional NSW is calling on pet owners and their dogs to participate in its Building Reading Confidence for Kids (BaRK) literacy program, reports Government News....
Little Free Library movement comes to Canberra
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Two ‘Little Free Libraries’, also known as ‘community book exchanges’, have recently opened in Canberra, reports ABC News Canberra. John Lovering, a former employee of the National Library of Australia,...
International library news
Thursday, 12 March 2015
New Humanities Open Book program to revive backlist titlesIn the US, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are working on a pilot grant...
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 longlist announced
Thursday, 12 March 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been announced. View the longlisted titles here. Of the 20 books to...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 12 March 2015
‘We have to reset our business to find how we reach bigger audiences to justify our investments in individual titles. We used to operate in local markets, now we operate...
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 longlist announced
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been announced. This year’s longlisted titles are: Outline (Rachel Cusk, Faber)...
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2015 finalists announced
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
The finalists have been announced for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which recognises the best work of fiction published in the preceding year by an American author. The finalists...
Penguin Random House relaunches Brightly website for parents
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has relaunched its Brightly website to encourage parents to help their children to read, after launching in beta in October 2014. The site contains book recommendations, reading...
‘Beloved Land’ wins ACT Book of the Year
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Gordon Peake’s Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste (Scribe) has won the 2014 ACT Book of the Year Award.Peake’s book, which explores nation-building in Timor-Leste following its independence...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Big international fiction releases are dominating the bestsellers chart, with three new titles making it into the top 10 in their first week. While American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle,...
Keneally wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Thomas Keneally is the recipient of the 2015 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Kylie Scott was named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the second year in a row at the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Awards in Canberra on 7 March.Scott also won awards for...
HarperCollins launches Spanish-language imprints
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
HarperCollins US is expanding its Spanish-language program by launching imprints HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins Español will publish around 50 titles each year for distribution in the...
Craig Potton Publishing changes name to Potton & Burton
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
New Zealand publishing house Craig Potton Publishing has changed its name to Potton & Burton to ‘reflect the increasingly diverse range of New Zealand books’ it publishes.Robbie Burton, co-owner and...
Report projects 8.3% decline in bookstore sales over five years; ABA queries methodology
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
An IbisWorld report has projected that bricks-and-mortar bookstores will record an average annual revenue decline of 8.3% in the five years from 2009-10 to 2014-15, according to Inside Retail.The same report projects a 5.9%...
writingWA releases tablet apps for illustrated Indigenous stories
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
writingWA has released two tablet apps based on illustrated stories by Indigenous writers, as part of its Project 360 initiative.Mamang is based on the picture book of the same name by...
Wyld wins 2014 Barnes & Noble Discover Award
Friday, 6 March 2015
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won the 2014 Barnes & Noble (B&N) Discover Great New Writers Award in the category of fiction. Wyld will receive US$10,000 (A$12,867)...
Grant delivers keynote at UK independent publishing conference
Friday, 6 March 2015
Hardie Grant Books chief executive Sandy Grant has delivered the keynote address at this year’s Independent Publishers Guild spring conference in Oxfordshire, UK, reports the Bookseller. In his keynote, Grant...
Kinney to open bookstore in US
Friday, 6 March 2015
US children’s author Jeff Kinney is opening a bookstore in the town of Plainville, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe. ‘The reason that we wanted to create a bookstore in...
ABA announces 2015 conference program, partnership with Miles Franklin Award
Friday, 6 March 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for this year’s conference, to be held at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 17-18 May. Hiroshi Sogo, director of...
No ‘B+P Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 6 March 2015
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday 9 March in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, the Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on that day.
Small publisher sells via ‘pay what you want’ model
Thursday, 5 March 2015
In the US, small publisher Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is pre-selling a title using a ‘pay what you want’ model, reports Flavorwire. Print copies of poet Noah Eli Gordon’s book...
St Leger to leave the Copyright Agency
Thursday, 5 March 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced that CEO Murray St Leger will leave the company in July.St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian...
Johnson wins RBC Taylor Prize for nonfiction
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
In Canada, Plum Johnson has won the RBC Taylor Prize for nonfiction for her memoir They Left Us Everything (Penguin Canada), reports Publishers Weekly. The jury described the book, which...
Avid Reader opens children’s bookshop
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Brisbane’s Avid Reader has opened its specialist children’s, YA and giftware bookstore, Where the Wild Things Are Bookshop, located next to its West End store.Owner Fiona Stager told Books+Publishing that the new store,...
German independent bookshops to launch online store
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
An alliance of 600 German independent bookstores will launch online store Genialokal.de on 12 March, the first day of the Leipzig Book Fair, reports The Bookseller. Positioned as a possible competitor...
On tour: Meet the author Sally Gardner
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Sally Gardner is the author of The Door That Led to Where (Hot Key Books, January). She will attend the 2015 Reading Matters Conference in Melbourne in late May.What would...
Australia Council report finds 87% of Australians read ‘literature’, more than half read weekly
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Reading is the most popular way for Australians to consume the arts, according to a new Australia Council report.‘Arts Nation: An Overview of Australian Arts’ is part of an ‘evolving...
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