Express Media Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...
FT Business Book of the Year Award winner announced Archive
Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the UK, Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots (Oneworld) has won the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award worth £30,000 (AUD$64,300). ‘The book...
National Book Award 2015 winners announced Archive
Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories (Doubleday), a collection of six...
Inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival to launch in Melbourne Archive
Thursday, 19 November 2015
A new writers’ festival dedicated to Indigenous writing will be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 February. Blak & Bright, the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival, will...
BBC launches year-long ‘Get Reading’ campaign Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the BBC will run a year-long campaign in 2016 to celebrate great authors and encourage reading, reports the Bookseller. The campaign, run in partnership with the Reading...
Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2015 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The eight shortlisted titles are: Before, During, After (Richard Bausch, Atlantic); Book...
ABA, APA hold first roundtable discussion for independents Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) held a roundtable discussion with independent booksellers and publishers in Sydney in October, the first in a planned series of...
Quote of the week Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘We joke that people are putting their ereaders on the top shelf along with their fondue sets’—Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould on the strong recent results for the New Zealand print...
Armin Greder’s ‘Australia to Z’ Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘Alphabet books have provided insight into our priorities for many years, and Armin Greder’s certainly captures an Australia that will strike a chord with many’ … read Emily Gale’s full...
Kembrey wins NSW Rep of the Year for 2015 Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Jane Kembrey from NewSouth Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) NSW Rep of the Year Award, presented at the ABA NSW Booksellers Party in Glebe on 17 November. Stephanie...
CBCA announces 2016 conference program Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for next year’s national conference, to be held at the Menzies Hotel in Sydney from 20-21 May. The conference, entitled ‘Read: Myriad...
Costa Book Awards 2015 shortlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are: A God in Ruins (Kate...
ABC Books acquires rights to Mitchell Johnson autobiography Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, announced...
Analysts warn of additional Pearson profit warning after share price slump Archive
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
In the UK, finance analysts have warned Pearson investors are ‘increasingly concerned about the risk of an additional profit warning’ after the publisher’s share price fell 5.6% to 773.00p (A$16.56) on 12...
Bloomsbury acquires world rights to Melbourne duo’s picture book Archive
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Bloomsbury USA has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based author and illustrator team Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson’s Introducing Teddy, to be published globally in June 2016. In a statement the...
‘Guardian’ First Book Award 2015 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 16 November 2015
Six titles have been shortlisted for the UK’s £10,000 (A$21,394) Guardian First Book Award, including a poetry collection, a nonfiction title, a short story collection and three novels. Andrew McMillan’s Physical...
Bestsellers this week Archive
Monday, 16 November 2015
Both paperback and hardback editions of Old School (Jeff Kinney), the latest instalment in the blockbuster ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series, have climbed into the charts in their first...
The Book Bird opens in Geelong West Archive
Monday, 16 November 2015
A new bookstore, The Book Bird, has opened in Geelong West in Victoria. Owner Anna Tweed opened the Pakington Street store in October after previously working as a bookseller at Otago...
Maramenides joins S&S UK as children’s publishing MD Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
Former Five Mile Press and Echo Publishing managing director Alexandra Maramenides has been appointed managing director of Simon & Schuster (S&S) UK’s children’s publishing division. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
NSW Rep of the Year 2015 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s NSW Rep of the Year Award. On the shortlist are: Dianne Dipietro, Penguin Random House Kay Drury, Allen...
Faber to close its sales and distribution service for small publishers Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, Faber will close its Faber Factory Plus sales service for small independent publishers, reports the Bookseller. Clients of the service, which launched in 2012, including Lonely Planet...
IPG releases report into UK indie publishing sector Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
In the UK, the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) has found more than half of the surveyed companies believe their business is growing, reports the Bookseller. The finding was in its...
Macquarie University study turns to publishers Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
Macquarie University researchers are surveying Australian trade and educational publishers for the second stage of their three-year research project into the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors, publishers and readers. The...
Second annual Australian Photobook Award expands categories to cover trade, self-published titles Archive
Friday, 13 November 2015
The 2015 Australian Photobook of the Year Award has expanded to include categories for self-published and trade-published works. The awards ‘celebrate excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and provide...
Barry wins 2015 Goldsmiths Prize Archive
Thursday, 12 November 2015
In the UK, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone (Canongate) has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of six titles, Barry’s fictionalised portrait of The Beatles’ John Lennon ‘at a...
Jackson wins Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Archive
Thursday, 12 November 2015
New Zealand poet Anna Jackson has won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015.The fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, where Mansfield lived and wrote...
Wallace-Crabbe wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Goldsmith wins Best Writing Award Archive
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe has won the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding...
Bookish dates for 2016 Archive
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
January Jaipur Literature Festival: 21-25 January Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: (TBA) January February Taipei International Book Exhibition: 16-21 February Emerging Writers’ Festival Digital Writers’ Festival: (TBA) February Perth Writers Festival:...
HMH unveils line dedicated to science-fiction and fantasy publishing Archive
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will introduce a dedicated science-fiction and fantasy line from February 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. John Joseph Adams, who edited HMH’s first Best American...
More than 180 bookstores participate in first NZ Bookshop Day Archive
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
More than 180 bookstores have taken part in the inaugural New Zealand Bookshop Day on 31 October, an initiative launched by Booksellers NZ to ‘celebrate the unique place bookshops have...
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 Next page »
