The comedy in extremis: Anson Cameron on ‘The Last Pulse’
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Anson Cameron’s latest novel The Last Pulse (Vintage, December) is ‘much more than a political comedy about water policy’, writes reviewer Louise Fay. She spoke to the author.You’re from Shepparton...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in November to February. Included is a four-star review of Emergence, the first book in a new ‘splosions and gore’...
McClintock joins Booked Out to head new ‘sister agency’
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Speakers agency Booked Out plans to open a ‘sister agency’ in 2015. The new business, to be called Speaking Out, will cater to the agency’s growing client base in the...
WritingWA, State Library of WA team up for new festival
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
WritingWA and the State Library of Western Australia have announced they will partner to facilitate a new festival in Perth. The Disrupted Festival of Ideas will run from 31 October...
Independent booksellers’ children’s catalogue launched
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The Australian Independent Bookseller’s Children’s Catalogue for 2014 has been launched.Great Books for Kids features 34 Australian children’s and YA titles, among 87 recommended titles or series, and also features...
Blackwell’s launches academic ebook platform
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
In the UK, academic bookseller and library supplier Blackwell’s has launched a new e-book platform for students in Beta. The platform, which the Bookseller reports is a ‘multi-million pound’ investment for...
Kobo partners with Bol.com in Netherlands and Belgium
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Kobo has partnered with Bol.com, the largest provider of ebooks in the Netherlands and Belgium. The partnership means Kobo’s ereaders and tablets are available from the bol.com site and bol.com...
Foley to leave Hachette
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Bernadette Foley, publisher at Hachette Australia, has announced she is leaving the company. Foley told Books+Publishing that, after 10 years at Hachette and 25 in the publishing industry, she was...
Archivists campaign against possible merger of State Records and SA Library
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) has launched a public campaign against a possible merger of the State Records and the State Library of South Australia, reports the ABC. State...
International library news
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Chicago, NY, Hawaii shortlisted for Obama’s Presidential Library ProjectFour universities in Chicago, New York and Honolulu have been shortlisted as potential sites for Barack Obama’s future presidential library, reports abcNews....
NLA to preserve web plug-in ‘Stop Tony Meow’
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Browser extension Stop Tony Meow has been selected for preservation by the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) web archive Pandora, reports SBS. Pandora (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia)...
Lower-than-expected numbers at Book Expo Australia, plans underway for 2015 event
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Audience numbers were lower than expected at Book Expo Australia’s inaugural event at the Sydney Showgrounds on 29-31 August.‘Unfortunately we didn’t get as many people through the gates as the...
Book adaptations among AWGIE winners
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Book adaptations are among winners of the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing, presented by Australian Writers’ Guild. ANZAC Girls, a six-part miniseries adaptated from the book The...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
‘I think it’s great that their service is getting some traction here before Amazon’s kicks off—more competition is a good thing’—Black Inc. CEO Sophy Williams on the publisher’s decision to...
Whitley Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winners of the 2014 Whitley Awards.The Whitley Medal was awarded for two ‘substantial contributions to Australian zoological literature’. The joint winners are:...
Educational Publishing Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Educational Publishing Awards were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 17 September. Macmillan Education Australia was named Publisher of the Year for...
‘The Brothers Quibble’ selected for 2015 National Simultaneous Storytime
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The Brothers Quibble by Aaron Blabey (Viking) has been selected for next year’s National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), to be held at 11am on Wednesday 27 May.The annual event, held by...
Watkins, Hamley appointed nonfiction publishers at Hachette, Foley to leave
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Hachette has announced two new appointments to its nonfiction publishing team.Robert Watkins, commissioning editor for Hachette’s lifestyle list, has been promoted to nonfiction publisher.‘Robert has made a huge impact in...
Prose and poetry must be approved by Maldives government before publication
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the Maldives, new regulations require all prose and poetry be approved by the government prior to publication, reports Minivan News. The ‘Regulations on approving literature published in the Maldives’,...
HarperCollins introduces watermarking for ebooks
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
In the US, HarperCollins is using watermarking technology to increase the security of its ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. According to chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi, HarperCollins has adopted Digimarc’s Guardian...
Government to fund musical adaptation of ‘The Silver Donkey’
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
The Australian Government will fund a musical theatre production of Sonya Hartnett’s novel The Silver Donkey (Puffin) to commemorate the Anzac Centenary.The government announced that $100,000 will be given to...
ALIA conference kicks off
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
The 2014 Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) national conference main program kicks off today.The event, which is being held at the Pullman hotel in Albert Park, Melbourne, began with...
Being an editor in New York
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Allen & Unwin’s Susannah Chambers spent three months in New York as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. In this extract from her report she examines the ‘notable differences’...
Naipaul dropped from Ubud after ‘11th hour requests’
Monday, 15 September 2014
VS Naipaul has been dropped from this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) after the festival was unable to meet his ‘11th hour requests’, organisers have announced. UWRF founder...
Johnson to leave S&S
Monday, 15 September 2014
Lou Johnson, managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, has resigned and will leave the company after a ‘smooth transition to new leadership’.‘Lou has decided to seek challenges in her...
Vook acquires Byliner
Monday, 15 September 2014
In the US, digital publishing service provider Vook has acquired digital publisher Byliner, reports Publishers Weekly. Byliner’s catalogue of 60-70 longform nonfiction and fiction titles and small team of staff will be...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 September 2014
The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. It’s ahead of Personal (Lee Child, Bantam)...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2014 shortlist announced
Monday, 15 September 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Eleven Grams of Trouble’ by Frank Bowden (Inside Story) ‘TB and...
‘NYT Book Review’ adds 12 new bestseller lists
Friday, 12 September 2014
The New York Times Book Review has announced it will publish 12 new bestseller lists, reports Publishers Weekly. The new categories, which will be rotated in groups of four on a weekly basis,...
Co-op to open stores at James Cook University
Friday, 12 September 2014
The campus bookselling chain the Co-op has announced it will open its first two stores at Queensland’s James Cook University.The stores will be located at the university’s Cairns and Townsville...
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