British Library partners with 21 major libraries for national knowledge network
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
In the UK, the British Library has launched a knowledge network with 21 major libraries across the UK to combine local expertise and organising power. The Living Knowledge Network, which is...
Booktopia shares priced at $2 each ahead of ASX listing
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Shares in online book retailer Booktopia have been priced at $2 each ahead of the company’s planned listing on the ASX, with management and sponsor brokers Morgans and Ord Minnett speaking...
Publisher draws criticism from Publishing Ireland for charging submission fees
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
In Ireland, a publisher’s decision to charge writers €100 (A$147) per manuscript submission, except those received from a recognised literary agent, has drawn criticism from industry association Publishing Ireland, reports...
Johnson appointed Murdoch publishing director
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Former Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has been appointed publishing director of Murdoch Books. In a statement, Johnson said she was ‘extremely excited to be leading Murdoch...
A&R marks 130th anniversary; holds first book poll since 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Bookseller Angus & Robertson will celebrate its 130th anniversary by holding its first national book poll since its bricks-and-mortar stores closed in 2011. The poll is open until the end...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2016
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth issue for 2016 is out now! It features 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in December 2016 to March 2017. Lucy Durneen’s short-story collection Wild...
Book bites: In the picture
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....
‘Griffith Review’, Queensland Literary Awards announce fellowship program
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Up to six Queensland writers’ fellowships will be awarded each year over the next two years under a new program launched by the Griffith Review and the Queensland Literary Awards....
NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2016 announced
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Atholl Anderson, Marilyn Duckworth and David Eggleton are the recipients of 2016 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, in recognition of their ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature’....
Sarah Jessica Parker imprint to begin publishing in 2018
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
US actress Sarah Jessica Parker will head up a new imprint at Penguin Random House’s Hogarth Press, called SJP for Hogarth. PRH said in a statement that the imprint will...
Overseas ebooks taxed in NZ as digital imports GST comes into effect
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
A 15% GST is being charged on ebooks purchased in New Zealand from international vendors since the country’s digital imports tax came into effect on 1 October. Other digital products...
New logo for Five Mile
Monday, 10 October 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint Five Mile has unveiled a new logo as part of its rebranding. In a statement, the publisher said the logo’s illustrative element ‘loosely references the...
Book sales up 20% in Ireland
Monday, 10 October 2016
Books sales in Ireland are up approximately 20% this year compared to the previous year, with the largest growths coming from nonfiction and children’s books, reports the Irish Times. According...
CHASS Australia Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Monday, 10 October 2016
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2016 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...
Canada to be guest of honour at 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair
Friday, 7 October 2016
Canada has been chosen at the guest of honour at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishing Perspectives. ‘The Canadian publishing industry has worked together for the past three years...
Educational Publishing Awards 2016 winners announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) Educational Publishing Awards for 2016 were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 6 October. RIC Publications was named Publisher of the...
Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
Dymocks has revealed its Kids’ Top 51 list for 2016, with more than 26,500 votes received from Booklovers members. The top 10 books on the list are: The ‘Harry Potter’...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 7 October 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains five reviews of books publishing in January and February 2017. The highest-scoring title was Mark Greenwood’s Diamond Jack, the first book in his new ‘History...
National Book Award 2016 shortlists announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
In the US, the shortlists for the 2016 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. On the fiction shortlist are:...
Bookshop-whiskey bar to open in Melbourne
Friday, 7 October 2016
A bar and bookshop specialising in Irish whiskey and Irish literature will open in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote in early November. Owner Eamonn Hennessy told Books+Publishing that the venue,...
Book bites: Teen talk
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...
Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....
School ties: Partnerships between bookstores and schools
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Danielle Binks explores different partnerships between bookstores and schools. At the 2016 Leading Edge Books Conference, the Best Business Idea award was presented to Amelia Lush from Better Read Than...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Publishers tell Jackie Tang about their standout titles for kids and teens in 2017, from plucky new junior-fiction protagonists to YA genre hybrids. Next year will see the launch of...
Under the microscope: Science and technology in the classroom
Thursday, 6 October 2016
A growing emphasis on science and technology in the classroom is presenting an opportunity for children’s publishing, writes Brad Jefferies. Late last year, Wiley introduced its ‘Dummies Kids’ line, a...
Between the lines: Gladys Bembo
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Brisbane Writers Festival made international news after the controversial opening speech of American author Lionel Shriver. In deciding to stray from her original brief of talking about ‘community and...
Shelf talk: New romantics
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Summer is the season for beach reads, happy endings, and an abundance of new titles from some of romance fiction’s bestselling authors. In December, Nora Roberts concludes her ‘Guardians’ trilogy...
Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nostalgia is very much the watch-word for pop culture at the moment, and sci-fi and fantasy are as gripped by it as everything else is. Anyone reading fantasy in the...
A life re-examined: Jeff Sparrow on ‘No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson’
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Jeff Sparrow’s book on African-American singer, actor and political activist Paul Robeson combines ‘essay, journalism, history and biography to produce something engaging, original and insightful’, writes reviewer Chris Saliba. He...
Your store: Blog brainstorming
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Companies that blog 15-plus times a month get five times more traffic on their websites, according to social media expert Yvonne Adele. This is because each new blog post offers...
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