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Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
‘Publishers and booksellers face an inherent paradox: they offer specialized skills in a world where everyone can now publish and sell a book’—Foong Ling Kong presents a comprehensive overview of...

SLNSW revises plan for changes to Mitchell Library 

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
In response to community feedback, the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced a revised plan for its forthcoming changes to the Mitchell Library. According to a statement from the...

In brief 

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Brisbane City Council Libraries releases annual book club listBrisbane City Council Libraries has released its annual Top 40 Book Club Reads to help book clubs with their reading selections. The list,...

Quirky Oz titles in demand at LBF 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
This year’s London Book Fair, which wound up on 10 April, was ‘undeniably buzzy’, with international publishers ‘keen to mine Australian lists for the next Rosie Project’, reports Allen &...

APA restructures office 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Australian Publishers Association (APA) CEO Michael Gordon-Smith has confirmed the organisation has made changes to its office staffing.Industry professional development manager Dee Read, manager of member services and administration Kaye...

Galley Club to continue, MacDonald interim president 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
After a general meeting held last week, it appears the publishing and printing association the Galley Club will continue to operate.The club, which was established in the late 1970s, looked...

Amazon signs agreement with Swedish database company 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Amazon has signed an agreement with Swedish database company Bokrondellen that gives Amazon access to metadata from most of the publishing houses in Sweden, reports the Bookseller. The agreement was finalised in early...

Pulitzer Prize 2014 winners announced 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York City on 14 April. The winner in the Fiction category was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Abacus), which judges described as...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold the film/TV option to Anna Krien’s Night Games to Samantha Lang at Wild Light Films.Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare has sold Slovenian rights to four books in...

Text Publishing celebrates 20 years 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Text Publishing is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.The Melbourne-based publisher will mark the occasion at its Melbourne Writers Festival party, which publisher Michael Heyward told Books+Publishing has ‘become a...

RiP Sue Townsend 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
British author Sue Townsend has died, aged 68. Townsend was the creator of the bestselling ‘Adrian Mole’ series, beginning with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (Penguin) in...

RiP Doris Pilkington Garimara 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Author Doris Pilkington Garimara has died, aged 76. University of Queensland Press writes:‘Indigenous writer Doris Pilkington Garimara passed away peacefully on April 10, surrounded by family in Perth. Doris was...

Struggle street: Justin Heazlewood on ‘Funemployed’ 

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Justin Heazlewood—aka The Bedroom Philosopher—is the author of Funemployed (Affirm Press, June), a memoir-guidebook about working in the Australian arts industry. You can read a review of the book here....

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 14 April 2014
TV chef Pete Evans’ cookbook Healthy Every Day (Plum) has moved from outside the top 10 last week to first place in this week’s bestsellers chart, ahead of I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah...

Leading Edge Books Benalla to close 

Monday, 14 April 2014
Leading Edge Books Benalla in country Victoria will close in May. The bookstore was opened in May 1999 by Ron Schulz and his wife Bev. At its high point it employed three...

Thwaites Wainwright Prize shortlist announced 

Monday, 14 April 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Thwaites Wainwright Prize has been announced by publisher Frances Lincoln and the National Trust. The £5000 (A$8900) award recognises the best UK...

Vogel shortlist announced

Monday, 14 April 2014
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have been announced.The shortlisted titles, chosen from 100 entries, are: The Collapse (Aidan Anderson) Dream England (Stephanie Bishop) The Windy Season...

Wordstorm 2014 program released 

Friday, 11 April 2014
The program for the Northern Territory writers festival Wordstorm 2014 has been released. Running in Darwin from 29 May to 1 June, the festival will feature 70 writers, including 40...

‘Overland’ launches Story Wine Prize 

Friday, 11 April 2014
Literary journal Overland has launched a new short story prize. The Overland Story Wine Prize is for original short fiction of up to 1000 words in length. The winning story will be published on...

Amazon acquires digital comics platform comiXology 

Friday, 11 April 2014
Amazon has acquired comiXology, a digital comics platform ‘that has been instrumental in driving the growth and popularity of digital comics’, reports Publishers Weekly. The deal will be finalised in...

Africa39 project authors announced 

Friday, 11 April 2014
The line-up of authors for Africa39, a project that celebrates 39 fiction authors aged under 40 from Africa and its diaspora, was announced this week at the London Book Fair....

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2014 longlists announced

Friday, 11 April 2014
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Hopkins and Winter launch new publishing company 

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Former HarperCollins nonfiction publisher Roz Hopkins and former HarperCollins book designer Natalie Winter have launched the new publishing company Captain Honey.Hopkins told Books+Publishing she and Winter started the company to...

Lonely Planet develops travel accessories range 

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Lonely Planet has developed a range of travel accessories that are now available for sale in bookstores. Branded with the Lonely Planet logo, the items include neck pillows, travel adaptors, luggage scales, combination...

De Kretser shortlisted for 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award 

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.De Kretser’s novel is one of 10 shortlisted for the award. The full...

 

 

 

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