Asian, European markets discussed at VIP industry forum
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 18 May several...
Fifield clarifies govt stance on life of copyright; PIR petition signatories ‘surge’
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield has released a statement clarifying that the federal government does not intend to reduce the life of copyright to 15 to 25 years after...
Pomerantsev’s ‘anti-travelogue’ of Russia wins 2016 Ondaatje Prize
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘anti-travelogue’ of Russia, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible (Faber), has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in the UK. The annual £10,000 (A$20,320) prize...
Box office and attendance records ‘smashed’ at SWF; Pichon, Steinem among the bestsellers
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has ‘smashed box office and attendance records’, attracting close to 110,000 attendees, including 64,944 ticketed sales. This compares to 96,000 attendees and 52,873 ticketed sales last...
ALIA reveals Australia’s most borrowed library books
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2016 to mark the start of Library and Information Week, which...
Bonnier Australia to close its distribution centre, relocate office
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia, which includes the Five Mile Press and Echo Publishing imprints, will close its Five Mile Press distribution centre and relocate its Scoresby office to the inner-city Melbourne...
Ebooks increasingly factor into Canadian publishers’ revenue
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
A BookNet Canada report has found that ebook sales are becoming increasingly important to publishers’ total revenue, but fewer publishers now have dedicated digital staff, reports Publishers Weekly. The ‘State...
Scholastic opens library at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Scholastic Australia has opened a new children’s library at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. This is Scholastic’s third ‘Book Bunker’ library, with two others located at the Children’s Hospital...
Waterstones to close ebookstore
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has announced it will stop selling ebooks from its website and will instead send customers to Kobo for digital sales, reports the Bookseller. In a statement...
New SPN mentorship program for Victorian members
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
A new Small Press Network (SPN) program will match six Victoria-based SPN members with established publishing professionals for a year-long mentorship. SPN general manager Matthia Dempsey told Books+Publishing ‘many small...
MWF 2016 schools program released
Monday, 23 May 2016
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools program for 2016. This year’s program, which runs from 29 August to 1 September, features Magda Szubanski, John Marsden, Anna Funder, Alice...
UK government to tax adult colouring books
Monday, 23 May 2016
The UK government’s tax department HMRC has sent letters to several publishers requesting the 20% value-added tax (VAT) be paid on adult colouring titles, reports the Bookseller. In the UK,...
CBCA Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Friday, 20 May 2016
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Book of...
Bloomsbury launches B2B-focussed strategy; reports revenue increase for 2015
Friday, 20 May 2016
In the UK, Bloomsbury has unveiled a new strategy that will aim to reposition the publisher from a primarily consumer-driven focussed model to ‘a digital B2B (business-to-business)’ model by capitalising...
Lessac, Carnavas win SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Friday, 20 May 2016
Frané Lessac’s A is for Australia (Walker Books) and Peter Carnavas’ Blue Whale Blues (New Frontier) have jointly-won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards shortlist announced today
Friday, 20 May 2016
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will announce the shortlist for its Book of the Year Awards at 12pm today (20 May) at the CBCA National Conference in Sydney. The CBCA...
A&U, NewSouth win industry awards at 2016 ABIAs; Szubanski’s ‘Reckoning’ named Book of the Year
Friday, 20 May 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 19 May. Allen & Unwin was awarded Publisher of the Year and NewSouth Books was...
BBC education app promotion concerns UK publishers
Thursday, 19 May 2016
In the UK, educational publishers have expressed concerns over the BBC’s study revision platform Bitesize, arguing that the reach of the app through promotion on the broadcaster’s various platforms is anticompetitive...
Penguin Random House opens bookstore in Puerto Rico
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has opened a bookstore in US territory Puerto Rico, in partnership with local bookseller The Bookmark, reports the Digital Reader. The store contains 1000 PRH titles...
Creative Victoria announces new VicArts recipients
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Creative Victoria has announced the latest round of VicArts Grants recipients. The program will provide $1.6m in funding for 96 creative projects by independent artists and arts organisations in Victoria....
Tennant wins 2016 Finch Memoir Prize
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Mary Tennant has won the 2016 Finch Memoir Prize, worth $10,000, for her manuscript I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes. The publisher said Tennant’s manuscript is ‘a powerful story about...
ABIA People’s Choice Awards winners announced
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) reader’s choice awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: General fiction book of the year Close Your...
Jobs lost at Mandurah libraries after self-service system adopted
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Three full-time positions at Mandurah City Council libraries in Western Australia will be lost following the adoption of a new book self-service check-out system, reports the Mandurah Mail. The city...
Nineteen NSW ‘super councils’ created after amalgamations
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The New South Wales state government has sacked almost 400 councillors from 42 councils and placed 19 new councils under administrators and interim general managers as part of its council...
NLA acquires inscribed copy of Patrick White’s first book
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has acquired an inscribed copy of Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s first book, Thirteen Poems, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. White’s mother Ruth published around...
Funds set aside for planned Clayton South library
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Kingston City Council has set aside funds in its 2016-17 draft budget for the planned $9m Westall Hub, comprising a library, child and health services and legal aid, in Clayton...
New London Mayor Sadiq Khan petitioned over library services
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Poet Chrissie Gittins is petitioning new London mayor Sadiq Khan to support four libraries in the borough of Lewisham, where five libraries closed in 2011, reports the Bookseller. Gittins, who is...
Small publisher spotlight: Aboriginal Studies Press
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
ACT-based Aboriginal Studies Press has been publishing titles since 1987. Acting director Rachel Ippoliti spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in under 50 words....
Affirm signs an inaugural Varuna Mentorship Award winner
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Affirm Press has acquired the rights to Paula Keogh’s memoir The Green Bell after Keogh was one of three winners of its inaugural Varuna Mentorship Award announced in October last...
Bloomsbury partners with Arabic publishers Kalimat
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Bloomsbury will partner with Arabic publisher the Kalimat Group in an exchange that will see the two publishers release a number of books in translation from each other’s list every year,...
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