Picador acquires debut by award-winning screenwriter
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Pan Macmillan imprint Picador has announced it has acquired local rights to a debut novel by award-winning Australian screenwriter Shirley Barrett.Barrett’s scripts include Love Serenade and South Solitary. She has...
NSW Prem’s adds award in 2015
Thursday, 2 October 2014
The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards will include an additional award in 2015. ‘For the first time, The Premier’s Translation Prize includes the Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize,’...
Finalists selected for Frankfurt digital publishing contest
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Five finalists have been selected for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Digital Publishing Creative Ideas Contest and will present their projects at the content and technology conference CONTEC on 7 October....
Myers made Europe head of Amazon Publishing
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Former Waterstones managing director Dominic Myers has become the head of Amazon Publishing in Europe, reports the Bookseller. Myers has a brief to launch new European offices, and will be...
Readfy launches advertisement-supported ebook service
Thursday, 2 October 2014
In Germany, Readfy has launched its advertisement-supported ebook service with a catalogue of 25,000 titles that can be read within smartphone apps for free, reports the Digital Reader. Unlike Scribd...
Goldsmiths Prize 2014 shortlist announced
Thursday, 2 October 2014
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are J (Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Cape), How to be Both (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton),...
Forward Prize for Poetry winners announced
Thursday, 2 October 2014
In the UK, the winners of the 2014 Forward Prize for Poetry have been announced. The Forward Prize for Best Collection was awarded to The Cartographer Tries to Map a...
ILF trivia night: Wednesday 5 November
Thursday, 2 October 2014
It’s on again—the annual Indigenous Literacy Foundation trivia night at Paddo RSL on Wednesday 5 November. Quizmaster Richard Glover will host the evening and there will be scores of fantastic prizes...
Osprey sells Watkins, Angry Robot and Nourish imprints
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
UK military history publisher Osprey Publishing has sold three of its imprints—Watkins (MBS), Angry Robot (sci-fi) and Nourish (wellbeing cookbooks)—to US entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld for an undisclosed sum, reports the...
Shriver wins 2014 BBC National Short Story Award
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
British novelist Lionel Shriver has won this year’s BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Kilifi Creek’. Shriver, whose short stories have previously been shortlisted twice for the award,...
Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Auckland up for sale
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
The Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby is up for sale, reports Booksellers NZ. Sheila Sinclair, owner of both the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch and the...
NZ book wins international design award
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Flatmate’s Handbook by New Zealand graphic design student Lauren Earl has won the Red Dot Design Concept Award, announced in Singapore on 27 September. Published by Awa Press in November...
New chair for Auckland Writers’ Festival board
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Sarah Sandley has resigned as chair of the Auckland Writers’ Festival board and will be replaced by deputy chair Phillipa Muir. Nicola Legat has been appointed deputy chair and Josephine Green has joined the board.
NLA to expand online and mobile services
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is redeveloping infrastructure to manage its digital collections and expanding its online and mobile services for library users, reports CIO Australia. NLA assistant director-general...
Malaysia Airlines victims honoured in condolence books at SLV
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Around 1200 pages of condolence messages have been bound into three books and handed to the State Library of Victoria (SLV) during a national memorial service on 24 September, reports...
International library news
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Connecticut library acquires walking, talking, dancing robotsConnecticut’s Westport Library recently acquired two robots, Vincent and Nancy, which will be used to help teach coding and computer-programming skills, reports the Wall...
Top 10 political bios of the past decade
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
How will Julia Gillard’s memoir measure up against her predecessors’? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of the bestselling political biographies and memoirs of the past 10 years. View...
Sparrow to leave ‘Overland’
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow will leave the role at the end of 2014 to ‘concentrate on his own writing’. Current deputy editor Jacinda Woodhead will edit the publication from 2015....
Featherstone to leave ‘Verity La’
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Nigel Featherstone, managing editor of online creative arts journal Verity La, has resigned. Michele Seminara, current editor and co-reader of poetry, will take over the position in 2015.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
‘It will help reach younger audiences with an expanded children’s and young adult program, live stream technology connecting the event to regional locations, and a new online resource of recorded...
‘The Bookseller’ launches prize for YA books
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
UK book trade publication the Bookseller has launched a prize for young adult books in response to a lack of existing awards. The first Bookseller YA Book Prize will award £2000 (A$3730)...
Centum Books and Sainsbury’s to develop exclusive children’s list
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
In the UK, Centum Books has partnered with Sainsbury’s to develop an exclusive range of children’s titles over a three-year period, reports the Bookseller. The publisher and retailer will develop a range...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 September 2014
There are few changes to this week’s bestsellers chart with familiar titles taking the top spots. The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) is in first place for the fourth week running, ahead of...
New research finds majority of young people prefer print
Monday, 29 September 2014
New research from the UK has found that 73% of young people aged 16 to 24 prefer print over digital and audio formats, reports the Bookseller. The Voxburner survey of...
Hachette UK to merge children’s divisions
Monday, 29 September 2014
Hachette UK will merge its three children’s divisions into the one business on 1 January 2015, reports the Bookseller. The new Hachette Children’s Group will combine Hachette Children’s Books, Orion...
Bloomsbury Spark acquires first Australian novel
Monday, 29 September 2014
Bloomsbury Australia has acquired the first novel by an Australian to be published under its ebook-only Bloomsbury Spark imprint. Vanessa Barnevald’s young adult novel This is Your Afterlife is the...
Sparrow to leave ‘Overland’
Monday, 29 September 2014
Literary journal Overland has announced that editor Jeff Sparrow will leave the role at the end of 2014. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Sparrow was recently awarded a Sidney Myer...
Tasmanian Writers Centre publishes children’s books
Monday, 29 September 2014
The Tasmanian Writers Centre has published two children’s books and may publish more in future. The centre has published When I was a Boy in Sudan (narrated by Sarafino Enadio,...
City of Sydney increases SWF sponsorship
Monday, 29 September 2014
The City of Sydney has increased its funding to the Sydney Writers’ Festival.The city will provide $360,000 in cash and $110,000 in in-kind support each year for the next three years....
‘Overland’ Story Wine Prize winner announced
Friday, 26 September 2014
The winner of Overland’s inaugural Story Wine Prize has been announced. ‘That inward eye’ by Leah Swann has won the $3000 prize and will be published on the label of a Story...
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