Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
New Zealand author and Auckland Writers Festival co-founder Peter Wells has announced the inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival samesame but different will run from 12-14 February 2016 as part of the...
Beaumont wins Asher Literary Award 2015
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Joan Beaumont has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Broken Nation (A&U). Beaumont was announced as the winner of the $12,000 award at an event in Sydney...
UK Society of Authors calls for higher festival fees
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has called on literary festivals to reconsider what they pay authors after survey results found most authors are being paid within the...
PwC report advises against changes to copyright law; inquiry submissions published
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
A PwC report, commissioned for the Productivity Commission’s intellectual property review, has advised against changing Australian copyright law to the US-style ‘fair use’ approach, reports the Australian Financial Review. The...
Pantera Press signs first international rights deal
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...
‘The Lifted Brow’ expands to book publishing, aquires debut novel
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) will publish Melbourne-based writer and TLB contributor Briohny Doyle’s debut novel in August 2016 as the magazine expands its scope to include book publishing. Doyle’s as-yet-untitled novel...
255 jobs at risk as PRH UK proposes closure of warehouse
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is proposing to close its distribution centre in Rugby, potentially resulting in 255 job losses, reports the Bookseller. PRH said the move was...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Monday, 7 December 2015
The 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)...
Senate committee recommends government restore full funding to Australia Council
Monday, 7 December 2015
A senate committee has recommended the federal government restore the full amount of funding stripped from the Australia Council in the 2015-16 budget in its report on the impact of...
Pan Mac to launch Oprah Winfrey imprint, publish memoir
Monday, 7 December 2015
Pan Macmillan’s Flatiron Books will launch a nonfiction imprint in 2017 with books chosen by Oprah Winfrey, beginning with Winfrey’s memoir The Life You Want, reports Publishers Weekly. Flatiron president...
Australian, NZ art books awarded
Monday, 7 December 2015
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)—the professional body for Australian and New Zealand art historians—has announced the winners of its annual prizes. The AAANZ Prizes ‘honour the...
Express Media Awards 2015 winners announced, Kat Muscat fellowship launched
Friday, 4 December 2015
The winners of the 2015 Express Media Awards have been announced. Ellen van Neerven and Chloe Higgins jointly won the inaugural Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary...
UK creative industries launch campaign to tackle copyright infringement
Friday, 4 December 2015
In the UK, content creators from books, film, TV, music and games have launched a ‘government-backed, multi-million pound education and TV advertising campaign’ to tackle copyright infringement, reports the Bookseller....
Mullins wins 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 4 December 2015
Canberra-based writer Patrick Mullins has won the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Mullins was selected from a shortlist of six for his entry ‘A Liberal View’, a political history that examines the...
Book Depository begins dispatching from Australia
Friday, 4 December 2015
Amazon-owned online retailer the Book Depository has begun dispatching books from Australia, with delivery to metropolitan Victoria estimated at one-to-two business days and metropolitan NSW and South Australia at two-to-three...
International library news
Friday, 4 December 2015
PRH consolidates library ebook terms Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced that all ebooks sold to libraries in the US and Canada from 2016 will be supplied under the Random...
‘The Straight Dope’, ‘Quarterly Essay: Blood Year’ win Walkley Awards
Friday, 4 December 2015
Chip Le Grand’s The Straight Dope (MUP) has won the 2015 Walkley Book Award and David Kilcullen’s ‘Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State’ (Black Inc.) has...
New CFO, internal promotions at PRH ANZ
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia and New Zealand has announced a number of internal promotions and the appointment of a new chief financial officer. Incoming CFO Richard Alweyn will begin...
Picture book wins Waterstones Book of the Year
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Children’s picture book The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Particular Books) has won the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2015, reports the Bookseller. Bickford-Smith’s ‘elegant fable’ was...
Asher Award 2015 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 December 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Asher Literary Award, presented to a female writer whose work carries an anti-war theme, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Broken Nation (Joan Beaumont,...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2015 winners announced
Thursday, 3 December 2015
The winners of this year’s Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes were announced at a ceremony at Government House in Hobart on 2 December. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania...
‘The Girl on the Train’ tops ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ poll
Thursday, 3 December 2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Doubleday) has topped a reader poll by ABC’s The Book Club to select the five best books of 2015. Also in the top...
Rogers appointed ASA executive director
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Murdoch Books CEO and former president of the Australian Publishers Association Juliet Rogers has been appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Rogers replaces Angelo Loukakis,...
‘The Straight Dope’ wins inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The Straight Dope by journalist Chip Le Grand (MUP) has won the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award. Le Grand’s book, which was chosen from a shortlist of...
International library news
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
US study finds low levels of digital borrowing In the US, a new report from the Book Industry Study Group and the American Library Association has found that library users...
ACT libraries to trial anti-cyberbullying program
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Libraries ACT is trialling a six-month pilot program to tackle cyberbullying and improve online safety for young people. The eSafe spaces pilot program is offered through the federal government’s Office...
Christmas closing list: Final chance to submit dates
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm on Friday 4 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s...
Christmas closing list 2015
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Company Last day of business in 2015 First day of business in 2016 Allen & Unwin Thursday 24 December (Closing 1pm) Monday 4 January Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) Closed public...
Black joins the Wheeler Centre
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Crikey editor Sophie Black has joined the Wheeler Centre as head of programming while Emily Sexton is on maternity leave. Black was most recently editor-in-chief at Private Media, which...
Arthur joins HarperCollins
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
HarperCollins has appointed Jaki Arthur as head of marketing communications in its general books division. In the newly created role, Arthur will cover local and international fiction and nonfiction titles...
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