Random House launches website, app for crime and thrillers
Friday, 14 March 2014
Random House Australia has launched a website devoted to crime and thriller books.The new site, which went live in early March, features news, reviews, author interviews, staff recommendations and other...
Connolly to lead combined Penguin Random House operations in South Africa
Friday, 14 March 2014
Penguin Random House has appointed Steve Connolly as managing director of Penguin Book South Africa, a role that will involve him leading the company and Random House Struik through their integration process,...
Penguin to publish military Popular Penguins
Friday, 14 March 2014
Penguin Books Australia will publish a set of 10 war-themed Popular Penguins later this month to commemorate the centenary of World War I. The War Popular Penguins will feature a...
Boffins to relocate, expand range
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Boffins Bookshop is relocating to a larger store on William Street in Perth’s CBD in early April and is expanding its range to include trade fiction and children’s books. The...
Attendance up at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2014; Kent tops bestsellers list
Thursday, 13 March 2014
‘Audiences were up’ and sessions were ‘consistently at capacity’ at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said that final attendance figures were still being calculated. The event ran...
Guests announced for Australian Writers’ Week and Australia-China Publishing Forum 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
The Australian Embassy in Beijing has announced the line-up of guests for its seventh annual Australian Writers’ Week in China, which runs from 9-23 March in conjunction with the Australia-China Publishing...
Ebooks by Sainsbury’s sells aNobii brand to Mondadori
Thursday, 13 March 2014
In the UK, eBooks by Sainsbury’s has sold the brand of ebook website aNobii to Italian publisher Mondadori, reports the Bookseller. On 11 March, the aNobii board, which includes HarperCollins and Penguin Random...
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize for children’s publishing
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, Hinkler Books and Walker Books have been nominated in the Oceania category of this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year....
New award categories, organising committee for 2014 ABIAs
Thursday, 13 March 2014
A number of new awards will be presented for the first time at this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), while several other awards will no longer be part of...
Correction: Hachette Australia 2013 results
Thursday, 13 March 2014
In an article in the Weekly Book Newsletter on 5 March, Books+Publishing incorrectly reported that Hachette Australia recorded an increase in print sales in 2013. According to the statement from...
Melbourne council forms advisory committee to oversee new Library amid community concerns
Thursday, 13 March 2014
In Melbourne, the Hobsons Bay Council has agreed to form an advisory subcommittee to oversee the development of a new public library in Newport after a community campaign was launched...
International Library News
Thursday, 13 March 2014
UK and French libraries launch pilot ‘twinning project’Church Street Library in London, UK, and Place des Fêtes Library in Paris, France, have launched a pilot ‘twinning project’, reports the Guardian....
Quote of the week
Thursday, 13 March 2014
‘No other Anglosphere nation has a little magazine scene like ours, factoring in the relative size of our local audience’—newly appointed Island fiction editor Geordie Williamson reflects on Australia’s lit...
Janaczewska among Windham Campbell Prize winners
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Australian playwright Noëlle Janaczewska is one of eight writers to win the 2014 Windham Campbell Prizes, presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Janaczewska’s plays...
King wins RBC Taylor Prize for nonfiction
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In Canada, Thomas King has won this year’s RBC Taylor Prize for his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (University of Minnesota Press)....
‘LA Times’ Festival of Books recognises local booksellers
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In the US, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will be held this year from 12-13 April, will add IndieBound ‘buy’ buttons to its website alongside the existing...
Maxine Beneba Clarke wins 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Clarke was announced as the winner at a Writers Victoria event in Melbourne on 11 March. Writers Victoria said...
ACT Book of the Year Award 2013 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The shortlist for the 2013 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Canberra (Paul Daley, NewSouth) Island Earth: New and Selected Poems...
‘Huxtabook’ author to design gala menu at ABA conference
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that Daniel Wilson, chef and owner of Melbourne restaurants Huxtable and Huxtaburger and author of the Huxtabook cookbook (Hardie Grant), will design the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
SalesFiction—Text Publishing has sold German rights to the sequel to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to S. Fischer Verlag; Macedonian rights to The Rosie Project to Ars Lamina; and ANZ...
RiP Marek Palka
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Marek Palka, former managing director of Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand, has died, aged 64. Oxford University Press writes: ‘Past and present staff of Oxford University Press express our deep...
New members appointed to Library Board of Queensland
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Four new members have been appointed to the Library Board of Queensland, including vice-chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland Jan Thomas, who will chair the board. Queensland state librarian...
In brief
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Library and Information Week merchandise now availableMerchandise for this year’s Library and Information Week, to be held on 19-25 May, is now available to download and purchase from the Australian...
Saunders wins inaugural Folio Prize
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
In the UK, US author George Saunders has won the inaugural Folio Prize for his short-story collection Tenth of December (Bloomsbury). Saunders was announced as the winner of the £40,000...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
After seven consecutive weeks at the top of the bestsellers chart, the film tie-in edition of The Book Thief (Markus Zusak, Picador) has been displaced by two new entries. I Quit...
Frankfurt Fellowship Programme to focus exclusively on children’s, YA publishing
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that this year’s Fellowship Programme will focus exclusively on children’s and young adult publishing. The program, which will be held on 6-12 October in...
Altman nominated for Lammy award
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Author and academic Dennis Altman has been announced as a finalist in the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards, known as the ‘Lammys,’ for his book The End of the Homosexual? (UQP).The Lammys...
More prize money, new eligibility criteria for 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a number of changes to the Barbara Jefferis Award.In 2014, the award’s prize money will increase from $35,000 to $55,000, with $50,000...
ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2014 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador) Eyrie (Tim Winton, Hamish...
T.A.G. Hungerford Award secures major sponsor
Friday, 7 March 2014
The City of Fremantle has been named as the new sponsor of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, with the council to support the award financially for the next six years. The...
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