Folio Prize to launch two-day fiction festival
Friday, 6 December 2013
In the UK, the organisers of the Folio Prize will stage a two-day fiction festival next year in the lead-up to the announcement of the inaugural prize on 10 March,...
Glover wins 2013 Johnno Award
Friday, 6 December 2013
Brisbane writer, lecturer and book industry figure Stuart Glover has won the 2013 Johnno Award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in Queensland. Glover...
Swinwood to succeed Hayes at Harlequin
Friday, 6 December 2013
In the US, Harlequin publisher and CEO Donna Hayes will retire from her position the end of the year and be succeeded by Harlequin North America chief operating officer Craig...
Suri wins 2013 Bad S-x in Fiction Award for ‘The City of Devi’
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Indian-American author Manil Suri has won this year’s UK Literary Review Bad S-x in Fiction Award for his third novel The City of Devi (Bloomsbury). Suri’s book was selected from...
Pandora Award 2013 shortlist announced
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Women in Publishing UK has announced the shortlist for 2013 Pandora Award, which recognises women for their significant and sustained contributions to the publishing industry. The shortlisted women are: Blake...
‘Too Many Elephants in This House’ selected for 2014 National Simultaneous Storytime
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Too Many Elephants in This House by Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner (Viking) has been selected for next year’s National Simultaneous Storytime, to be held at 11am on 21 May 2014....
Baillie appointed sales director at Simon & Schuster
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Elissa Baillie will join Simon & Schuster Australia in January in the role of sales director. Baillie currently works for Penguin US, where she manages sales for the Penguin Young...
Library Shop at the SLQ launches online store
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The Library Shop at the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) in Brisbane has launched an online store. The online store opened to the public at the beginning of October. Library Shop...
Quebec Government introduces legislation to regulate book prices
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
In Canada, the Quebec Government has introduced legislation to regulate book prices by limiting discounts on books to 10%, reports globalnews.com. Under the legislation, each new print or digital book for...
EWF to stage Digital Writers’ Festival in February
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival has announced that it will hold a Digital Writers’ Festival in February 2014. The purely online festival will run from 13-24 February at a new festival website, which...
‘Stoner’ named Waterstones Book of the Year
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Stoner by US author John Williams (Vintage) has been named the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2013 in the UK. The novel, which was first published in 1965 and...
Online sales up but purchase sizes down, says NAB report
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A new report from the National Australia Bank (NAB) has revealed that Australians spent $14.4 billion on online purchases in the year to October 2013, up $2 billion on the...
Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013 have been announced. The winners included And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury) in the Best Fiction category and...
New Copia-powered online stores launched
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A number of Copia-powered online stores have been launched in the past few months. Some of the stores are ebooks-only, while others sell a mixture of print and ebooks. The...
SLNSW launches fundraising campaign to ‘revitalise’ Mitchell Library
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The State Library of NSW has launched a $25 million fundraising campaign to ‘revitalise’ the Mitchell Library through corporate, philanthropic and individual donations. The library’s revitalisation project includes building new galleries, research...
In brief
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
LIANZA appoints Stone as leadership champion The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has appointed Lynley Stone as leadership champion. According to LIANZA, Stone will be ‘instrumental in the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
‘Back to 2009 levels—very exciting!’—A bookseller reports on their store’s Christmas sales to date in the Books+Publishing pre-Christmas survey. Booksellers and publishers, click here to complete the survey.
Online publication the ‘New Daily’ offers books coverage
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Australian online news publication the New Daily, which was launched in November, is including coverage of books in its entertainment section. The New Daily entertainment editor Antonia Acott told Books+Publishing that the...
New online bookshop specialises in sports books
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
A new Australian online bookstore that specialises in sports books opened in November. Parade Lap Books sells motorsport, cricket, football and horseracing titles. It is owned by a company called...
Amazon plans drone delivery service
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Amazon has announced plans for a drone delivery service to be ready by 2015. The service, called Prime Air, will aim to deliver packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or...
Hodder to launch self-help imprint
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
In the UK, Hodder is set to launch a new self-help imprint called Yellow Kite, reports the Bookseller. Yellow Kite will launch in January with a list of nine titles,...
‘Death on Demand’ wins Ngaio Marsh Award
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
In New Zealand, Paul Thomas’ Death on Demand (Hodder Moa) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction. Death on Demand is the fourth book in...
Under cover: Amanda Wildsmith on book cover design
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Earlier this year at the Hardie Grant office I noticed a group of people crowding around a computer. My curiosity got the better of me and I got closer. ‘Does...
Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2013 next week
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter (11 December) will be the last for 2013. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2013 will be 8 January 2013. Any news or advertisements for the...
Christmas closing list: Final chance to submit dates
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 6 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s...
Christmas closing list 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Andrews McMeel Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 13 January Arbon Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 6 January Australian...
Pick-a-WooWoo shortlisted for WA business award
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Western Australia-based publisher Pick-a-WooWoo has been named a finalist in the 2013 Regional Small Business Awards, presented by the Western Australian Government. Pick-a-WooWoo, which publishes Mind Body Spirit books for...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold Arabic Language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Dr Russ Harris and Bev Aisbett); and English language rights for Malaysia and Singapore to Growing...
RiP André Schiffrin
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
French-born US publisher, editor and author André Schiffrin has died, aged 78. Schiffrin joined Random House imprint Pantheon Books in 1962, rising to become its editor-in-chief and managing director. At...
International Library News
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Children’s books most borrowed at new Birmingham Library Children’s books dominate the most borrowed list at the new Library of Birmingham in the UK, reports the Bookseller. More than 120,000...
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