SPN Independent Publishing Conference 2013 program released
Thursday, 17 October 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has released the program for its 2013 Independent Publishing Conference. This year’s conference will be held over three days, from 14 to 16 November, at...
Cope wins award in Banff Mountain Book Competition 2013 in Canada
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Australian author Tim Cope has won an award in the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Canada. Cope won the Adventure Travel category of the competition for his book On...
Screen Australia funds new book-to-film adaptations
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Screen Australia has allocated $643,125 in funding to support the development of 18 new feature films, including film adaptations of books by Peter Carey, Melanie Joosten, Susan Duncan and Megan Abbott. Part...
Talkback: Book reviews and book sales
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Do book reviews in local and national newspapers make a difference to your sales? Bookseller+Publisher asked three booksellers. I’ve spent the past 12 years cutting out the reviews in the...
Compton wins Newcastle Poetry Prize 2013
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Jennifer Compton has won the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’. Compton was presented with the award, which is worth $12,000, at a ceremony in...
UK department store Argos launches tablet
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
In the UK and Ireland, department store Argos has launched its own branded tablet, reports the Bookseller. Following the recent example set by supermarket Tesco, Argos will sell the seven-inch MyTablet...
Kobo removes all self-published titles from UK store
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Kobo has removed all self-published titles from its UK store following WH Smith’s decision to take its website offline while it removes explicit ebooks provided by the retailer, reports the Bookseller....
Funder to deliver Dymphna Clark lecture in Melbourne
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author Anna Funder will deliver the annual Dymphna Clark Lecture in Melbourne this week. Funder, whose debut novel All That I Am (Penguin) won numerous literary...
Literary organisations, awards among Australia’s ‘Top 50 Philanthropic Gifts’
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
A number of Australian literary organisations and awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, have been named in a poll of...
Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Man Booker Prize
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries (Granta), with an award worth £50,000 (A$84,000) presented at London’s Guildhall on 15 October. Catton is the second...
QWC, Hachette announce writers for 2013 Manuscript Development Program
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia have announced the writers that have been selected to attend this year’s Manuscript Development Program. The eight writers selected for the program...
Inkerman & Blunt issues stickers to cover Nunn poem in ‘Australian Love Poems’
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Publisher Inkerman & Blunt has issued stickers for booksellers to use to cover a poem by Queensland poet Graham Nunn in its collection Australian Love Poems 2013 (ed by Mark...
Mary Cunnane launches new editing, publishing consultancy business
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Former literary agent Mary Cunnane has launched a new editing and publishing consultancy business. Cunnane, who announced the closure of The Mary Cunnane Agency in August, will offer ‘editorial services...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
‘I am very aware of the pressures upon contemporary publishing to make money and to remain competitive in a competitive world, and I know that it is no small thing...
International Library News
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
November LibraryReads list released In the US, LibraryReads has released its November list, a monthly ‘top 10’ of forthcoming adult books compiled by librarians across the country. Bellman & Black...
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2013 winners announced
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The winners of the 2013 Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Young Children Seadog (Claire...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2013 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Dubbing Blows Cold’ (Liam Copland) ‘The Job’ (Robyn...
Ingram expands Global Connect program to Russia
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Ingram Content Group has partnered with Russian media company EE Media to distribute titles in Russia via its Global Connect print-on-demand program, reports Publishers Weekly. The agreement gives publishers that are...
Hall wins BBC National Short Story Award
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
British novelist Sarah Hall has won the 2013 BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Mrs Fox’. Hall, whose novels have previously won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and been nominated...
Waterstones gets exclusive on re-published Munro story
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
In the UK, bookselling chain Waterstones will exclusively sell the print edition of a re-published short story by Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, reports the Bookseller. The story Queenie, which was...
Inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival program announced
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The program for the New South Wales Writers’ Centre’s inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival has been announced. Author Benjamin Law will curate the one day festival, which will be held at the NSW...
Queensland library named one of Australia’s ‘Top 50 Philanthropic Gifts’
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature at the University of Queensland has been included in a poll of Australia’s ‘Top 50 Philanthropic Gifts’. The ‘Top 50 Gifts’ list has...
In brief
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Staff changes at ALIA There have been a number of staff changes at the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Jane Orbell-Smith has been appointed the new Queensland state manager,...
Chapman launches new publishing business Upstart Press
Monday, 14 October 2013
Former managing director of Hachette New Zealand Kevin Chapman has launched a new publishing business called Upstart Press. Chapman, who left Hachette earlier this year following a major restructure of...
Shortlists for the ‘Bookseller’ Futurebook Innovation Awards 2013 announced
Monday, 14 October 2013
In the UK, the shortlists for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards have been announced. Award categories include Best Adult Digital Book, Best Children’s Digital Book, Best Digital Marketing Campaign, Best...
‘Business as usual’ at Frankfurt Book Fair 2013
Monday, 14 October 2013
Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Andrea Hanke reports from Frankfurt: Australian publishers have reported a productive Frankfurt Book Fair, which has been characterised by healthy interest in a broad range of titles rather...
McDonald’s to distribute self-published books via Happy Meals
Monday, 14 October 2013
In the US, fast-food chain McDonald’s will place 20 million copies of four books into Happy Meals during the first two weeks of November to coincide with National Literacy Day...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 14 October 2013
There are no changes at the top of the bestseller chart this week, with Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) retaining the top two...
An inner world: Will Elliott on ‘Inside Out’
Monday, 14 October 2013
In his review of Will Elliott’s Inside Out (HarperVoyager, February), Stefen Brazulaitis describes the novel as ‘postmodern without being pretentious and meta without being contrived’. He spoke to the author....
London Book Fair launches suite of international publishing awards
Friday, 11 October 2013
The London Book Fair (LBF) has launched a new suite of international publishing awards, which it will present for the first time at the 2014 fair, in association with the...
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