Sessions to retire from Penguin
Monday, 6 May 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that Bob Sessions will retire from the company on 27 September. Sessions has worked for Penguin Australia for more than 27 years and was head of...
2013 BILBY Awards shortlist announced
Monday, 6 May 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories...
Beckett wins 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award
Friday, 3 May 2013
British author Chris Beckett has won the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award for Dark Eden (Atlantic Books). Beckett’s novel, which tells the story of an abandoned colony on a distant...
Bloomsbury to launch digital-first YA imprint
Friday, 3 May 2013
Bloomsbury will launch a digital-first imprint for young adult, teen and new adult fiction in the second half of this year. Bloomsbury Spark is currently accepting unsolicited submissions for a...
HarperCollins 360 program expands to UK
Friday, 3 May 2013
HarperCollins has expanded its HarperCollins 360 program to the UK, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins 360 aims to make all HarperCollins titles available through all of its subsidiaries, where it holds...
O’Reilly to end TOC conference
Friday, 3 May 2013
US publisher O’Reilly has announced that it is ending its Tools of Change (TOC) conference and blog after seven years. Founder Tim O’Reilly wrote on the TOC blog that the...
Hartnett novel ‘Of a Boy’ adapted to screen
Friday, 3 May 2013
Sonya Hartnett’s novel Of a Boy (Penguin) has been adapted into a film. The Weight of Elephants was shot in Southland, New Zealand, in March 2012. It is the feature film debut from New...
On tour: Meet the author Deborah Ellis
Friday, 3 May 2013
Canadian writer Deborah Ellis is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Schools’ Program. Her latest book, the third in the ‘Parvana’ series, is Parvana’s Promise (A&U), the...
Whitcoulls to stop accepting Booksellers Tokens
Friday, 3 May 2013
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls will stop redeeming Booksellers Tokens and Booksellers Exchange Cards at the end of July, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Booksellers NZ said that the tokens and...
International Library News
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Hachette US to supply full ebook catalogue to libraries In the US, Hachette has announced that it will make its full catalogue of ebooks available to libraries, reports Publishers Weekly....
Authors sue self-publishing service Author Solutions, parent company Penguin
Thursday, 2 May 2013
In the US, three authors are suing self-publishing service Author Solutions and its parent company Penguin, reports Publishers Weekly. The authors, who are seeking class action status, allege in their...
‘Ten Tiny Things’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Ten Tiny Things by Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...
Between the real and the surreal: Felicity Volk on ‘Lightning’
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Reviewer Max Oliver described first-time author Felicity Volk’s book Lightning (Picador) an ‘ambitious, finely written novel’ that tells the story of ‘two outsiders finding each other’. He spoke to the...
Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2013 finalists announced
Thursday, 2 May 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand science-fiction, horror and fantasy have been announced. The finalists in the best novel category are: Dead Radiance (T G Ayer, Evolved...
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival annouces line-up
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced a number of authors attending this year’s festival, which will run from 11-15 October. International authors include: Lionel Shriver (US); Irvine Welsh (UK); Danny Morrison...
German ereading company launches Australian, New Zealand ebookstores
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Berlin-based ereading company txtr has launched ebookstores in Australia and New Zealand. The stores officially launched at the beginning of February and each store currently sells approximately 700,000 ebooks, including...
Free ebook website Obooko launches in the UK
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Obooko, a website offering free ebooks, is set to launch in the UK, reports the Bookseller. A UK-based company that has operated in the US market for the past three years, Obooko.com offers thousands...
Stager wins Local Legends Award
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Fiona Stager, co-owner of Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader, has won a Creativity Award as part of the Local Legends Awards. Organised by Queensland Government Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad and Brisbane...
Newtone Press acquires BPA Print Group
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Newtone Press has acquired BPA Print Group after the printer was placed into receivership in late March. According to Print21, Melbourne-based Newtone Press is taking on BPA Print Group’s operations...
Unleash Books & Education outlets close
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Independent bookselling chain Unleash Books & Education closed its four stores in Westfield shopping centres in Sydney in March. A spokesperson for Westfield confirmed to Books+Publishing that the Unleash Books...
‘Read in a Single Sitting’ wins best Words and Writing blog
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Stephanie Campisi’s ‘Read in a Single Sitting’ blog has won the Words and Writing category in the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition. Category judge, Random House managing editor Brandon Van Over,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Sales Fiction—Scribe has licensed North American rights to Cat & Fiddle (Lesley Jørgensen) to Penguin US. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed Spanish rights within the US to Forever (Anna Pignataro). Acquisitions Nonfiction—Black...
New city libraries for Perth, Adelaide
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Plans are underway to build new city libraries in Perth and Adelaide. Construction is set to begin on the City of Perth’s proposed $33.3 million public library and plaza, which...
ARTIC community library in Brisbane to close
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The Acacia Ridge Technology Information Centre (ARTIC) in Brisbane will close in May, reports the Courier Mail. The volunteer-run community library, which has been operating since 1999, will close due...
In brief
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
ACU Library announces new partnership with Ingram The Australian Catholic University (ACU) Library has announced a new partnership with Ingram’s Coutts Information Services. The library said in a statement this month...
International Library News
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Library of Congress wins special Grammy Award In the US, a special Grammy Award has been presented to the Library of Congress for its work over the past decade to...
Australian journalist shortlisted for Arthur Ellis Award
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Australian journalist Steve Lillebuen has been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Lillebuen, who divides his time between Australia and Canada, is nominated...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
‘Judges of literary prizes today occupy two increasingly incompatible roles. Think of a strip club spruiker wearing an academic gown and brandishing his rolled doctorate as he dutifully proclaims the...
A simpler life: Inga Simpson on ‘Mr Wigg’
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Reviewer John Purcell credited Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg (Hachette) with giving him ‘that warm feeling that comes from having read something that has strengthened or even reawakened a sense of what is...
Satire as celebration: Andrew Morgan on ‘Good on Paper’
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
In his debut novel Good on Paper (Hunter Publishers), Andrew Morgan has a lot of fun sending up the Australian publishing scene—but he’s keeping his source material close to his...
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