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Australian Book Design Awards 2015 winners announced

Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2015 Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 22 May.The winning titles in each category are:Best designed...

Amazon fines publishers for late deliveries

Monday, 25 May 2015
In the UK, Amazon has started fining publishers for late deliveries of books to its warehouses, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has sent a letter to suppliers warning that if...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 25 May 2015
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, Doubleday) is the number one bestseller in the top 10 chart this week, followed by last week’s number one, Memory Man (David Baldacci,...

Meek wins 2015 Orwell Prize

Monday, 25 May 2015
In the UK, James Meek has won the £3000 (A$5945) Orwell Prize for his book Private Island (Verso), which explores the phenomenon of privatisation in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The prize...

ALIA reveals most borrowed books

Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2015 to mark the start of Library and Information Week, which...

Harlequin Audio launched in the US

Friday, 22 May 2015
In the US, Harlequin has announced the launch of an audiobook imprint Harlequin Audio, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint plans to release 200 audio titles in its first year, beginning...

Copyright Agency Fellowships announced

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are:  Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...

Bloomsbury profit, revenue up

Thursday, 21 May 2015
In the UK, Bloomsbury has reported slight growth in profit and revenue in the 12 months to the end of February, reports the Bookseller. The publisher reported revenue of £111.1m...

Sampson wins 2015 Finch Memoir Prize

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish.Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres of academic excellence’, writes in his...

Behind the clichés: Honey Brown on ‘Six Degrees’ 

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Honey Brown is the Aurealis Award-winning, Miles Franklin Award-longlisted author of the novels Red Queen (Penguin) and The Good Daughter (Viking). Her latest short-story collection Six Degrees (Ventura Press, August)...

Marozzi’s ‘Baghdad’ wins 2015 Ondaatje Prize

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
In the UK, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been awarded to Justin Marozzi for his history book Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (Penguin). The annual £10,000 (A$19,600)...

International library news 

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Chinese architect creates secluded beach libraryIn China, a 5000 square foot library has been built on a secluded beach that can only be reached on foot, reports the Daily Mail....

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
‘The transparent policies and programs of the old Australia Council—supported for 45 years by both sides of politics—look positively utopian’—two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Rodney Hall on cuts to the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
SalesFiction—Spinifex Press has sold Turkish rights to Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis to Güldünya Publishing. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audiobook rights to Interestingly Enough: The Life of Tom Keneally...

Folio Society ends prize sponsorship

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Folio Society will not renew its sponsorship of The Folio Prize, the annual £40,000 (A$78,360) award for best English-language fiction published in the UK, after completing its two-year agreement...

On Tour: Meet the author David Mitchell

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
David Mitchell is the genre-hopping author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, his latest novel (both Sceptre). He will be touring in May, visiting Brisbane, Melbourne...

Text Prize 2015 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Margot McGovern for Neverland, ‘an ambitious, complex story...

More than 60,000 attend Auckland Writers Festival

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted a record crowd of more than 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year, for the five-day festival that finished on Sunday.The festival, which celebrated...

 

 

 

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