Nielsen BookScan: Value up, volume flat in 2016 YTD; ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ the bestseller
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Nielsen Book general manager Shaun Symonds presented an overview of the market in 2016 at the Leading Edge Books and Australian Booksellers Association conferences. Symonds reported that value is up...
Close to 200 booksellers, publishers and authors attend 2016 Leading Edge conference
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Ninety booksellers, 75 publishing representatives and 22 authors attended this year’s Leading Edge Books conference, which was held in Canberra from 27-28 May. Leading Edge Books group manager Galina Marinov...
Minimum wage to rise 2.4% following Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review
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...
White elected president of ABA management committee
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) announced a number of changes to its management committee following its annual general meeting in Canberra on 29 May. Books for Cooks owner Tim White,...
black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship 2016 winners announced
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...
Wilderness Society announces 2016 children’s book award shortlists
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...
HarperCollins, Avenue Bookstore and BooksPlus awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference
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
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
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...
Affirm Press signs exclusive international agency deal with Kaplan/DeFiore
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...
Collins to open first company-owned store in Launceston, exploring other sites
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Collins Booksellers has opened its first company-owned store at the site of the former Fullers Bookshop in Launceston. Fullers Launceston owner Clive Tilsley and his family ran a bookshop at...
A&U acquires debut novel from musician Holly Throsby
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired the debut novel from Sydney songwriter and musician Holly Throsby. Goodwood, which will be published on 28 September, is pitched as a ‘compelling ride into...
‘Myriad possibilities’ explored at 2016 CBCA conference
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The 2016 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) National Conference was held in Sydney from 20-21 May under the theme ‘Myriad possibilities’, with stimulating sessions on picture-book partnerships, the role...
Asian, European markets discussed at VIP industry forum
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 18 May several...
Fifield clarifies govt stance on life of copyright; PIR petition signatories ‘surge’
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield has released a statement clarifying that the federal government does not intend to reduce the life of copyright to 15 to 25 years after...
Box office and attendance records ‘smashed’ at SWF; Pichon, Steinem among the bestsellers
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has ‘smashed box office and attendance records’, attracting close to 110,000 attendees, including 64,944 ticketed sales. This compares to 96,000 attendees and 52,873 ticketed sales last...
Bonnier Australia to close its distribution centre, relocate office
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia, which includes the Five Mile Press and Echo Publishing imprints, will close its Five Mile Press distribution centre and relocate its Scoresby office to the inner-city Melbourne...
Scholastic opens library at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Scholastic Australia has opened a new children’s library at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. This is Scholastic’s third ‘Book Bunker’ library, with two others located at the Children’s Hospital...
New SPN mentorship program for Victorian members
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
A new Small Press Network (SPN) program will match six Victoria-based SPN members with established publishing professionals for a year-long mentorship. SPN general manager Matthia Dempsey told Books+Publishing ‘many small...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NZ publisher Book Island moves headquarters to UK
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Children’s book publisher Book Island has announced it is moving its headquarters from Raumati South, New Zealand to Bristol, England in order to expand the publisher’s UK business. Book Island,...
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...
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