‘Financial Times’ 2017 Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,655) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted titles are: The One...
HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has acquired world rights to four books in a new adventure series by Sydney bookseller and debut author Jeremy Lachlan, in a six-figure deal that followed...
US library funding package passes House of Representatives
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In the US, a $1.2 trillion budget bill, including funding for a number of library programs, has passed the House of Representatives, despite an earlier proposal from President Donald Trump’s...
SLV partners with Redbubble on art competition
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has partnered with Melbourne-based online creative marketplace Redbubble on a competition for new artwork inspired by the library’s collection. The competition ‘#createarthistory’ aims to...
Google adds library ebook catalogues to search results
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In the US, Google has added local library ebook catalogues to its search results, reports the Verge. Previously, users needed to log on to a local library’s online system to...
Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers launched
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers (PFABW) was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on 12 September. The group is co-chaired by Liberal senator Linda Reynolds and Labor...
Greek Community of Melbourne partners with National Library of Greece on new diaspora library
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) and the National Library of Greece (NGL) have signed an agreement to create a Global Greek Diaspora Library to open in 2018, reports Greek...
APA to run Christmas ‘Book Industry Tipping’ competition
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Australian Publishers Association is running a Christmas tipping competition Each week, participants will be asked to choose which one of two titles will sell more than the other and...
Australian, NZ poets shortlisted for $20,000 Montreal International Poetry Award 2017
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Eight Australian and two New Zealand poets have been shortlisted for the C$20,000 (A$20,440) Montreal International Poetry Award 2017. Australians shortlisted for the award are S K Kelen for ‘Soldiers’;...
Sanna’s ‘The Journey’ wins UK picture-book prize
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
In the UK, Italian artist Francesca Sanna has won the 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture-book illustration, reports the Guardian. Sanna won the £5,000 (A$8,480)...
Scribe acquires true-crime book ‘Trace’
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights at auction to ABC journalist Rachael Brown’s true-crime book Trace, based on the podcast of the same name. The Trace podcast investigated the unsolved murder...
Longlists for the 2017 National Book Award announced
Monday, 18 September 2017
In the US, the longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. The three longlists for the adult awards are: Fiction Dark at the Crossing...
UK Publishers Association announces industry-wide diversity plan
Monday, 18 September 2017
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has announced a 10-point inclusivity plan, with the aim of increasing the percentage of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in the...
Voss Literary Prize 2017 longlist announced
Monday, 18 September 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: All These Perfect Strangers (Aoife Clifford, S&S) Dodge Rose (Jack Cox, Text) Our Magic Hour...
Bookselling Without Borders launches Kickstarter to send booksellers overseas
Friday, 15 September 2017
In the US, advocacy group Bookselling Without Borders has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a scholarship fund to send independent booksellers to international book fairs, reports Lithub. The project aims...
Amazon deletes hundreds of reviews of Clinton memoir
Friday, 15 September 2017
In the US, Amazon has deleted hundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, What Happened (S&S), reports Quartz. The book, in which Clinton reflects on how she lost...
2017 WestWords Varuna writers in residence announced
Friday, 15 September 2017
Western Sydney youth literature centre WestWords has announced the recipients of the 2017 Western Sydney Residential Program, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers House in the Blue Mountains. This...
Shortlists for Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes announced
Friday, 15 September 2017
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...
Australian bestsellers in August: Young, Pape top fiction, nonfiction charts
Friday, 15 September 2017
Colombiano, the debut novel by Rusty Young, author of the bestselling nonfiction book Marching Powder, has debuted in the monthly Australian fiction bestsellers chart in first place. Young’s novel was ahead...
Brotherhood of St Laurence to award two women’s writing scholarships; expands Hope Prize pool to $17,500
Thursday, 14 September 2017
The Brotherhood of St Laurence will award two Women’s Writing Career Development Scholarships, worth $5,000 each, as part of its second Hope Prize short story competition. Women writers who enter...
Audible launches in Canada, promises $12m investment in Canadian stories
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Audible has announced it will open a Canadian store and spend C$12 million (A$12.4m) recording Canadian stories, reports Maclean’s. Audible CEO Don Katz launched the audiobook publisher and retailer’s Canadian...
Man Booker Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Thursday, 14 September 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) History of Wolves (Emily Fridlund, Weidenfeld &...
Australian Reading Hour launched in Canberra
Thursday, 14 September 2017
The inaugural Australian Reading Hour campaign, which promotes the idea of ‘picking up a book and reading for an hour’, was launched at an event with Education and Training Minister...
NLA wins ACT Project of the Year award for digital replacement program
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the ACT’s Project of the Year, awarded by the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), reports PS News. The NLA was recognised...
WA ‘Better Beginnings’ literacy program honoured at Library of Congress awards
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The WA state government’s Better Beginnings literacy program has been awarded a Best Practice Honoree recognition at the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Since 2004, the Better Beginnings program...
East Sussex council proposes closure of a quarter of its libraries
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
In the UK, a quarter of all libraries in East Sussex could close under a new proposal from the council, reports the BBC. Seven libraries as well as the mobile...
Book blogger spotlight: Libretto Reviews
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Italian expat Erica Puggioni now lives in Brisbane, where she blogs about crime, literary fiction and fantasy at Libretto Reviews. ‘I am bilingual and so is my blog,’ says Puggioni....
Text acquires new Gail Jones, Craig Sherborne titles
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Text has acquired world rights to new books by Gail Jones and Craig Sherborne. Jones’ new novel, The Death of Noah Glass, is about a recently deceased art historian, Noah...
First recipients of Writers Victoria’s women of colour development series announced
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
The inaugural recipients of Writers Victoria’s opportunities for women writers of colour and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have been announced. The recipients of bursaries to attend Writers Victoria...
UK small publishers protest Women’s Prize fees
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
In the UK, a few small publishers have protested the publisher fees charged by the Women’s Prize for Fiction, claiming the the fees are ‘extortionate’ and pose a prohibitive barrier to entry,...
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