QBD invites customers to design a bookmark
Thursday, 13 November 2014
QBD has launched a competition to design a bookmark that will be sold in the book chain’s stores. Customers can enter the Make Your Bookmark competition by submitting their designs on the...
ABC Retail launches website for smartphones
Thursday, 13 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 recognise...
Flanagan shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) has been shortlisted for the 2014 Waterstones Book of the Year in the UK.Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel is one of...
Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award 2014 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP) Poetic Justice:...
Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Scarlet Stiletto Awards has been announced.Twenty-seven short stories by 23 women have been nominated for the awards, which recognise short crime stories written by Australian women. The list...
The Book Depository in talks to establish local supply
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Amazon-owned, UK-based online retailer the Book Depository is working to establish a direct supply with publishers in Australia.Books+Publishing understands that the retailer has been speaking to a number of Australian...
FT Business Book of the Year Award winner announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
In the UK, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Belknap Press) has won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Piketty’s book, a ‘nearly 700-page exploration of economic processes that...
Audible launches free audiobook promotion on its Australian store
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Amazon-owned audiobook retailer Audible has launched a promotion on its Australian website offering a free audiobook collection.The audible.com.au site, which went live on 15 January, is offering the free bundled audiobook #ListenUp Collection,...
Debut novel wins 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
In Canada, Sean Michaels’ debut novel Us Conductors (Random House Canada) has won the C$100,000 (A$101,400) 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, reports Publishers Weekly. The judges said Us Conductors ‘is based...
‘The Lifted Brow’ appoints new print editors
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has appointed three new editors for its flagship print magazine. Jointly editing TLB in 2015 will be founding editor of TLB’s ‘Middlebrow’ arts and culture...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.Best Resource in Primary Education went to Connected 2013 - Level 2 I Spy, Level...
Down wins inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition for her short story ‘Pressure Okay’. The competition, judged by Helen Garner and sponsored by Text Publishing,...
Xoum memoir optioned for film
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The film rights for Lenuta Hellen Nadolu’s memoir Give Me Courage (Xoum) have been optioned for film by producer Stuart Quin in association with production company Ealing Studios. Publisher Xoum told...
KOALAs 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced.The winning titles and honour books in each category are:Picture storybooks The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)...
Reading Matters 2015 authors announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
US authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Farizan and UK author Sally Gardner are among the guests attending next year’s Reading Matters conference.The 2015 conference, which is presented by the...
‘Fish-Hair Woman’ wins Philippine National Book Award
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press) has won a Philippine National Book Award in the category of Best Novel in a Foreign Language (English). Bobis is a Phillippines-born, Australia-based author and...
Phillips resigns as Macmillan director to launch consulting business
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
After 42 years with Pan Macmillan, Macmillan director Peter Phillips has resigned from the publisher to run his own book industry consulting company.Phillips told Books+Publishing that his company Outside of...
International library news
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Petition underway to save London’s Imperial War Museum LibraryIn the UK, over 4300 people have signed a petition to stop the closure of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Library, reports...
ARC grant awarded for expansion of Australasian Legal History Libraries
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The Australasian Legal Information Institute’s (AustLII) proposed expansion of the Australasian Legal History Libraries has received matched funding in the latest round of grants announced by the Australian Research Council...
Australian Red Cross donates archives to Melbourne Uni
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Photographs, records and other objects from the Australian Red Cross national and Victorian archives and heritage collection have been donated to the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA), reports the Age.Australian...
Butler joins the Cameron Creswell Agency, Cameron’s Management
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Freelance editor and publishing consultant Jo Butler has joined the Cameron Creswell Agency and Cameron’s Management as a literary agent.Butler joins the company on 4 November to replace Sophie Hamley,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
‘I would warmly welcome Amazon or The Book Depository setting up a warehouse in Australia because it would be a fair fight’—Pages & Pages co-owner Jon Page responds to the news...
Brisbane Airport offers Brisbane-related books to G20 delegates
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Brisbane Airport Corporation has selected 20 books about Brisbane and by Brisbane authors that will be displayed in the departure lounge for G20 delegates and media to take home, reports...
Author alleges plagiarism in Picador bio
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Author Paul Gorman has alleged that Vivienne Westwood, a biography of the British fashion designer written by herself and Ian Kelly (Picador), plagiarises his book The Look: Adventures in Rock...
Inaugural Daphne Award winners announced
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
The winners have been announced for the inaugural Daphne Awards, launched by literary website Bookslut to reappraise the results of controversial book awards starting in 1963. The fiction award was...
French wins NSW Senior Australian of the Year
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Australian author Jackie French has been presented with this year’s NSW Senior Australian of the Year Award.French is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-15 and the author of over 140...
Blurb launches ‘Dream Team’ marketplace of publishing experts
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Self-publishing service provider Blurb has launched its ‘Dream Team’ marketplace to help authors discover freelance editors and designers to finalise their books, reports Venture Beat. The company aims to simplify the...
Amazon releases ‘best books’ of 2014
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Amazon has released its ‘best books’ lists for 2014, and has ranked Australian author Liane Moriarty’s novel Big Little Lies (Pan Macmillan) in ninth position in its top 100 list. Editors at Amazon selected the...
Melbourne City of Literature launches travel fund
Monday, 10 November 2014
The Melbourne City of Literature office has announced a new $3000 travel fund to support writers, editors, publishers and librarians.The funding will enable anyone working in Victoria’s literary sector ‘to...
Ferris wins Dylan Thomas Prize
Monday, 10 November 2014
US author Joshua Ferris has won the International Dylan Thomas Prize for his novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking). Ferris was presented with the £30,000 (A$55,115) prize...
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