Government releases discussion paper on online copyright infringement
Friday, 1 August 2014
The Federal Government is seeking feedback on its ‘Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper’, released by the Attorney General’s department on 30 July, which is aimed at stopping Australians from unlawfully...
Sydney Uni launches Reading Australian Literature program
Friday, 1 August 2014
Australian authors will reflect on their favourite Australian literary titles and discuss their value to society in a new series of public lectures at the University of Sydney. The inaugural Reading...
PEN Literary Awards 2014 winners announced
Friday, 1 August 2014
PEN America has announced winners for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. The unpublished novel ‘And West is West’ by Ron Childress has won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction,...
Stories within worlds: Garth Nix on ‘Clariel’
Friday, 1 August 2014
‘The long-awaited prequel to Garth Nix’s “Old Kingdom” series (Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen) is going to make a lot of readers very, very happy,’ writes reviewer Holly Harper. She spoke to...
Macmillan US makes frontlist ebooks available to libraries
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Macmillan US is adding frontlist ebooks published in the previous 12 months to its public library elending project, reports DigitalBookWorld. The addition of frontlist titles increases the number of Macmillan...
Amazon outlines objectives in Hachette dispute
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Amazon has outlined its objectives in its dispute with Hachette US over sales terms in a post on its Kindle forum. A key objective is ‘lower ebook prices’, says the...
Ubud announces 2014 program
Thursday, 31 July 2014
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 11th festival, which will run from 1-5 October in Bali, Indonesia.Among the line-up are a number...
Ashton wins 2014 RITA Award
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 RITA Awards. Among the winners was Australian author Leah Ashton, who picked up the award for Short Contemporary Romance...
Baileys Women’s Prize names ‘most life-changing novels written by women’
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has named the 20 ‘most life-changing novels written by women’, as voted by the public through the prize’s #ThisBook twitter campaign. From ‘thousands’ of...
Melbourne’s All Star Comics wins international retailer award
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Melbourne comic bookstore All Star Comics has been named joint winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award at the San Diego Comic-Con. The bookstore shared the award with...
Government department libraries may be outsourced, leaked documents reveal
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Leaked documents from a meeting of senior government librarians has revealed that ‘many departments’ libraries have been, or may be, outsourced’, reports the Canberra Times.The documents also reveal that ‘senior...
New library opens in Rockingham, WA
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
In Western Australia, the City of Rockingham’s Mary Davies Library and Community Centre has opened its doors to the public, reports the West Australian. Named in honour of late local resident...
New residencies announced for NZ writers
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
New Zealand writers can apply for two three-month residencies to write essays of about 10,000 words on New Zealand life and culture. The D’Arcy Writers’ Residencies are located on Waiheke Island...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
‘You might expect jealousy and conflict not unlike the plots and twists of the stories they write, but this group of authors believe forming a group to support each other...
MWF announces digital reporters, ‘geo-fiction’ app
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced its digital reporters for 2014. With the support of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, each reporter will cover events at MWF and have access...
Apple acquires ‘Pandora for books’
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Apple has acquired book analytics and recommendation company BookLamp, described as a ‘Pandora for books’, reports Techcrunch. The company, which was purchased for between US$10 and US$15 million, is best...
Australian writers shortlisted for Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Eleven Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send an Australian writer to...
Concerns raised over author royalties from ebook subscription services
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SOA) and the Association of Authors’ Agents (AAA) have expressed concerned over author royalties from ebook subscription services and are calling for a debate into publisher...
WA prem’s awards 2014 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 28 July by State Library of Western Australia CEO and state librarian Margaret Allen. The shortlisted...
A decade in dresses: Lorelei Vashti on ‘Dress, Memory’
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Dress, Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses (A&U, September) chronicles Lorelei Vashi’s coming-of-age era with a focus on her vintage dress collection. ‘Ultimately it’s the story of a...
Samsung closes Australian book content business
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Samsung has closed its Australian book content business as part of a company-wide move. ‘Globally, Samsung Electronics closed Samsung Books in Samsung Hub,’ a company spokesperson told Books+Publishing.As a result of...
Wellington independent Capital Books to close
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Capital Books in Wellington, New Zealand, will close at the end of August, reports the Dominion Post. The store, which has traded for 18 years, is owned by Tim and...
A&U celebrates 100 years of ‘Allen & Unwin’
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Allen & Unwin has celebrated the centenary of its name by publishing a ‘small hardback history’ called A Hundred Years of Allen & Unwin 1914-2014. The book, written by A&U...
Frankfurt sends delegates to gamescon in Cologne
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Frankfurt Book Fair’s (FBF) StoryDrive conference will send delegates to the computer-game trade fair gamescon in Cologne in August, FBF said in a statement. Ten representatives of international publishing houses and literary agencies...
RiP Michael Gifkins
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
New Zealand literary agent Michael Gifkins has died, aged 68.Former Penguin NZ publishing director Geoff Walker writes:‘For many years New Zealand’s leading literary agent, Michael died yesterday after suffering from prostate cancer...
New writers’ studio opens in Melbourne
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
A new writers’ studio has opened in Collingwood in inner-city Melbourne.The Good Copy, which moved into its studio space earlier this year, describes itself as ‘a writing studio, a shop, a...
RiP Jo Goodman
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Jo Goodman, former president of the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, has died, aged 73. The CBCA Victorian Branch committee writes:‘The Children’s Book Council of Australia...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish rights to Six Days in Leningrad (Paullina Simons).Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold North American rights to Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World...
International library news
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Macmillan US makes frontlist ebooks available to librariesMacmillan US is adding frontlist ebooks published in the previous 12 months to its public library elending project, reports DigitalBookWorld. The addition of frontlist...
Australian rural fiction authors launch promotional website
Monday, 28 July 2014
A group of authors has launched a website to promote Australian rural fiction.The website, An Australian Rural Romance, ‘showcases the genre’s emerging, established and award-winning authors published by Australian publishers’,...
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