Shortlists for 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards announced
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards have been announced.The awards aim to ‘recognise, reward and promote writing by ACT region authors’ that has been published by...
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...
SLNSW launches ‘Rediscovering Indigenous Languages’ website
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has launched a new website offering access to the records of 100 Indigenous Australian languages, many of which are considered to be...
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...
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...
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