NSW govt cuts public library funding by 18% in 2018-19 state budget
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The NSW state budget has cut funding to public libraries by 18%, according to peak body Local Government NSW (LGNSW). The 2018-19 NSW state budget allocated $23.5 million to libraries,...
Mason appointed chair of NLA
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The federal government has appointed Brett Mason as the new chair of the council of the National Library of Australia (NLA). Mason—a diplomat and academic, as well as a former...
Copyright Agency sues NSW government after unsuccessful mediation
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
After an unsuccessful mediation last week, the Copyright Agency is pursuing a law suit it filed against the New South Wales state government last year over the non-payment of copyright...
Rapper ‘Loki’ wins 2018 Orwell Prize
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
In the UK, Darren McGarvey, also known as the rapper ‘Loki’, has won the £3000 (A$5547) Orwell Prize for Books for Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass (Luath...
Hardie Grant acquires Pascoe’s travel guide
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...
Goldin’s escape room thriller attracts six-figure North American deal
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...
Ventura acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Blanche D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series. The first two books in the series, The Young Lion and The Lion Rampant, will be...
Maguire’s ‘An Isolated Incident’ sold to UK
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
UK publisher Lightning Books has acquired Emily Maguire’s 2016 crime novel An Isolated Incident (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Lightning Books editor-at-large Scott Pack acquired world English-language rights (excluding Australia and...
US online sales tax ruling applauded by booksellers
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that online retailers with no physical presence in a state are required to collect tax on sales in that state, reports Publishers...
Dymocks Book Club launches on ‘Kids’ WB’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Chain bookseller Dymocks has partnered with Australian children’s television show Kids’ WB, from Channel Nine, to launch a monthly children’s book segment. Each month’s segment will feature a group of...
Allan wins 2018 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Lip magazine’s 2018 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been presented to Liz Allan for her story ‘Our Voices, Fierce’. Margot McGovern, on behalf of the judging panel, described the winning...
Law to edit ‘Growing Up Queer in Australia’ anthology
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019, Growing Up Queer in Australia, which will be edited by Benjamin Law. The anthology, which will be aimed...
Online bookstore stocking only debut Australian titles to launch this year
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
A new online bookstore that will stock only debut Australian writers is preparing to launch later this year. Non-profit group Underground Writers is establishing the new online store—called Underground Books—to...
‘Into the Heart of Tasmania’ wins inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Historian Rebe Taylor’s Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity (MUP) has won the inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, reports the Advocate. The...
ALA renames Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Monday, 25 June 2018
In the US, a division of the American Library Association (ALA) has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a children’s book award, over concerns about how...
Better Reading launches ‘crowd-sourced’ review platform
Monday, 25 June 2018
Better Reading has launched a new ‘crowd-sourced’ book review platform named Preview. Under the new program, publishers will be able to sponsor a title to be promoted to Better Reading’s...
Donovan appointed scout for FremantleMedia
Monday, 25 June 2018
Australian editor and consultant Philippa Donovan has been appointed literary scout for production and entertainment company FremantleMedia Australia. Donovan will be covering book-to-film as well as TV adaptations for world English-language territories, with...
Shortlist for ‘KYD’ 2018 Unpublished Manuscript Award announced
Monday, 25 June 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘Blindside’ (Beth Amos) ‘The Eulogy’ (Jacqueline Bailey) ‘What in...
Writers Vic announces 2018 Glenfern Fellowships
Monday, 25 June 2018
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern Fellowships. The fellowships were awarded to Anna Sublet for her book on grief and relationships, Melissa Manning for her collection...
New owner for Torquay Books; Featherston retires
Friday, 22 June 2018
Lynne Main has purchased Torquay Books in the Bayside area of Victoria from previous owner and manager Rosemary Featherston, who has decided to retire after running the business for 14...
NewSouth sells world English rights for ‘Wild Sea’
Friday, 22 June 2018
NewSouth Publishing has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Joy McCann’s Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean to the University of Chicago Press. NewSouth publisher Elspeth Menzies...
US audiobook sales up 22.7% in 2017
Friday, 22 June 2018
In the US, a new report by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) has found that audiobook sales experienced another consecutive year of double-digit growth, estimating that sales in 2017 were...
B&N posts $125m loss in fiscal 2018
Friday, 22 June 2018
US retail chain Barnes & Noble (B&N) reported a total sales decline of six percent in the fiscal year ending 28 April 2018, with revenue falling to US$3.66 billion (A$4.95bn),...
ASA Model Trade Publishing Agreement now available to SPN members
Friday, 22 June 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Small Press Network (SPN) have partnered to make a version of the ASA's Model Trade Publishing Agreement available to all full members...
Sherwin‐Stark appointed CEO of Hachette ANZ
Friday, 22 June 2018
Hachette Australia and New Zealand (Hachette ANZ) has announced that Louise Sherwin-Stark, current joint managing director, has been appointed CEO of the publisher’s ANZ arm. In her new role, effective...
Taneja wins 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Preti Taneja has won the 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists for We Are That Young (Galley Beggar Press). A reworking of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, We Are That Young is...
International authors announced for MWF 2018
Thursday, 21 June 2018
The first international authors have been announced for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 24 August to 2 September. International guests include musician Andrew WK, who will...
McDuling appointed senior content producer at Booktopia
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Booktopia has appointed Sarah McDuling to the position of senior content producer. McDuling is currently editor of Booktopia’s crime-focused and YA-focused monthly newsletters, as well as manager of Booktopia’s Tumblr...
SPN announces 2018 conference research day keynote
Thursday, 21 June 2018
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced Monash University associate professor Rebecca Giblin as the keynote speaker for the 2018 Independent Publishing Conference academic research day, which will take place...
Tauranga council to build NZ$35 million library
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
New Zealand's Tauranga City Council (TCC) will invest NZ$35 million (A$33m) in development to replace its central library, reports Sun Live. Tauranga Libraries manager Joanna Thomas said a ‘community hub’ model...
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