Warner Bros to make films based on Harry Potter spin-off book
Friday, 13 September 2013
Warner Bros has announced that it will produce a series of films based on J K Rowling’s 2001 book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Bloomsbury), which follows the adventures of...
French and German book trades call for government ebook policy
Thursday, 12 September 2013
In France and Germany, publishers and booksellers associations are calling for their national governments to implement a policy to protect the ebook trade from big retailers, reports the Bookseller. At...
Judge rejects claims of fraud in Armstrong memoirs
Thursday, 12 September 2013
A federal judge in California has sided with cyclist Lance Armstrong and publishers Random House US and Penguin Group US in a lawsuit that alleged that Armstrong’s denials about using performance-enhancing drugs in his...
Colin Roderick Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 September 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Toyo: A Memoir (Lily Chan, Black Inc.) The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University...
Australian genre authors to participate in interactive storytelling project
Thursday, 12 September 2013
A number of Australian authors have signed up to an interactive storytelling project that uses maps and QR codes to allow readers to follow a story in the location in...
King appointed literary director for Christchurch Writers’ Festival
Thursday, 12 September 2013
New Zealand novelist Rachael King has been appointed as the new literary director for the Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival. King is the author of two adult novels, The Sound of...
Deadly Award for Published Book of the Year 2013 announced
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation (Magabala) has won the Deadly Award for Published Book of the Year 2013. The winning...
Scottish book awards winners announced
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The category winners of this year’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards have been announced. Ewan Morrison won the Fiction Award for Close Your Eyes (Jonathan Cape) and Gavin Francis won the Nonfiction...
New children’s publisher to focus on traditional folktales
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
A new Australian children’s book publisher called Christmas Press will specialise in publishing traditional folktales from around the world. Christmas Press has been founded by well-known children’s author Sophie Masson,...
Man Booker Prize 2013 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The Luminaries by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (Granta) is one of six books shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. The full shortlist is: We Need New Names (NoViolet...
Kobo to launch ebooks, devices in the Philippines
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Kobo will enter the Philippines ereading market this month, with a number of its ereading devices to be available from bookselling chain National Book Store from 20 September. Kobo said in a...
Nonfiction, children’s books top BWF bestsellers
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Tim Cope’s On the Trail of Genghis Khan (Bloomsbury) has topped the bestsellers list at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), with nonfiction and children’s books taking out the top...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
‘It could well be the first major report into the Australian book industry that effectively grapples with most of the deep-rooted structural issues besetting it in these times of profound...
NLA Fellowship recipients announced
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of a number of its 2014 National Library Fellowships. The recipient of the 2014 Japan Fellowship is Emiko Okayama from...
Gordon elected CAUL president for 2014-15
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Heather Gordon has been elected as president of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) for 2014 and 2015. Gordon is director of library and information services at James Cook...
International Library News
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Shanghai subway library opens Chinese commuters now have access to a subway library on Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 where they can borrow a book from one station and drop it...
ABA Management Committee: Wehner steps down, Strong returns
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Boomerang Books owner Clayton Wehner has resigned from his position as a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Management Committee. ABA CEO Joel Beceker told Books+Publishing that Wehner resigned...
In brief
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Further IFLA committee appointments announced Two Australian library professionals have been elected to new positions on the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee. Eve...
Charalambous novel republished with new TV tie-in title
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
John Charalambous’ 2006 novel Silent Parts (UQP) has been republished with the new title An Accidental Soldier ahead of an ABC TV film adaptation of the same name. UQP publisher...
Australian company creates 3D animation app for existing picture books
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Australian animation company Resin has created an app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet (Adam Stower) into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’. The app, which...
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards 2013 winners announced
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
In the US, the six winners of the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards have been announced. The awards, which are each worth US$30,000 (A$32,499), are presented to women who...
Atwood, Jacobson join Hogarth’s Shakespeare project
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
In the UK, authors Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson have joined Random House’s Shakespeare publishing project, reports the Bookseller. As part of the ‘Hogarth Shakespeare’ project, Atwood and Jacobson will...
CNP eReading platform sends ebooks into China
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Chinese readers will have access to foreign-language online journals and ebooks via the CNP eReading platform, which has been launched by UK company Publishing Technology and China National Publications Import and Export (Group)...
Why publish stuff which no-one reads?
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
David Musgrave, poet, novelist and founder of independent press Puncher & Wattmann, argues that many readers are interested in reading poetry, they just need help finding the good stuff. People outside...
Vale Ian Moir
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Peribo owner Eddie Coffey writes: ‘I first met Ian in the early 1970s when he...
Ned Kelly Awards 2013 winners announced
Monday, 9 September 2013
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing were announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) on 7 September. The award for best fiction was presented to Blackwattle...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 9 September 2013
In first place on the bestsellers chart and the fastest movers chart this week is the action-thriller Never Go Back (Lee Child, Bantam), which sees Jack Reacher returning to the headquarters...
Judge signs final order in Apple ebook pricing case
Monday, 9 September 2013
In the US, the judge in Apple’s ebook pricing case has signed a final order for injunctive relief, reports Publishers Weekly. The parties in the case last week submitted a ‘final, scaled-back...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 longlist announced
Monday, 9 September 2013
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Small Wars, Far Away Places (Michael Burleigh, Macmillan) Empires of...
RIP Ian Moir
Monday, 9 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of his life to be held...
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