Curtis Brown launches self-publishing program with Kindle Direct Publishing
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
In the UK, literary agency Curtis Brown has partnered with Kindle Direct Publishing and Amazon-owned CreateSpace to launch a digital self-publishing program, reports the Bookseller. The program, which launched some...
Platt wins US$75,000 Cundill Prize in History
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
US author Stephen Platt has won the 2012 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University in Canada for his book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the...
New office for Affirm Press
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Affirm Press is moving to a new office this month. The Melbourne-based publisher, currently located at 1 Jacksons Road in Mulgrave, will relocate to a converted warehouse at 28 Thistlethwaite...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Notorious Nineteen (Hachette), Janet Evanovich’s latest mystery featuring New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, is at the top of this week’s highest new entries chart. The top four titles on...
Authors and publishers make ‘Top 100’ people lists in Melbourne, Sydney magazines
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Fairfax newspapers featured a number of publishing industry professionals in its ‘Top 100’ influential and inspirational people lists in its Sydney and Melbourne magazines published in December. In the Age...
Melbourne’s Westgarth Books closes
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Westgarth Books in Northcote, Melbourne, has closed, and its retail space is available for lease. The bookstore closed soon after holding a large ‘garage sale’ in September. Situated close to Westgarth Cinema, the...
Christmas closing times 2012
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Last day of business First day of business Allen & Unwin Australia Friday 21 December Wednesday 2 January Allen & Unwin New Zealand Friday 21 December Thursday 3 January Alliance...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House Australia has sold rights to Settler’s Creek (Carl Nixon) to Germany. Pan Macmillan has sold rights to Poet’s Cottage and Currawong Manor (Josephine Pennicott) to Ulstein Publishers...
In brief
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Fairfax Media donates 12,000 photos to NLA Fairfax Media has donated its collection of glass-plate negatives to the National Library of Australia. The collection includes 12,000 photos that have previously been...
Evaluation of National Year of Reading due in early 2013
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
An academic evaluation of the 2012 National Year of Reading carried out by Edith Cowan University in Western Australia will be released in March/April next year. Campaign organiser Sue McKerracher told...
NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards winners announced
Monday, 3 December 2012
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary and History Awards were announced on 30 November at the State Library of New South Wales. In the Premier’s Literary...
‘The Australian Moment’ wins 2012 Walkley Book Award
Monday, 3 December 2012
George Megalogenis has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times (Viking). Megalogenis received the award during the Walkley Awards for...
E L James named ‘Publishers Weekly’ Publishing Person of the Year
Monday, 3 December 2012
US book industry magazine Publishers Weekly has named Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James as its ‘Publishing Person of the Year’ for 2012. Publishers Weekly said it selected...
United Agents acquires A P Watt literary agency
Monday, 3 December 2012
In the UK, United Agents literary agency has acquired A P Watt, one of the oldest agencies in the world, reports the Bookseller. The confirmation of the acquisition follows reports...
BWF launches creative collaboration project
Monday, 3 December 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) is calling for submissions from creative organisations and networks to run collaborative events during the 2013 festival. The ampers&nd project is aimed at organisations such...
Koval to host online book show ‘Monthly Book’
Monday, 3 December 2012
Former ABC Radio National presenter Ramona Koval will host the Monthly Book, an online book show on the Monthly website, from early 2013. ‘Since I left the ABC just a...
Weekly Book Newsletter
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Click here to see the Weekly Book Newsletter for 5 December 2012.
‘The Yellow Birds’ wins ‘Guardian’ first book award
Friday, 30 November 2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Hodder & Stoughton) has won the 2012 Guardian First Book Award. Chair of the judging panel and editor of Guardian Review Lisa Allardice said...
Random House US to launch three new digital-only imprints
Friday, 30 November 2012
In the US, Random House plans to launch three new digital-only imprints, reports Publishers Weekly. Alibi will be a mystery-thriller list, Flirt will be a Young Adult list and Hydra...
Amazon Publishing to expand to Europe
Friday, 30 November 2012
Amazon is expanding its original publishing operation to Europe, reports Paid Content. In a letter to literary agents on 28 November, Amazon publishing vice president Jeff Belle said the company...
Booksellers to participate in Westfield ‘Super Saturday’ promotion
Friday, 30 November 2012
Booksellers located within Westfield shopping centres across the country will be among the retailers offering special deals to shoppers on Saturday 1 December as part of the Westfield ‘Super Saturday’...
NSW Prem’s awards to be announced tonight
Friday, 30 November 2012
The winners of the NSW Premier’s Awards will be announced tonight at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW. This year two Miles Franklin Literary Award winners are competing...
EWF announces digital publication mentorships
Friday, 30 November 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is calling for applications for a six-month digital publication mentorship in 2013. The festival said in a statement that it is looking for three writers...
Fifty Shades ‘party game’ coming to Australia before Christmas
Friday, 30 November 2012
EL James has approved a Fifty Shades of Grey ‘party game’, to be released in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and the UK in December. The game’s maker Imagination...
Judges for new-look NZ Post awards announced
Friday, 30 November 2012
The judges for the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. Listener book editor Guy Somerset, reo Māori author Paora Tibble, crime writer Vanda Symon and poet Bernadette Hall will...
Bolinda to distribute Pan Macmillan and A&U ebooks into libraries
Friday, 30 November 2012
Bolinda has announced a partnership with Pan Macmillan and Allen & Unwin to supply ebooks via its BorrowBox digital download platform into libraries and schools. The BorrowBox ebook platform will be rolled...
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple ‘demolishing’ the Australian industry, says Grant at Copyright Agency AGM
Friday, 30 November 2012
Changes to the Board of the Copyright Agency were announced at its AGM on Wednesday 28 November. Publisher director Rodney Martin stepped down from his role, having served his maximum...
Gleeson-White wins 2012 Waverley Library Award for Literature
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Jane Gleeson-White has won this year’s Waverley Library Award for Literature for her book Double Entry (A&U). Gleeson-White was presented with the $20,000 award, known as ‘the Nib’, at an...
UK authority orders Amazon to remove ‘free’ from Prime delivery offer
Thursday, 29 November 2012
In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered Amazon to change the wording of its ‘free’ one-day delivery offer for members of its Prime loyalty program, reports the...
‘Us and Them’ wins inaugural Voiceless print media award
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals, Anna Krien’s March 2012 Quarterly Essay (Black Inc.) has won the inaugural 2012 Voiceless Media Prize for print. The award was announced...
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