New combined website for PRH
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched its redesigned joint website. The site at www.penguin.com.au combines the previously separate Penguin and Random House websites under the one URL, with all previous...
First Bookshop Day planned for the UK
Monday, 15 August 2016
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) is planning for its first Bookshop Day for the UK and Ireland on 8 October, reports the Bookseller. The BA is encouraging stores...
‘KYD’ to end print publication, launch new awards
Monday, 15 August 2016
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced that it will move to digital-only publishing in 2017. The journal, which launched in March 2010, will release its final print edition...
Text acquires 2016 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Monday, 15 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the short-story collection Australia Day by Melanie Cheng, the winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a...
Robinsons to open eighth store
Monday, 15 August 2016
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop will open its eighth store at Fountain Gate shopping centre in Narre Warren in Melbourne’s outer south-east in October. Co-owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing the...
PEN/Nabokov award relaunched as literary prize for international authors
Friday, 12 August 2016
The PEN/Nabokov award has been relaunched with a renewed focus on international writers, reports the Guardian. The US$50,000 (A$64,995) literary prize recognises the work of writers born or residing outside of...
Bloomsbury announces plans for ‘Fantastic Beasts’ titles
Friday, 12 August 2016
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired the rights to several movie tie-in books for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and ‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’, ahead of the film’s...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Friday, 12 August 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Way to Amalthea’ by Michalia Arathimos ‘Satellite ride’...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ sets new records for Australian title
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has sold more copies on its first day than any other Australian book, according to Dymocks and Booktopia. At Dymocks, sales...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sells 212k copies in Oz in its first week
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript (J K Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, Hachette) has sold 211,898 copies valued at $5.49m in its first week of release in Australia,...
HarperCollins releases 2016 full year results
Thursday, 11 August 2016
In the US, HarperCollins has reported its full year results for the year ending 30 June 2016, which saw a drop in revenue of 1.2% to US$1.65bn (A$2.14bn), while earnings (EBITDA) fell 16% to...
Bookstores prepare for National Bookshop Day
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Preparations are underway for the sixth annual National Bookshop Day this Saturday 13 August, with stores around the country hosting events and promotions. The theme of this year’s National Bookshop...
Ryan, Kumschick promoted at Hardie Grant
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Hardie Grant Publishing Group managing director Julie Pinkham has announced two appointments that ‘conclude a restructure and set the agenda for the era ahead’. Roxy Ryan, who was previously marketing...
Israeli high court rules in library’s favour over Kafka manuscripts
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are the property of the National Library of Israel and not the heirs of Kafka’s friend and editor Max Brod, reports...
Small publisher spotlight: Serenity Press
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Serenity Press was founded in Perth in 2012 to create publishing opportunities for emerging Australian authors. Founder Karen Mc Dermott spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe...
Rowling to lend Harry Potter archive to British Library for exhibition
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
In the UK, J K Rowling will lend the British Library items from her personal Harry Potter archive for an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the book’s publication, reports...
ALIA calls for more teacher-librarians after flat NAPLAN results
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has called for greater emphasis on attracting, training and employing qualified teacher-librarians, after the 2016 NAPLAN national test results showed no significant change...
More than 70,000 attend Byron Writers Festival; Szubanski the bestseller
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Box-office takings were up 14% and more than 70,000 guests attended the 20th Byron Writers Festival, which was held from 5-7 August. The record crowd was ‘particularly gratifying for the...
Melbourne library could be shut for being ‘too small’: council
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Hampton library in Melbourne’s south-east suburbs could be closed by Bayside council following a review into the municipality’s library services which found the library to be too small, reports the...
Bonnier Publishing launches US division
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Swedish-owned, UK-based Bonnier Publishing is launching a US division as part of an ‘ambitious programme for growth’, reports the Bookseller. Bonnier Publishing USA will bring together Bonnier’s two US-based imprints,...
Birrell steps down as SWF artistic director
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) artistic director Jemma Birrell is stepping down from the position at the end of this year after overseeing the past four festivals. SWF chair Deena Shiff...
Leading Edge to hold standalone conference in 2017
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Leading Edge Books will hold its 2017 annual conference as a standalone event in late March, after four years of running the event in tandem with the Australian Booksellers Association...
NZ YA novel ‘Spark’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
New Zealand production company Miss Conception Films has optioned the film rights to NZ author Rachael Craw’s YA novel Spark (Walker Books). Producer Ainsley Gardiner said the company was excited to...
Report finds majority of US-based SF magazines not publishing black authors
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
In the US, a report has revealed that the majority of US speculative-fiction magazines and fiction sites in 2015 did not publish a story by black authors, reports the Verge....
‘ANZAC Heroes’ wins 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Maria Gill’s ANZAC Heroes (illus by Marco Invancic, Scholastic) has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young...
Wright wins Alice Literary Award
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
The Society of Women Writers have awarded historian and author Clare Wright the biennial Alice Literary Award for ‘distinguished and long-term contribution to literature by an Australian woman’. Wright, whose...
Voss Literary Prize 2016 longlist announced
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
The longlist for the 2016 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Blessing (Adrian Caesar, Australian Scholarly Publishing) Coming Rain (Stephen Daisley, Text) The Life of...
‘Mannix’ wins 2016 National Biography Award
Monday, 8 August 2016
Mannix by Brenda Niall (Text) has won this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW). Niall’s biography of the former Catholic Archbishop...
Booktopia set to list on ASX in October
Monday, 8 August 2016
Online bookstore Booktopia is planning to list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) at the end of October, with a proposed initial public offering of $150m. As previously reported by...
New Bridget Jones book due in October
Monday, 8 August 2016
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries, a new novel by Helen Fielding based on her columns in the UK’s Independent newspaper, will be published by Jonathan Cape on 11 October. The...
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