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City of Sydney to waive fines for overdue loans

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
City of Sydney libraries are waiving fines for overdue loans until 30 June 2021 following a successful eight-month trial, reports News.com.au. Fees will still be charged for lost or damaged...

Publishing delegation travels to Seoul and Beijing

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
A delegation of Australian publishers travelled to Beijing and Seoul in June to ‘research market opportunities for authors and publishers in China and Korea’. Nerrilee Weir, senior rights manager for...

Book Bonding closes Essendon store 

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Book Bonding owners Natasha Boyd and Mark Neicho closed their Essendon bookstore on 30 June after deciding to focus their energy on their Gisborne shop. Boyd told Books+Publishing that running...

HarperCollins acquires rights to Carly Findlay memoir

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Say Hello: How I Became the Hero of My Story by Australian writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay. Findlay, who has the...

‘Small Things’ wins 2017 Gold Ledger Award

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The winners of the 2017 Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels were announced in Sydney on the 19 June. The winner of the Gold Ledger was...

French publishing sales up in 2016

Tuesday, 4 July 2017
French publishing sales rose in 2016 by 4.25% to €2.8bn (A$4.16bn) according to figures from the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE), reports the Bookseller. Sales by volume...

Shortlist announced for National Biography Award 2017

Monday, 3 July 2017
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works are: The Unknown Judith Wright (Georgina Arnott, UWA Publishing)...

Persuad wins Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize 2017

Monday, 3 July 2017
Ingrid Persaud from Trinidad and Tobago has won the 2017 Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize for ‘Sweet Sop’, reports the Bookseller. Persuad’s story explores ‘harrowing themes of fractured families, death...

Sharjah named World Book Capital for 2019

Monday, 3 July 2017
UNESCO has named Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as the World Book Capital for 2019. Sharjah was selected for its ‘very innovative, comprehensive and inclusive nature’ of its application,...

German company acquires Pubnet, PubEasy

Friday, 30 June 2017
German service provider MVB Marketing, a subsidiary of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Börsenverein, has purchased the US bookshop ordering systems Pubnet and PubEasy from NPD Group, reports Publishers...

MUP withdraws ‘Cardinal’ from Victorian shops

Friday, 30 June 2017
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is taking ‘all reasonable measures’ to withdraw Louise Milligan’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell from sale in Victorian bookshops, following the Victorian Police’s...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

Friday, 30 June 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in August and September 2017. Our reviewers were very happy with the books on offer in this issue, with eight...

On tour: David George Haskell 

Thursday, 29 June 2017
Biologist David George Haskell travelled the world to explore the biological networks of different trees for his book The Song of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors (Nero). He is...

Colin Roderick Award 2017 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The...