Hachette to buy Black Dog & Leventhal
Monday, 24 November 2014
In the US, Hachette (HBG) has agreed to buy independent publisher Black Dog & Leventhal (BD&L), reports Publishers Weekly. Black Dog & Leventhal, which specialises in ‘creative’ nonfiction and illustrated titles,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 24 November 2014
Matthew Reilly’s latest novel The Great Zoo of China (Macmillan) has debuted in second place on the bestsellers chart and is this week’s highest new entry. It’s behind The Long Haul (Jeff Kinney, Puffin),...
Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2014 winners announced
Monday, 24 November 2014
The Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 21 November.Perth writer Judith Bridge won...
Ladybird children’s imprint to drop gender-labelling
Friday, 21 November 2014
In the UK, Penguin Random House children’s book imprint Ladybird will no longer publish books labelled ‘for boys’ and ‘for girls’ in response to a campaign against gender-labelling, reports the...
National Book Award 2014 winners announced
Friday, 21 November 2014
In the US, the winners of the 2014 National Book Award have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Redeployment (Phil Klay, Canongate), a short-story collection about US soldiers who...
Oyster launches online literary journal
Friday, 21 November 2014
Ebook subscription service Oyster has launched a free online journal called the Oyster Review, which will publish original essays, reviews and interviews on books and writing, reports Publishers Weekly. Oyster’s...
Hachette acquires self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series
Friday, 21 November 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired a self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series from Brisbane brother and sister Nicholas and Alison Lochel.The four-book ‘Zarkora’ series ‘is the story of brothers Neleik and Ervine Fyrelit,...
WAYRBA 2014 winners announced
Friday, 21 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The winning books are:Picture books The Three Bears (Sort of) (Yvonne Morrison, illus by Donovan Bixley, Scholastic...
Spineless Wonders launches new short fiction series
Friday, 21 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has announced plans for a new series that combines short stories with authors’ reflections on them.Publisher Bronwyn Mehan told Books+Publishing that the ‘SW Fiction Plus’ series...
ILF launches parenting guide, republishes Australia’s first Aboriginal children’s book
Thursday, 20 November 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will launch its latest community literacy project, a resource to help parents prepare their children for school, in Broken Hill this week.Ready for School in...
‘Birdee’ creators launch print edition of teen website
Thursday, 20 November 2014
The creators of teen website Birdee have announced they will publish a ‘quarterly tabloid newspaper for girls’ after research revealed there was demand for a print publication among its readers.The...
US library develops ereader app
Thursday, 20 November 2014
In the US, the Queens Library in New York has developed its own ereader app for Android and iOS, reports Good Ereader. The app gives users access to the library’s...
OUP partners with ed-tech start-up program
Thursday, 20 November 2014
In the UK, Oxford University Press (OUP) has partnered with education technology start-up ‘accelerator program’ Emerge Education, reports the Bookseller. As part of the partnership, OUP will sponsor a working...
ACT Book of the Year Award 2014 shortlist announced
Thursday, 20 November 2014
The ACT Book of the Year Award 2014 shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: 18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution (Scott Bridges, Editia) Earthmasters: The Dawn...
Spineless Wonders launches live readings with professional actors
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has launched a new series of events featuring live readings of short fiction by professional actors.‘Little Fictions’ will be held once a month at Sydney’s...
New Sydney bookshop selling zines and ‘independent publications’
Thursday, 20 November 2014
A new bookshop specialising in zines and ‘independent publications’ opened in Sydney in late October.PRESS, located in The Corner Cooperative gallery in Chippendale, stocks mostly self-published zines, photobooks and artists’...
UK protest group launches Amazon boycott
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
In the UK, protest group Amazon Anonymous has launched a campaign urging consumers not to shop at Amazon this Christmas, reports the Bookseller. The group is asking shoppers to sign...
Costa Book Awards 2014 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2014 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The books shortlisted in the novel category are: The Lives of Others (Neel Mukherjee, Chatto &...
Queensland Literary Awards 2014 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
The shortlisted titles for the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ). The shortlisted titles are:Fiction All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld,...
UNSW uses piracy-fine proceeds for student amenities
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
The University of NSW is fining students for piracy and using the money raised to improve student amenities rather than giving it to the copyright owners, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Since 2008, UNSW...
International library news
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
US library develops ereader appIn the US, the Queens Library in New York has developed its own ereader app for Android and iOS, reports Good Ereader. The app gives users...
NSW public libraries recognised in marketing awards
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
The winners of this year’s NSW Public Library Marketing Awards have been announced. Dubbo’s Macquarie Regional Library has won an award for its Guinness World Record attempt at ‘the most...
ABC Retail launches website for smartphones
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
ABC Retail has launched a new website that is optimised for smartphones. ‘Having a mobile retail experience for ABC Shop was a critical element in ABC Retail’s customer focus strategy where we...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
‘Bundling has been talked about for some time, so we’re delighted to be in a position to test the theory, and see how results measure up against expectations’—HarperCollins Australia CEO...
Over one million visitors attend Sharjah International Book Fair
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
In the United Arab Emirates, the 33rd annual Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) received a record of 1.4 million visitors to the fair, which ran from 5 to 15 November,...
Penguin Random House launches audio app
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Penguin Random House has launched a new audio app called ‘Volumes’, reports Galleycat. The free app allows readers to listen to audio clips from authors including Jodi Picoult, Sophie Kinsella...
SPN conference travels to Sydney; Australian book sales up 2.4% reports BookScan
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
The Small Press Network (SPN) delivered its third Independent Publishing Conference—and its first outside of Melbourne—at the Federation Conference Centre in Sydney on 13 and 14 November.‘We kept being told...
A&U acquires novel on F Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has signed a novel following the final years of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald, reports the Bookseller.A&U acquired UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights to...
Gentill tops bestsellers at seventh annual Crime & Justice Festival
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Sulari Gentill’s A Murder Unmentioned (Pantera Press) and Michael Mori’s In the Company of Cowards (Viking) were the bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles at the seventh annual Crime & Justice Festival run by Readers...
‘How to be Both’ wins Goldsmiths prize
Monday, 17 November 2014
How to be Both (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton) has won the £10,000 (A$17,890) Goldsmiths prize, a literary award established to ‘reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new...
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