Lenton wins Thiel Grant for Online Writing
Friday, 20 March 2015
Patrick Lenton has won the inaugural $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing. Lenton’s project, a proposal to ‘document the experience of visiting the homes and lives of people he played...
YA Book Prize winner announced
Friday, 20 March 2015
In the UK, Irish author Louise O’Neill has won the inaugural YA Book Prize for her debut novel Only Ever Yours (Quercus), reports the Bookseller. Judge and head of children’s at Waterstones...
Rakuten to acquire OverDrive
Friday, 20 March 2015
Japanese internet services company Rakuten, owner of Kobo, has agreed to acquire library digital content supplier OverDrive for US$410m (A$536m). OverDrive said in a statement that it will operate as...
Penguin-branded consumer site to launch in the UK
Friday, 20 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) will launch a ‘multi-million pound’ Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at the Changing Media...
Roberts to retire as SLV CEO and state librarian
Thursday, 19 March 2015
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced that Sue Roberts will retire from her role as CEO and state librarian.Roberts will step down from the position in mid-April but...
Amazon Publishing expands to France; UK announces new tax on profit-shifting
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Amazon Publishing has expanded into France, hiring a senior editor to work on original manuscripts, reports the Bookseller. Clément Monjou, former editor of the eBouguin.fre ebook blog, has been appointed...
PRH uses Tumblr in marketing recruitment drive
Thursday, 19 March 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched a new recruitment drive on Tumblr to attract the ‘marketers of tomorrow’, reports the Bookseller. Four people will join PRH under...
PEN Literary Awards 2015 longlists announced
Thursday, 19 March 2015
The longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards have been announced. Among the awards is the PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize, worth US$25,000 (A$32,277), which is presented to an author whose debut work...
‘Owls Do Cry’ voted Great Kiwi Classic
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Janet Frame’s 1957 debut novel Owls Do Cry has topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival. The initiative, first...
Short and strange: Paddy O’Reilly on ‘Peripheral Vision’
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Paddy O’Reilly’s latest short story collection Peripheral Vision (UQP, July) is ‘blackly comic and bitingly clever’, writes reviewer Hilary Simmons. She spoke to the author. Read Simmons’ review here.Why did you...
Inky Awards 2015 longlists announced
Thursday, 19 March 2015
The longlists for the 2015 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
Tan shortlisted for 2015 Kate Greenaway medal
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer (Lothian) is one of eight titles shortlisted for this year’s Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in children’s books.The shortlists for the Kate Greenaway Medal...
Murakami to headline 2015 Auckland Writers Festival
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will headline the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival, featuring in just one session on 16 May at the Aotea Centre.Joining Murakami will be more than 150 authors in...
Booksellers NZ conference program released
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The theme of this year’s Booksellers NZ Conference is ‘Changing Hearts and Minds: Future Proofing Your Business’, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland on 21 June.Confirmed sessions...
SLQ teams up with Creative Partnerships Australia
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The Queensland Library Foundation has teamed up with Creative Partnerships Australia to raise funding for the State Library of Queensland (SLQ).Until 29 May 2015, every dollar donated to the SLQ...
International library news
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Library elending could cause ‘serious damage’ to booksellers, warns Booksellers Association CEOIn the UK, Booksellers Association CEO Tim Godfray has warned that free elending in libraries could cause ‘serious damage’...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold North American volume rights to The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead (all Ben Sanders). Lacuna Publishing has sold Indian rights to The Last Candles...
‘Owls Do Cry’ voted Great Kiwi Classic
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Janet Frame’s 1957 debut novel Owls Do Cry has topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival. The initiative,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
‘With interest rates low, a weak Australian dollar and a waning interest in e-reading, conditions are perfect for bookstores to reclaim the ground lost since the GFC’—Robinson Bookshop chain co-owner...
Pan Macmillan won’t publish Evans’ Paleo diet baby cookbook; authors to self-publish ebook
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Pan Macmillan has announced it will not publish a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans, with the authors to self-publish a digital version in coming weeks.Pan Macmillan said in a...
ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2015 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Pig the Pug (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Lost & Found (Brooke...
New Faber membership program launches in the UK
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the UK, Faber is launching a two-tiered membership program, which will offer discounts, access to members-only events and special collector’s editions of the publisher’s titles, reports the Bookseller. The...
Paloma wins 2014 ‘Overland’ poetry prize
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Melody Paloma has won the 2014 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, worth $6000, for her poem ‘Hyper-reactive’. The first runner-up was Chris Armstrong for ‘Exile’ and the second runner-up...
Robinsons Bookshop to open new store in May
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop will open a new store at Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne in mid-May. Co-owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing that the store will be fitted out ‘to...
‘Struck’ first YA novel to win UK Romantic Novel of the Year
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the UK, Struck by Joss Stirling (Oxford University Press) has become the first YA novel to be awarded Romantic Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA),...
Little, Brown teams up with Lego for new kids titles
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
In the US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBBYR) has signed a deal with the Lego Group to develop titles based on a number of Lego properties, reports Publishers...
OzCo VIP Program guests announced for SWF 2015
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.The visiting international...
WHSmith to open travel-retail stores at Sydney Airport
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
UK-based retail chain WHSmith is increasing its presence at Sydney Airport with up to six ‘travel essentials’ retail stores in the T1 international terminal. The stores will feature a new...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 16 March 2015
James Patterson’s 14th Deadly Sin (Century) has climbed to the number one spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen...
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Monday, 16 March 2015
Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing and Wilkins Farago have been nominated in the Oceania region for the third annual Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.Presented by the...
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