Librarians offered incentives to move to NT as part of $50m government strategy
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
The Northern Territory government has announced a new initiative to increase the population of the NT, seeking to create 21,000 jobs and add $10 billion to the economy over the...
Getting the picture: Elizabeth Flux on the local comics industry
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
As librarians and booksellers report greater interest in graphic novels for children and teenagers, Elizabeth Flux explores the state of the local comics industry. When comics store All Star Comics opened...
Former CEO sues B&N for defamation
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Former Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO Demos Parneros has sued the retailer, charging it with breach of contract and defamation, reports Publishers Weekly. A lawsuit filed on 28 August included...
$60m invested into NSW public libraries
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
The NSW government has announced a $60 million boost to NSW public libraries, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The announcement, made on Friday, 24 August by Arts minister Don Harwin,...
A&U acquires UK rights to ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired UK rights to comedian Hannah Gadsby’s memoir Ten Steps to Nanette. A&U initially acquired ANZ rights to the book last year via Kevin Whyte...
Booktopia named Business of the Year at Telstra Business Awards
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia has been named New South Wales Business of the Year at the Telstra Business Awards. The judges said they were impressed by Booktopia’s ‘leadership in warehouse innovation,...
Dymocks returns to Midland Gate in Perth
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Dymocks has opened a new store in outer Perth shopping centre Midland Gate. Officially opened on 23 August, the store marks Dymocks’ return to Midland after the retailer closed its...
Last chance: ‘Books+Publishing’ book industry employment survey
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Books+Publishing is conducting research on wages in the Australian book industry for a feature article, which will be published in Issue 4 of Books+Publishing magazine. This is your last chance to have...
Amazon to merge CreateSpace and KDP
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Amazon has announced that its print-on-demand platforms CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) will merge, reports the Digital Reader. Authors are being asked to move their books from CreateSpace to...
Writers Victoria launches Publishability program
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Writers Victoria has launched Publishability, a two-year initiative to support emerging writers living with disability. Publishability will provide two authors with mentorship, editing, professional development opportunities, and financial support over...
Staff changes at Hardie Grant Egmont, Lewis appointed MD
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced several staff changes to its management team. Troy Lewis will move from his current role as director at Hardie Grant (where he was responsible for...
NZ Book Trade Industry Awards 2018 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 25 August. The winners in each category are: Bookshop of the Year Volume, Nelson...
Jacobson wins 2018 Thomas Shapcott Prize
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Poet Anna Jacobson has won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript ‘I know I may not escape unscathed’. Jacobson receives $2000 and a publishing contract with University...
New York Public Library initiates ‘Insta Novels’ on Instagram
Monday, 27 August 2018
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has established a program of public-domain literary classics produced as Instagram stories in order to test Instagram users’ interest in long-form reading, reports Publishing...
Gentill, Bailey win 2018 Ned Kelly Awards
Sunday, 26 August 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The Best Crime Novel was presented to Sulari Gentill for...
De Kretser wins 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘The Life to Come’
Sunday, 26 August 2018
Michelle de Kretser has won the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Life to Come (A&U). The Life to Come is de Kretser’s first novel since Questions of Travel (A&U), which won the...
Jameyson wins 2018 Lady Cutler Award
Friday, 24 August 2018
The School Magazine editor Karen Jameyson has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service...
US study finds digital media has displaced reading for teens
Friday, 24 August 2018
In the US, the American Psychological Association (APA) has released a report showing that for teens, the time spent online has displaced the time spent engaging with 'legacy media' such...
Harlequin announces commercial fiction fellowship for First Nations writers
Friday, 24 August 2018
Harlequin Australia has partnered with Flinders University and Writers SA to launch a new commercial fiction fellowship for First Nations writers. The fellowship is open to one First Nations writer...
Robinsons launches ‘Colour your world’ campaign with TV advertising
Friday, 24 August 2018
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop has this week launched a new campaign called ‘Colour your world’, led by a television commercial airing on Channel 10 in Melbourne. The campaign aims...
Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
Thursday, 23 August 2018
US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which was recently shut down, has returned under a .net domain, reports the Bookseller. The Bookseller reported on 22 August that the website was offering...
Rae wins 2018 Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Murray Rae has won the NZ$10,000 (AU$9120) Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award for his book Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place (Baylor University Press). Rae is an architect...
UQP acquires Mundell’s second novel
Thursday, 23 August 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to The Trespassers, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Meg Mundell. Martin Shaw from Alex Adsett Publishing Services sold rights...
Louisiana mayor wants library’s Drag Queen Story Hour event cancelled
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
In the US state of Louisiana, mayor-president of Lafayette Joel Robideaux has said he wants a Drag Queen Story Hour event planned at the Lafayette Public Library cancelled, reports Louisiana...
East Arnhem Land community library re-organises according to Yolngu culture
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
In Galiwin'ku, a remote community in the Northern Territory, the community library has replaced the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system with a system of organisation based on local Indigenous concepts. It...
UK family halts library closures in high court challenge
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
In the UK, a family has halted plans to close 21 libraries, after winning a high court challenge against Northamptonshire county council, reports the Guardian. The council is technically insolvent...
The secret diary of Shaun Bythell
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Shaun Bythell owns Scotland’s largest second-hand bookstore The Bookshop, Wigtown and is the author of Diary of a Bookseller (Profile). He will deliver a keynote address at this year’s Booksellers...
Screen rights to ‘The Nowhere Child’ acquired
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Australian production company Carver Films and US-based production company Anonymous Content have acquired screen rights to Christian White’s debut thriller The Nowhere Child (Affirm). Carver Films is known for producing...
‘Books+Publishing’ book industry employment survey
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Books+Publishing is conducting research on wages in the Australian book industry for a feature article, which will be published in Issue 4 of Books+Publishing magazine. We last conducted this survey in 2013 and received...
PRH acquires ‘Fixed It’ book by Gilmore
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired rights to a nonfiction book by Melbourne-based writer, commentator and journalist Jane Gilmore. Titled Fixed It: One Woman's Movement Against the Real Fake...
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