Scribble signs fashion designers Kee and Jackson
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Scribe children’s book imprint Scribble has acquired rights to two board books by Australian fashion designers and artists Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, to be released in mid-2017. The books...
Bain to leave UQP
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Greg Bain will step down as University of Queensland Press CEO in November. (See news.)
NLA launches new online bookshop
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched a new online bookshop. The redesign features an improved layout and mobile friendly browsing, with new Australian releases given prominent placement on...
Black Inc. and La Trobe University launch joint imprint
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Black Inc. has partnered with La Trobe University to form a joint publishing imprint, La Trobe University Press (LTUP). The new imprint, which aims to bring ‘scholarly works to a...
Frankfurt Book Fair launches new illustrators’ prize with $43,000 prize pool
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) has announced a new international prize for illustrators with a €10,000 (A$14,530) first prize, reports the Bookseller. The prize is divided into five categories: cover...
Naoum launches consulting business, Critical Mass
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Former Momentum publisher Joel Naoum has launched Critical Mass, a consulting business for authors, publishers and content producers. Naoum, who left Momentum in February after Pan Macmillan decided to scale...
Irish Booksellers Association warns government about centralised library supply
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
The Booksellers Association of Ireland has called on the Irish government to reconsider its planned centralised national library tender scheme, due to commence in September, reports the Bookseller. The cost-cutting...
BBC’s must-read children’s book list too focussed on the classics, warns BookTrust
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
In the UK, literacy charity BookTrust has warned the BBC’s list of ‘must-read’ books for children places too much emphasis on ‘timeless classics’, reports the Daily Telegraph. BookTrust chief executive...
NYWF announces first author line-up for 2016 program
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
The National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has announced its first line-up of artists for its 2016 program, which runs in Newcastle from 29 September to 2 October. The writers announced include Omar Musa,...
Eight literary organisations receive multi-year funding from Creative Victoria
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
A number of literary organisations are among the 90 recipients of the 2017-2020 funding round of Creative Victoria’s Organisations Investment Program, worth a total of $113m over the next four...
Jolly to retire as Scholastic chairman
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Scholastic International and Scholastic Australia chairman Ken Jolly has announced his retirement after 46 years with the publisher. Jolly joined the then H J Ashton Company in 1970 as a...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2016
Monday, 11 July 2016
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2016 is out now! It features 38 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in September to November. Melina Marchetta’s Tell the Truth, Shame the...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 11 July 2016
Jojo Moyes has three books in this week’s charts, with two of them taking out the first and second spot on overall bestsellers chart. After You (Michael Joseph), the sequel...
2016 Chief Minister’s Book of the Year shortlist announced
Monday, 11 July 2016
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre has announced the shortlist for the Chief Minister’s Book of the Year, as part of this year’s Territory Read Awards. The shortlisted titles are: Nona...
Audible unveils unlimited short-form streaming service
Monday, 11 July 2016
In the US, Amazon-owned audiobook portal Audible has unveiled an unlimited, short-form audio listening service called Channels, reports Publishers Weekly. The ad-free service is free to Audible subscribers while non-subscribers...
Fraillon longlisted for 2016 ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Monday, 11 July 2016
Australian author Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow (Lothian) has been longlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize. One of eight longlisted titles, Fraillon’s novel for middle-grade readers is a...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Friday, 8 July 2016
Travel tales Travellers to Sydney and Melbourne have two new children’s picture books to choose from. Sydney Word by Word (Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney) and Melbourne Word by Word...
All about Evi: Evi Oetomo shares her career journey
Friday, 8 July 2016
Book designer Evi Oetomo spent eight years at Penguin before opening her own studio with business partner Daniel New. She shares her career journey. Spending hours a day admiring typefaces,...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 8 July 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 11 reviews of books publishing in September 2016. Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue received the highest star rating, scoring 4.5 stars from...
UWA Publishing establishes poetry imprint
Friday, 8 July 2016
UWA Publishing has established a new poetry imprint, UWAP Poetry, in response to ‘a threefold increase in submissions from highly established and new voices alike’. The imprint will allow the...
US judge approves $5.47m settlement between Harlequin and authors over ebook royalties
Friday, 8 July 2016
In the US, a judge has granted final approval to a US$4.1m (A$5.47) class action settlement between Harlequin and authors alleging the publisher made improper ebook royalty payments, reports Publishers...
‘Mannix’ wins ALS Gold Medal 2016
Friday, 8 July 2016
Brenda Niall’s Mannix (Text), a biography of the former Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, has won the 2016 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Niall’s book was chosen from a...
Amazon UK reveals 2016 bestsellers
Thursday, 7 July 2016
In the UK, Amazon has released the print and ebook bestsellers for the first half of 2016 and disclosed its customer’s book buying habits in its ‘Summer Trends 2016’ report,...
Henson joins SLV
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Rebecca Henson has been appointed reading and literacy development manager at the State Library of Victoria, responsible for the library’s children’s and family programs and the Centre for Youth Literature...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘The richness of human possibility that is Ozlit’s stock in trade is an affront to the barren and denuded vocabulary both sides of politics employ’—incoming Picador publisher Geordie Williamson reflects...
RiP Cory Taylor
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Author Cory Taylor has died, aged 61. Taylor’s 2011 debut novel Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Pacific region, and her second novel My Beautiful...
RiP Elie Wiesel
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the memoir Night (Penguin), has died, aged 87. Wiesel was the author of over 50 works of fiction and...
RiP Terry Kitson
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Terry Kitson, former CEO of HarperCollins UK and Australia, has died following a short illness. The Bookseller writes: ‘Kitson started out as a sales rep with Corgi Books at Transworld...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The shortlists for the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) Clade (James Bradley, Hamish...
Lidudumalingani wins 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
South African writer Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘Memories We Lost’. Chosen from a shortlist of five, ‘Memories We Lost’ tells...
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