MWF 2016 schools program released
Monday, 23 May 2016
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools program for 2016. This year’s program, which runs from 29 August to 1 September, features Magda Szubanski, John Marsden, Anna Funder, Alice...
UK government to tax adult colouring books
Monday, 23 May 2016
The UK government’s tax department HMRC has sent letters to several publishers requesting the 20% value-added tax (VAT) be paid on adult colouring titles, reports the Bookseller. In the UK,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 23 May 2016
David Baldacci’s The Last Mile (Macmillan) has held on to top spot in the overall bestsellers chart this week, ahead of The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo book one...
CBCA Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Friday, 20 May 2016
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Book of...
Bloomsbury launches B2B-focussed strategy; reports revenue increase for 2015
Friday, 20 May 2016
In the UK, Bloomsbury has unveiled a new strategy that will aim to reposition the publisher from a primarily consumer-driven focussed model to ‘a digital B2B (business-to-business)’ model by capitalising...
Lessac, Carnavas win SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Friday, 20 May 2016
Frané Lessac’s A is for Australia (Walker Books) and Peter Carnavas’ Blue Whale Blues (New Frontier) have jointly-won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards shortlist announced today
Friday, 20 May 2016
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will announce the shortlist for its Book of the Year Awards at 12pm today (20 May) at the CBCA National Conference in Sydney. The CBCA...
A&U, NewSouth win industry awards at 2016 ABIAs; Szubanski’s ‘Reckoning’ named Book of the Year
Friday, 20 May 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 19 May. Allen & Unwin was awarded Publisher of the Year and NewSouth Books was...
BBC education app promotion concerns UK publishers
Thursday, 19 May 2016
In the UK, educational publishers have expressed concerns over the BBC’s study revision platform Bitesize, arguing that the reach of the app through promotion on the broadcaster’s various platforms is anticompetitive...
Penguin Random House opens bookstore in Puerto Rico
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has opened a bookstore in US territory Puerto Rico, in partnership with local bookseller The Bookmark, reports the Digital Reader. The store contains 1000 PRH titles...
Creative Victoria announces new VicArts recipients
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Creative Victoria has announced the latest round of VicArts Grants recipients. The program will provide $1.6m in funding for 96 creative projects by independent artists and arts organisations in Victoria....
Tennant wins 2016 Finch Memoir Prize
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Mary Tennant has won the 2016 Finch Memoir Prize, worth $10,000, for her manuscript I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes. The publisher said Tennant’s manuscript is ‘a powerful story about...
ABIA People’s Choice Awards winners announced
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) reader’s choice awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: General fiction book of the year Close Your...
Affirm signs an inaugural Varuna Mentorship Award winner
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Affirm Press has acquired the rights to Paula Keogh’s memoir The Green Bell after Keogh was one of three winners of its inaugural Varuna Mentorship Award announced in October last...
Bloomsbury partners with Arabic publishers Kalimat
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Bloomsbury will partner with Arabic publisher the Kalimat Group in an exchange that will see the two publishers release a number of books in translation from each other’s list every year,...
Goodreads introduces daily ebook deals tailored to members
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Amazon’s reading and book recommendations platform Goodreads has introduced a daily email promotion program offering discounted ebooks tailored to individual users’ reading history, reports Publishers Weekly. Goodreads Deals emails will...
First authors announced for Byron Writers Festival
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist William Finnegan and novelist and memoirist Cheryl Strayed are among the first guests announced for the 20th Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 5-7 August....
NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners announced; Pascoe wins Book of the Year
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Bruce Pascoe has won the $10,000 Book of the Year prize for Dark Emu (Magabala) at the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, which were announced at a ceremony...
UK genre specialist PS Publishing introduces Australian imprint
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
UK genre press PS Publishing is introducing a new imprint, PS Australia, to publish Australian writers and artists. PS Publishing founders Pete and Nicky Crowther said they were impressed with...
‘The Vegetarian’ wins 2016 Man Booker International Prize
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
The Vegetarian by South Korean author Han Kang, translated into English by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books), has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. The winning title, chosen from a...
New Academy of NZ Literature to ‘promote homegrown writing’
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
The University of Auckland has launched the Academy of New Zealand Literature, a new body to promote NZ writing locally and overseas. Author and Master of Creative Writing program convenor...
Nebula Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
In the US, the winners of the 2015 Nebula Awards, presented in 2016, have been announced. Uprooted (Naomi Novik, Tor) won in the novel category, Binti (Nnedi Okorafor, Tor.com) won in...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 16 May 2016
Two children’s and YA titles are among the three new books to enter the bestsellers chart this week, with book one in Rick Riordan’s new ‘The Trials of Apollo’ series...
Ulman, Middleton named 2016 ‘SMH’ Best Young Australian Novelists
Monday, 16 May 2016
Two short story writers, Abigail Ulman and Murray Middleton, have been named Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists for 2016. Ulman was recognised for her debut collection Hot Little...
Porter wins £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Monday, 16 May 2016
Debut author Max Porter has won the £30,000 (A$59,190) Dylan Thomas Prize for the best English-language fiction work by an author aged 39 or under for his book Grief is...
HarperCollins US launches New Bookstore Development Program
Monday, 16 May 2016
In the US, HarperCollins has announced its New Bookstore Development Program, which will provide extra discounts and grants to newly opened independent bookstores. The program, which launches 1 July, is...
Australian Book Design Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 16 May 2016
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners of the 2016 Book Design Awards at an event in Melbourne on 13 May. The winning titles in each category are:...
Translated lit fiction selling better than English lit fiction in the UK, survey finds
Friday, 13 May 2016
A survey in the UK has found that translated fiction sales have almost doubled in the past 15 years, while the overall market for fiction has declined, reports the Guardian....
‘I Got This Hat’ to be read for 2016 National Simultaneous Storytime
Friday, 13 May 2016
I Got This Hat (Jol and Kate Temple, illus by Jon Foye, ABC Books) will be read at this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), to be held at 11am on...
Thirteen literary groups receive four-year OzCo funding; key orgs miss out
Friday, 13 May 2016
Thirteen literary organisations have received grants as part of the Australia Council’s Four-Year Funding program, worth $5.97m over the next four years. The recipients are: Journals and publishers Australian Book...
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