RiP Georgia Blain Archive
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Author Georgia Blain has died, aged 51. Blain was the author of several adult and YA novels, the short story collection The Secret Lives of Men (Scribe) and the memoir...
Contributor funds help Trove upload new documents after NLA budget cuts Archive
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
The Department of Communications and the Arts has told a senate estimates committee that groups have been funding the National Library of Australia’s digital archive Trove to continue to upload...
RiP Anne Deveson Archive
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Journalist, author and social commentator Anne Deveson has died, aged 86. Deveson was the author of the memoirs Resilience (A&U) and Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an...
Child, Hawkins top UK libraries’ most loaned; titles borrowed drops 14.6% Archive
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
In the UK, Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) has topped the list of the most borrowed library book this year-to-date according to Nielsen LibScan statistics, reports the Bookseller. In a...
Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2016 Archive
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2016. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2017 will be published on Wednesday 11 January. The last Daily Newsletter for 2016 was published on...
Bachoura wins 2016 Deborah Cass Prize Archive
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Syrian-born actor and writer Jean Bachoura has won Writers Victoria’s 2016 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for his manuscript extract ‘Night Falls’. ‘Night Falls’ was chosen...
HarperCollins acquires McTiernan, Ringland debuts Archive
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to two novels by first-time Australian authors. Perth-based writer Dervla McTiernan’s crime novel The Rúin was acquired by publisher Anna Valdinger in a two-book deal...
Diversity initiative ‘Voices from the Intersection’ to hold publisher speed pitching day Archive
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Authors Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina have launched a volunteer initiative Voices from the Intersection (VFTI), with the aim of providing publication and mentorship opportunities to emerging YA and children’s...
OzCo announces leadership program participants Archive
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
A number of literary arts workers have been selected for the 2017 Australia Council Leadership Programs. Participants in the 2017 Future Leaders Program include Right Now magazine general manager Reiko...
Indie Book Awards 2017 longlists announced Archive
Monday, 12 December 2016
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2017 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) Between a...
Watts, Witherspoon to adapt ‘Penguin Bloom’ for film Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
Australian actress Naomi Watts has partnered with US actress and film producer Reese Witherspoon and US film producer Bruna Papandrea to option the rights to Penguin Bloom (Cameron Bloom &...
Martyn leaves HarperCollins Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
HarperCollins Australia publishing director Shona Martyn has left the publisher to pursue ‘new challenges’ after 17 years with the company. Martyn joined HarperCollins in 1999 as publishing director of Australian and...
Australian publications, booksellers recommend their top titles for 2016 Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
A number of Australian publications and booksellers have released their recommended books for 2016. The Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald and Age publications have compiled their annual round-up of Australian writers’...
‘KYD’ announces new staff, appoints Elson as book critic Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
Literary magazine Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a number of staff changes for 2017, including the appointment of Gerard Elson to the role of KYD book critic. Elson, who...
European book sales up slightly in 2015 Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has released a survey showing a ‘small increase’ in total sales revenue in 2015 for publishers in the European Union and the European Economic...
New Zealand publishing recovers after weak 2013-14 Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
A new PricewaterhouseCoopers report shows a recovery in the New Zealand book publishing industry in 2015 after weak years in 2013 and 2014. The report estimates the total value of...
Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2016 Archive
Friday, 9 December 2016
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily will be the last for 2016. The Daily will return on Monday 9 January. The Books+Publishing team wishes our subscribers all the best for the...
ABA appoints conference coordinator, announces new staff roles Archive
Thursday, 8 December 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Helen Papadimitriou as its 2017 conference and trade exhibition coordinator following the departure of marketing and conference manager Steve Jones. ABA CEO Joel...
New TitlePage service to cater to self-publishers and micro-publishers Archive
Thursday, 8 December 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a new service that offers self-publishers and micro-publishers the opportunity to list their books on TitlePage without becoming APA members. The ‘Batch Title...
US writers’ groups Authors United and the Author Guild merge Archive
Thursday, 8 December 2016
In the US, campaign group Authors United has merged with the country’s largest writers’ organisation, the Authors Guild, reports the Bookseller. Originally set up to protect authors’ interests in Amazon’s...
Moriarty tops fiction category in 2016 Goodreads Awards Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (Pan Macmillan) has won the fiction category in the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2016. Moriarty won the category with 30,154 votes, coming ahead of...
Please complete our pre-Christmas survey: Last chance Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
‘The Cow Tripped Over the Moon’ to be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2017 Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Tony Wilson and Laura Wood’s The Cow Tripped over the Moon (Scholastic) will be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2017, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced. National...
Abrams pulls ‘intentionally offensive’ book after social media response Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
In the UK and US, publisher Abrams is discontinuing publication of Bad Little Children's Books after criticism on social media over the book’s ‘unabashedly un-PC, rude, tasteless, inappropriate—or all the above’...
Kaminsky wins 2016 Voss Literary Prize Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Author and doctor Leah Kaminsky has won the 2016 Voss Literary Prize for her debut novel The Waiting Room (Vintage). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel...
ASA emerging writers, illustrators mentorship recipients announced Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
The 13 participants selected for the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Emerging Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program have been announced. The recipients of the 12 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund mentorships...
Lefevre named Adelaide Uni’s Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
South Australian author Carol Lefevre has been chosen as the second Copyright Agency J M Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide. The $30,000 fellowship, funded by the Copyright...
Christmas closing list 2016: Updated Archive
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Company Last day of business in 2016 First day of business in 2017 Allen & Unwin Friday 23 December (Closing 1pm) Tuesday 3 January Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) (see classified)...
Merry Christmas: Our 2016 highlights and plans for 2017 Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
As the end of the year approaches (we published our Christmas preview in July and our 2017 fiction, nonfiction and children’s/YA previews in October, so it feels like it’s been...
FutureBook Award 2016 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
In the UK, the Bookseller has announced the winners of this year’s FutureBook Innovation Awards. Pan Macmillan digital communications director Sara Lloyd was named Digital Leader of Year because of...
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