Australian publisher named finalist at British Fantasy Awards Archive
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has been named a finalist in the British Fantasy Awards. Letters to Tiptree, which is edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa...
HarperCollins US launches daily Facebook Live program Archive
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
In the US, HarperCollins has announced the launch of its daily Facebook Live program, which will see authors broadcast live videos to readers and take comments and questions on the...
Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2016 program announced Archive
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2016 festival, to be held from 13-14 August. Festival guests include Jane Caro, Sami Shah, Emily Maguire,...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Monday, 6 June 2016
The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female writer are: A Few...
Labor pledges ‘careful consultation’ on copyright, return of OzCo money Archive
Monday, 6 June 2016
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to ‘carefully consult on copyright’, close the Catalyst —Australian Arts and Culture Fund and return funding to the Australia Council as part of...
Israeli government repeals fixed price book law Archive
Monday, 6 June 2016
The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel National News. The law, which...
Bestsellers this week Archive
Monday, 6 June 2016
Four new releases have entered the top 10 bestsellers, with this week’s highest new entry Slow Cooker Central 2 (Pauline Christie, ABC Books) debuting in fourth spot; The Emperor’s Revenge...
Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Archive
Monday, 6 June 2016
Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize is presented annually to the...
YA Book Prize 2016 winner annouced Archive
Friday, 3 June 2016
The Bookseller’s 2016 YA Book Prize has been awarded to free-verse novel One by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury). Crossnan’s winning novel is about ‘conjoined twins Grace and Tippi, who, after years of...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now Archive
Friday, 3 June 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2016. Author Chris Owen and illustrator Chris Nixon’s picture book Pandamonia (Fremantle Press, August) received five...
‘Chasing Shadows’ wins UK Sports Book Award Archive
Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...
ABA backs APA’s Books Create campaign to retain PIRs Archive
Thursday, 2 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will join the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and other organisations to support the Books Create Australia campaign, which condemns the government’s plans...
Sleepers Publishing announces it’s not taking on new books Archive
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Independent small press Sleepers Publishing has announced it will not take on new books after 13 years of operation. In a newsletter, Sleepers co-founders Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn thanked...
Xoum appoints Grundy as associate publisher, announces new literary imprint Archive
Thursday, 2 June 2016
Sydney-based independent publisher Xoum Publishing has appointed Alice Grundy in the newly created role of associate publisher, where she will head its new literary imprint Brio. Grundy has more than...
Small publisher spotlight: Aulexic Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
WA-based publisher Aulexic specialises in books for children with language and literacy difficulties, launching its first titles in 2015. ‘Originally, we started as a simple home-school project to encourage my...
Bangkok to open 24-hour library Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
A 24-hour library will open in Bangkok, Thailand by the end of the year, reports the Thai government’s Happy Reading website. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration had last year announced a budget of THB$200m...
Shortlist for 2016 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Ironbark’ by Jay Carmichael: ‘an exquisitely poetic, stylistically sure literary novel...
Mitchell second author chosen to bury manuscript until 2114 for Future Library project Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
David Mitchell has been chosen as the second contributor to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, in which authors submit manuscripts to be buried until 2114, reports the Guardian....
Minimum wage to rise 2.4% following Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 2.4% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2016, bringing the minimum rate from $17.29 per hour to $17.70 per hour. The...
black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship 2016 winners announced Archive
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship has been awarded to WA writer Claire Coleman and SA writer Dylan Coleman. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from the...
Ostrovsky’s ‘Invention of Russia’ wins Orwell Prize Archive
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the 2016 Orwell Prize for his book The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books), an account of Russia’s post-Soviet transformation from 1985 to the...
Wilderness Society announces 2016 children’s book award shortlists Archive
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Fiction Thirst (Lizzie Wilcock, Scholastic) The River and...
New study finds self-published titles a ‘fairly large presence’ in ebook market Archive
Monday, 30 May 2016
A new Enders Analysis report has found self-published titles have become ‘a fairly large presence in the ebook sector’ but its market share is mostly limited to romance and speculative-fiction...
HarperCollins, Avenue Bookstore and BooksPlus awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference Archive
Monday, 30 May 2016
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Canberra on 28 May. HarperCollins was named Publisher of the Year from a shortlist that included...
‘Reckoning’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced Archive
Monday, 30 May 2016
Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning (Text) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2016 ABA conference awards night, held at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 shortlist announced Archive
Sunday, 29 May 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe) Leap (Myfanwy Jones, A&U) Black Rock White City (A S...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now Archive
Friday, 27 May 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in June, July and August 2016. The highest scoring fiction title was Liam Pieper’s The Toymaker (Hamish Hamilton, July), which...
Macmillan acquires self-publishing platform Pronoun Archive
Friday, 27 May 2016
Macmillan has acquired NYC-based self-publishing platform Pronoun, which provides digital books publishing tools and facilitates distribution through Amazon, Apple and other ebook retailers, reports the Bookseller. Pronoun, which launched in...
Affirm Press signs exclusive international agency deal with Kaplan/DeFiore Archive
Friday, 27 May 2016
Affirm Press has announced a deal with Linda Kaplan of New York-based translation licensing agency Kaplan/DeFiore Rights to exclusively sell rights to Affirm Press titles internationally. Affirm publishing director Martin...
Audio sales up 20% in the US Archive
Thursday, 26 May 2016
In the US, audiobook sales increased 20% in 2015 to reach an estimated US$1.78bn (A$2.48bn), boosted by a 34% growth in digital audio, reports Publishers Weekly. The results come from...
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