Finalists announced for NZ’s Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The finalists have been announced for New Zealand’s Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Awards for 2017. The finalists in the two categories are: Published book Spilt Milk Yoga: A...
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...
Rockpool to expand North American presence with new distributor
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Rockpool Publishing has moved its North American distribution to Red Wheeler Weiser from 1 July in an effort to expand its presence in the US. The publisher was previously distributed...
Line-up announced for third St Albans Writers’ Festival
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
The line-up has been announced for the third St Albans Writers’ Festival, which runs from 8-10 September in the village of St Albans in NSW. Journalist Tony Jones will deliver...
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,...
New $1.27m Creative Victoria ‘Creator’s Fund’ to offer grants to artists, organisations
Monday, 3 July 2017
Creative Victoria has announced a new Creators Fund, which will offer grants of between $20,000-$50,000 to support individuals and creative collectives during the research and development phase of their projects....
Scribe to publish Sornig’s nonfiction book on Dudley Flats
Monday, 3 July 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to David Sornig’s Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp, a ‘social and psychogeographic history’ of the Depression-era shanty town west. The...
IPEd announces shortlist for inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
Monday, 3 July 2017
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the ‘Rosie’. The shortlisted editors are: Jacqueline Blanchard, for her work...
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...
NewSouth to represent Baker&Taylor’s Global Publishers Services in ANZ
Friday, 30 June 2017
NewSouth Books will represent Baker & Taylor’s Global Publishers Services (GPS), which provides small and medium publishers with international sales and marketing services, in Australia and New Zealand. GPS distributes...
Traynor wins NT History Book Award for ‘Alice Springs’
Friday, 30 June 2017
Stuart Traynor has won the 2017 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award for his book Alice Springs: From Singing Wire to Iconic Outback Town (Wakefield Press). The judges said...
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...
‘Guardian’ survey reveals sexism in publishing
Friday, 30 June 2017
In the UK, a Guardian survey of 80 women and 12 men working in publishing has found that the majority of women feel they are being discriminated against because of their...
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...
The Fictional Dimension: Bram Presser on ‘The Book of Dirt’
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt (Text, September) is ‘a remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing by a grandson intent on finding the truth about his grandparents’...
Bonnier UK romance imprint Totally Entwined launches online store, self-publishing platform
Thursday, 29 June 2017
In the UK, Bonnier Publishing’s romance imprint Totally Entwined has launched an online store and self-publishing platform called First for Romance, reports the Bookseller. The store will sell titles from...
Copyright Agency, industry groups launch new campaign against fair use
Thursday, 29 June 2017
The Copyright Agency and industry groups including the Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors and Books Create Australia have launched #FreeIsNotFair, a new campaign against the Productivity Commission’s recommendation...
Berry, Bruce win inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Vanessa Berry and Melissa Bruce have won the inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards for writing that was first published online or electronically. Berry won the nonfiction category for her essay...
Bloomsbury, bookstores mark Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Publisher Bloomsbury and bookstores around Australia celebrated the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on 26 June with in-store events and an extensive publicity...
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...
Millennials most likely to use public libraries: Pew
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
In the US, a Pew Research Center report has found that millennials (aged 18-35) are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other...
ALA, Google announce new grants program to teach computer skills in libraries
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced a new US$500,000 (A$658,200) competitive grants program to teach computer skills in libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. The program, which is...
Wavesound launches new audiobook, magazine and ebook app for libraries
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Wavesound will launch RBdigital, a new app where library members can access audiobooks, magazines and ebooks, in Australia on 28 June. The app combines the features of the current OneClickdigital...
Three Geelong libraries to stay open until mid-2018
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Three Geelong libraries have been offered a one-year reprieve from the Geelong City Council, which has backed away from its decision to close them by the end of September, reports...
Australia Council report finds decline in reading from 2013-2016
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The number of Australians reading creative writing has declined over the past three years, according to the Australia Council’s third National Arts Participation Survey. The survey found that eight in...
‘Ada Twist’ wins 2017 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts (Abrams) has won the 2017 Little Rebels Children’s Book Award in the UK for radical children’s fiction, reports the...
Twelfth Planet Press reaches $20,000 Kickstarter goal for new anthology
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Genre publisher Twelfth Planet Press has reached its $20,000 Kickstarter campaign goal to produce Mother of Invention, an ‘ambitious’ anthology of stories about gender as it relates to artificial intelligence...
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