Miles Franklin 2013 longlist announced
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Lola Bensky (Lily Brett, Hamish Hamilton) Street to Street (Brian...
Melville House to open UK business
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The founders of US independent publisher Melville House have announced plans to open a second company in the UK, reports Publishers Weekly. Initially Melville House UK will market titles published by...
Hachette delays Jane Goodall book due to plagiarism concerns
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
In the US, Hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing has delayed publication of anthropologist Jane Goodall’s new book due to plagiarism concerns, reports Publishers Weekly. It was found that Seeds of...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Please note that, due to the Easter Monday public holiday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 4 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements is therefore 12 noon Wednesday 3...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Japanese translation rights to The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Hugh White) to Keiso Shobo. Acquisitions Fiction—Spinifex has acquired North American and UK...
RiP Barbara Anderson
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
New Zealand novelist and short-story writer Barbara Anderson has died, aged 86. Her novels include Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (Vintage), The House Guest (Vintage), Proud Garments (Ebury) and Girls High...
RiP Chinua Achebe
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died, aged 82. Achebe’s novels include Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Anthills of the...
Google stops publishing Frommer’s titles in print
Monday, 25 March 2013
Google has stopped publishing print editions of Frommer’s titles, reports travel website Skrift. According to Skrift, the last two Frommer’s titles to appear in print were two guidebooks in the...
‘Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop’ wins Diagram Award
Monday, 25 March 2013
In the UK, Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop (Reginald Bakeley, Conari Press) has won the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller. Bakeley’s book was one...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reorganises children’s imprints
Monday, 25 March 2013
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is reorganising its children’s imprints after changing its logo late last year, reports Publishers Weekly. From the second quarter of 2014, HMH will use Houghton...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 25 March 2013
Kids can’t wait for Easter, according to this week’s fastest movers chart. The top two books are The Great Big Aussie Easter Egg Hunt by Colin Buchanan (Scholastic) and The Easter...
Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2013 White Ravens list
Monday, 25 March 2013
Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators are among those who have been acknowledged on the 2013 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The following Australian authors and illustrators...
New Arts, Small Business ministers appointed
Monday, 25 March 2013
Tony Burke has been appointed as the new Federal Minister for the Arts and Gary Gray has been appointed as the new Federal Minister for Small Business. Prime Minister Julia...
‘The Light between Oceans’ wins Indie Book of the Year
Monday, 25 March 2013
The Light between Oceans by M L Stedman (Vintage) has been named Indie Book of the Year at the 2013 Independent Booksellers of Australia Awards, presented at Berkelouw Bookstore in...
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Monday, 25 March 2013
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes winners announced
Saturday, 23 March 2013
James Boyce has won the overall Tasmania Book Prize in this year’s Tasmanian Literary Prizes, presented on 22 March as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival. Boyce...
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival program announced
Friday, 22 March 2013
The program for the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, to be held between 15 and 19 May, has been released. New Zealand’s largest festival of ‘literature and ideas’ will...
News outlets, blogs add ‘Send to Kindle’ buttons
Friday, 22 March 2013
The Washington Post, Time magazine and blogs such as Boing Boing have added Amazon’s new ‘Send to Kindle’ button to their websites, reports the Bookseller. The button, which can also...
Bonett, ABA to produce ‘A Guide to Melbourne Bookshops’
Friday, 22 March 2013
Embiggen Books owner Warren Bonett is creating a mini guide to promote Melbourne’s bookshops, in conjunction with the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA). Bonett, who used to work as a book...
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2013 announced
Friday, 22 March 2013
In the UK, Waterstones has announced the winners of its Children’s Book Prize for 2013 at a ceremony at Waterstones’ flagship shop in Piccadilly, London. The winner of the overall prize and the Teenage...
S&S gives authors piracy data on their works
Friday, 22 March 2013
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) is giving authors information about the piracy of their own works, reports Publishers Weekly. S&S receives information about infringement and unauthorised copies of digital,...
OverDrive to close Booki.sh retail platform
Friday, 22 March 2013
Ebook distributor OverDrive has confirmed to Books+Publishing that it will discontinue ebook sales from its Booki.sh platform. OverDrive, which acquired the local Booki.sh platform in March 2012, said today that...
Penguin Australia renames children’s division, expands digital publishing program
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Penguin Australia has renamed its children’s division Penguin Young Readers. Penguin said in a statement that the name has been changed ‘to better reflect [the division’s] diverse range of print and digital...
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
French president outlines measures to preserve local book industry
Thursday, 21 March 2013
In France, president François Hollande has outlined possible measures to support the French book industry, reports the Bookseller. Speaking at a reception at the Élysée Palace before the opening of the Paris...
Hachette UK appoints consumer insight director
Thursday, 21 March 2013
In the UK, Hachette has created the new position of consumer insight director, and appointed current vice-president of global consumer insight at EMI Music, Louisa Livingston, to the role, reports...
2012 Aurealis Awards finalists announced
Thursday, 21 March 2013
The finalists for the 2012 Aurealis Awards have been announced. Among the categories announced were: Fantasy novel Bitter Greens (Kate Forsyth, Vintage) Stormdancer (Jay Kristoff, Tor UK) Sea Hearts (Margo...
Most Beautiful Books Australia and New Zealand award winners announced
Thursday, 21 March 2013
The winners of the inaugural Most Beautiful Books Australia and New Zealand (MBBANZ) award have been announced. The winners are: Anthology of New Zealand Literature (ed by Jane Stafford &...
‘Between past and present’: Amanda Curtin on ‘Elemental’
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Reviewer Gerard Elson describes Amanda Curtin’s new novel Elemental (UWA Publishing, May) as a ‘fruitful fascination with memory, history and the generational legacies of family’. The author spoke with Elson,...
NZ Commerce Commission clears Penguin Random House merger
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The New Zealand Commerce Commission has cleared the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. Commerce Commission chairman Mark Berry said in a statement on 19 March that ‘the commission...
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