Penguin India announces new Bollywood crime imprint
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Penguin India will launch a crime imprint with authors who are connected to Bollywood, reports Business Today. The Blue Salt imprint will launch in December with the titles Ghalib Danger...
Amazon launches Kindle store in Australia
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Amazon has launched a Kindle store in Australia and is now selling locally published ebooks. The Kindle store went live this morning at www.amazon.com.au, a domain name that the retailer...
De Kretser, Koch and Tiffany most popular local nominations for 2014 IMPAC award
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U), Lost Voices by Christopher Koch (Fourth Estate) and Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany (Picador) were the most popular books nominated by...
Author Tim Ferriss begins publishing audiobooks
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In the US, self-help author Tim Ferriss has begun publishing audiobooks, reports TechCrunch. Ferriss, who is the author of books such as The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body (both Vermilion), is...
Readings launches new website
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Melbourne-based bookseller Readings has launched its new-look website in the lead-up to Christmas. The new site replaces the previous six-year-old website, and aims to give greater prominence to reviews, blog...
Annabel Smith on (not) making a living from writing
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In a blog post for the Wheeler Centre, Annabel Smith shares some sobering figures on authors’ earnings. Nowadays, a multitude of blog posts, webinars and online courses tout the idea...
International Library News
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Petition against Lincolnshire library closures attracts 23,000 signatures A petition against the closure of libraries in the county of Lincolnshire, UK, has attracted 23,000 signatures and is ‘almost certainly the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
‘Our job is to invent on behalf of the customer, make the experience of buying books and enjoying books better, and then let customers decide’—Amazon Kindle vice president Neil Lindsay...
In brief
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Former Booker Prize judge to deliver David Scott Mitchell Lecture 2013 Former Booker Prize judge Rick Gekoski will deliver this year’s David Scott Mitchell Lecture. Gekoski, who was the chair...
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund local library leadership program
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $550,000 over five years to fund a regional leadership program for library professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, called...
Turia Pitt named ‘Cosmo’ Woman of the Year
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Australian author Turia Pitt has been named Cosmopolitan magazine’s Woman of the Year, winning the overall prize in the magazine’s annual Fun Fearless Female Awards. Pitt, whose memoir Everything to Live...
S&S pulls sale of ‘The Embassy House’
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster has pulled the sale of a book about the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, amid doubt about its legitimacy, reports the Associated Press. Threshold...
Amazon teams up with US postal service for Sunday deliveries
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, Amazon shoppers in New York and Los Angeles will be able to receive their parcels on Sundays as a result of a new deal between the retailer...
Debut novel attracts advance of ‘close to US$2 million’
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
In the US, a debut novel has sold at auction for ‘close to US$2 million’ (A$2.14 million) after a bidding war in which 10 publishers bid more than $1 million...
Nowra wins 2013 Patrick White Award
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Author and playwright Louis Nowra is the recipient of the 2013 Patrick White Literary Award, the 40th award in the prize’s history. Nowra was presented with the $23,000 award...
Australian, NZ authors on IMPAC Dublin 2014 longlist
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: The...
On tour: Meet the author Samantha Shannon
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
UK author Samantha Shannon is visiting Australia in November for the Supanova pop culture expo. Shannon’s debut novel The Bone Season (Bloomsbury) is the first book in a seven-part series....
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Canadian and French rights to Coal Creek (Alex Miller); Italian rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller); Italian rights to Dinner at Rose’s (Danielle...
‘The Aleppo Codex’ wins 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Monday, 11 November 2013
In the US, journalist Matti Friedman has won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of...
2013 Bad S-x in Fiction Award shortlist announced
Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: My Education (Susan Choi, Short Books); The Last Banquet (Jonathan...
Perth Writers Festival announces line-up
Monday, 11 November 2013
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing in its 2014 line-up. Among the international guests attending the festival, which runs from 20-23 February, are US authors...
Myer Christmas Windows based on Jan Brett picture book
Monday, 11 November 2013
This year’s Myer Christmas Windows in Bourke St, Melbourne, and Queen St, Brisbane, are based on the picture book Gingerbread Friends by US author Jan Brett (Penguin). The book follows the adventures...
‘Battleborn’ wins Dylan Thomas Prize
Monday, 11 November 2013
In the UK, US author Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her short-story collection Battleborn (Granta). Vaye Watkins was presented with the prize, which is worth...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 11 November 2013
Ricky Ponting’s Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) has ended Tim Winton’s two-week run at number one on the bestsellers chart, with Eyrie (Hamish Hamilton) now in second place. Di...
Human Rights Literature Award 2013 shortlist announced
Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights (Jane Lydon, NewSouth)...
RiP Peter Darby
Monday, 11 November 2013
Bookseller Peter Darby has died, aged 79. Pam Horsey writes: ‘Peter began his bookselling career in the 1950s at Robertson & Mullen. He was a quiet and private person with...
Booksellers respond negatively to Amazon Source launch
Friday, 8 November 2013
A number of booksellers in the US and UK have responded negatively to the newly launched Amazon Source program, which allows retailers to stock Kindle devices and to receive revenue...
Reilly and Fox top PLR, ELR lists
Friday, 8 November 2013
Books by Matthew Reilly and Mem Fox have once again topped the lists of the highest scoring titles in the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes....
British Fantasy Awards 2013 winners announced
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (Gollancz) has won the Best Fantasy Novel category at the 2013 British Fantasy Awards, which were presented at the World Fantasy Convention...
Lynn Coady wins Giller Prize 2013
Thursday, 7 November 2013
In Canada, Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short-story collection Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). She wins C$50,000 (A$50,340). Coady’s book was chosen by judges...
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