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Rannard, Drury win NSW Rep of the Year Awards 

Thursday, 11 December 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its NSW Rep of the Year Awards for 2014.Simon Rannard from Penguin was named City Rep of the Year and...

Nielsen study finds teens lag adults in ebook uptake

Thursday, 11 December 2014
In the US, teen readers aged 13-17 are lagging behind adults when it comes to their uptake of ebooks, according to a study from Nielsen. The study found 20% of teens are purchasing...

Shortlist announced for 2014 T.A.G. Hungerford Award

Thursday, 11 December 2014
The authors shortlisted for the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award have been announced. The all-female shortlist consists of: Louise Allan Madelaine Dickie Portland Jones Mihaela Nicolescu Nicole Sinclair....

Sanders to leave ‘Meanjin’

Thursday, 11 December 2014
Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin is searching for a new editor after Zora Sanders announced she will leave the position in 2015.Sanders, who was promoted from deputy editor to editor in 2013, told...

Fox and Lester top PLR, ELR lists 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Books by Alison Lester and Mem Fox have topped the lists of the highest scoring titles in the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes.Lester’s Are We...

Apple reveals 2014 top iBooks downloads for UK, US

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The Apple iBooks store has released lists of the most downloaded books of 2014 in the UK and the US. Reflecting the popularity of film tie-ins, the highest selling paid...

Dyer to replace Strout as SWF executive director 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the appointment of Jo Dyer as its new executive director. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, current executive director Ben Strout will leave the...

In brief

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
NLA exhibition wins Canberra and Capital Region Tourism AwardThe National Library of Australia (NLA) has won an award for its Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia exhibition at the...

International library news

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
NY Court hears dispute over Google Digital Library ProjectA lawyer for the Authors Guild has urged a federal appeals court in New York to force Google to reward authors for...

Arts Tasmania 2015 individual artists grants announced

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The successful applicants for Arts Tasmania’s 2015 Individual Artists Program have been announced. Several writers were among the successful applicants to share in $445,083 worth of funding. The successful applicants...

HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...

Social Club Books to close

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Social Club Books has announced it will close at the end of January 2015. Established in 1983, the business runs a mail-order catalogue and a retail site at www.scb.com.au. Managing...

Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2014 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2014.The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2015 will be published on 7 January. Any material emailed to classifieds@thorpe.com.au during the...

RiP Maurice Saxby 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Author, scholar and former national president of the CBCA Maurice Saxby has died, aged 89.Margaret Hamilton from the Children’s Book Council of Australia writes: ‘The Children’s Book Council of Australia...

Christmas closing list 2014 (updated) 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
  Last day of business in 2014 First day of business in 2015 Allen & Unwin Wednesday 24 December (Closing 12pm) Monday 5 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed public holidays...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
‘The Book Council declares to the nation that Australian writing matters and that building future generations of writers and readers is vital to a civilised and free society’—Australian Publishers Association...

Kobo reveals reading habits of Australian readers 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Kobo has released an overview of its statistics on the reading habits of Australian ebook readers.Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (Orion) is listed as the number one bestseller in the Kobo...

Queensland Literary Awards 2014 winners announced

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of the Queensland Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the State Library of Queensland.The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Narrow Road to the...

PM’s Literary Awards 2014 winners announced

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.The winners in each category are:Fiction (joint winners) A World...

Hachette to trial book sales via Twitter

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
In the US, Hachette will sell a limited number of its titles directly through Twitter in partnership with ecommerce venture Gumroad, reports Publishers Weekly. From 11 December, three books will be...

Avoca Hill Bookstore opens in Melbourne 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Avoca Hill Bookstore opened in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra on 5 December. Book buyer Jewelene Barrile told Books+Publishing that ‘“the bookstore” has returned to South Yarra’. Situated at...

Cooke resigns from New Holland

Monday, 8 December 2014
New Zealand publisher New Holland has announced that Belinda Cooke has resigned from the company after 16 years as managing director.The publisher said in a statement that Cooke is ‘planning...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 8 December 2014
What a Croc! (Hachette), a collection of the ‘funniest, craziest, wittiest, most memorable’ front pages from the NT News newspaper, is the highest new entry in this week’s bestsellers chart....

Inaugural Erica Bell Foundation Awards winners announced 

Monday, 8 December 2014
The winners of the inaugural Erica Bell Foundation Awards for excellence in Tasmanian literature and medical research have been announced.Academic and Fullers Bookshop bookseller Adam Ouston has won the Literature Award for...

 

 

 

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