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...
Apple reveals 2014 top-selling iBook titles for Australia
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The Apple iBooks store has released lists of its most downloaded fiction and nonfiction titles in Australia in 2014. The four highest selling fiction books have each had a film...
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...
Government to establish new Book Council of Australia, industry campaigns and data collection among its tasks
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced during the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards on 8 December that the government will establish a new Book Council of Australia.A joint press release from the...
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....
‘The Lifted Brow’ launches experimental nonfiction prize
Monday, 8 December 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced a new nonfiction prize to coincide with its print magazine relaunch in March 2015. The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental...
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...
Costello debut novel voted ‘book of the year’ in Irish awards
Monday, 8 December 2014
Academy Street, a debut novel by Mary Costello (Text), has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2014, reports the Bookseller. The book won the ‘novel...
Barnes & Noble buys back Microsoft’s share of Nook Media
Monday, 8 December 2014
Barnes & Noble (B&N) has bought back Microsoft’s share of Nook Media for US$125 million (A$150 million) with a combination of cash and stock, reports Publishers Weekly. Microsoft originally invested US$300...
ABIAs 2015 date and location announced
Monday, 8 December 2014
The 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on 21 May 2015. The awards will be held at Doltone House in Pyrmont during the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which runs...
Joint winners announced for 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry
Monday, 8 December 2014
Tracy Ryan and Jill Jones are the joint winners of the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry. Ryan and Jones were chosen from a shortlist of 10 and will...
Inaugural ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 December 2014
Ten books are in the running for UK book publication the Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. They are: Goose (Dawn O’Porter, Hot Key Books), Say Her Name (James Dawson, Hot...
Wattpad to add paid content
Friday, 5 December 2014
Online writing platform Wattpad has announced it is adding paid content to its website to make it ‘simpler for readers to financially support the writers they like’. ‘Where we introduce...
Hachette signs multi-book deal with FitzSimons
Friday, 5 December 2014
Hachette Australia has announced it has signed a ‘multi-book publishing deal’ with bestselling nonfiction author Peter FitzSimons.‘This signing reunites Peter with one of his very first publishers, Hachette’s Non-Fiction Publisher...
Arnott wins 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 5 December 2014
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has won the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.Arnott, who was shortlisted for the prize in 2013, was announced as the winner at the Express...
‘Triumph and Demise’ wins 2014 Walkley Book Award
Friday, 5 December 2014
Paul Kelly has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation (MUP).Kelly received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence...
Brooks awarded Australia Council literature fellowship
Friday, 5 December 2014
Poet, novelist and essayist David Brooks has been awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for literature.Brooks will use to the fellowship, worth $100,000 over two years, to ‘undertake research and development...
Okri wins 2014 Bad S-x in Fiction Award for ‘The Age of Magic’
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Booker Prize winner Ben Okri has won this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award for his 10th novel The Age of Magic (Head of Zeus). Okri’s book was...
Bezos on book pricing, failed business ventures and Hachette
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has spoken about book pricing, the company’s failed business ventures and its dispute with Hachette in an widely publicised ‘in conversation’ at Business Insider’s Ignition conference in New York. ‘Book...
Australia Post to offer permanent Saturday delivery for Express Post parcels
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Australia Post will offer permanent Saturday delivery for Express Post parcels to ‘specific delivery areas’ from 9 January 2015, the organisation announced in a statement.The service is optional and will...
‘Capital’ magazine and ACT Writers Centre launch short fiction series
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Canberra-based lifestyle magazine Capital has announced a new publishing project with the ACT Writers Centre called ‘Capital Stories’. The project will ‘regularly publish’ short stories by writers from the Canberra region...
Melbourne extends Christmas trading hours
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Melbourne retailers are allowed to trade for extended hours in the lead-up to Christmas, reports Inside Retail.The Strand Melbourne, Melbourne Central, Emporium Melbourne, QV Melbourne, H&M at Melbourne’s GPO, and department...
Goodreads Choice Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2014 have been announced. The winners include Landline by Rainbow Rowell (Orion) in the Best Fiction category and The Opposite...
World Book Night 2015 UK and Ireland titles announced
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
The titles selected for next year’s World Book Night in the UK and Ireland have been announced. Special editions of 20 books will be handed out by volunteers on 23...
ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ announces Classic Beach Books list
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
The ABC’s The Book Club announced the results of its Classic Beach Books poll on 2 December.The top 10 book are: The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough, HarperCollins) The Girl with...
Penguin Hotline to offer gift book recommendations
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
In the UK, Penguin has created a Penguin Hotline to offer gift book recommendations, reports Shelf Awareness. The hotline, staffed by more than 300 Penguin employees, was inspired by the Butterball Turkey...
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