CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Resource in Primary Education ‘Connectors’ fiction series (Jill Eggleton,...
Creative Victoria announces changes to organisation funding
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Creative Victoria has announced changes to its funding for organisations ahead of its 2017 funding cycle. Funding for the Organisations Investment Program has changed to four years for all organisations, up...
Affirm acquires ‘The Birdman’s Wife’ at auction
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has acquired local and Commonwealth rights at auction to Melissa Ashley’s debut novel The Birdman’s Wife from Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The novel, which...
UK PA launches social media campaign to highlight publishing careers
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) is launching a campaign across its social media platforms to raise awareness about the industry among school leavers, reports the Bookseller. Running for...
Government set to drop parallel importation restrictions on books; industry responds
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The federal government is set to repeal existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books after accepting the Competition Policy Review’s recommendations to drop PIRs. The government published a full response to the report on 24...
Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The winners of the Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners in the five categories are: Birth to three years Snail and Turtle...
‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’ optioned for film/TV
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The film and television rights to Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka have been optioned by Ruby Entertainment via Jacinta di Mase Management. Ruby Entertainment producers Stephen Luby and...
Children’s book sales up 20% in China last year
Monday, 23 November 2015
Children’s book sales in China rose 20% in 2014 and are up 13% in 2015 to date, according to figures from China’s book sales data company Open Book reported in...
Almond wins ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Monday, 23 November 2015
David Almond has won this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for A Song for Ella Grey (Hodder Children’s), a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Almond’s novel was chosen...
‘The Grapple Annual’ wins 2015 Most Underrated Book Award
Monday, 23 November 2015
The Grapple Annual No. 1 (ed by Duncan Felton), an anthology of prose, poetry, comics and art published by Canberra independent press Grapple Publishing, has won this year’s Most Underrated...
WAYRBA 2015 winners announced
Monday, 23 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Older readers The Maze Runner (James Dashner, The Chicken...
Victorian Rep of the Year 2015 shortlist announced
Monday, 23 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year Award. On the shortlist are: Mary Bailey, Hachette Gavin Burbidge, Penguin Random House...
PM’s Literary Awards 2015 shortlists announced
Monday, 23 November 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) In Certain Circles...
‘Illuminae’ film rights sold to US producers
Monday, 23 November 2015
The film rights to Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman’s YA novel Illuminae (A&U) have been sold to Plan B Entertainment—a US production company owned by Brad Pitt—and Warner Bros studio, with...
NZ to tax ebooks from overseas retailers from October 2016
Friday, 20 November 2015
The New Zealand government will collect a GST on ebooks and other digital products purchased online from overseas retailers from October next year. Revenue minister Todd McClay first announced the plan in...
Adelaide Writers’ Week named Best Community Event
Friday, 20 November 2015
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) was named Best Community Event at the 2015 Australian Event Awards in Sydney on 17 November. The annual award is presented to the event that best ‘engages...
Catalyst arts program replaces NPEA; $32m returned to the Australia Council
Friday, 20 November 2015
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under a third of the $110m...
Guidelines released for Catalyst arts fund; industry responds
Friday, 20 November 2015
The federal government has released the guidelines for its new arts funding program, Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund, which replaces the National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA). The...
Express Media Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...
FT Business Book of the Year Award winner announced
Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the UK, Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots (Oneworld) has won the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award worth £30,000 (AUD$64,300). ‘The book...
National Book Award 2015 winners announced
Thursday, 19 November 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories (Doubleday), a collection of six...
Inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival to launch in Melbourne
Thursday, 19 November 2015
A new writers’ festival dedicated to Indigenous writing will be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 February. Blak & Bright, the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival, will...
BBC launches year-long ‘Get Reading’ campaign
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the BBC will run a year-long campaign in 2016 to celebrate great authors and encourage reading, reports the Bookseller. The campaign, run in partnership with the Reading...
Nero launches children’s book imprint
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Nero will launch its children’s book imprint Piccolo Nero next month with the imprint’s first title The Two Acrobats. The book is written by Nero publisher Jeanne Ryckmans and illustrated...
Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2015 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The eight shortlisted titles are: Before, During, After (Richard Bausch, Atlantic); Book...
ABA, APA hold first roundtable discussion for independents
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) held a roundtable discussion with independent booksellers and publishers in Sydney in October, the first in a planned series of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘We joke that people are putting their ereaders on the top shelf along with their fondue sets’—Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould on the strong recent results for the New Zealand print...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Sales Fiction—Scribe has sold German rights to Please Don’t Leave Me Here (Tania Chandler) to Suhrkamp. Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Dutch rights to Delicious: Bake, Delicious: Simple, Delicious: Sizzle and Delicious:...
International library news
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Ebook loans from Danish public libraries set to double in 2015 In Denmark, more than one million ebooks are expected to be borrowed from Danish public libraries in 2015, double...
Plans for Wangaratta Library cause concern
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
In Victoria, draft plans to relocate the Wangaratta visitor information centre to the library have been criticised by the Friends of the Wangaratta Library Action Group, reports the Wangaratta Chronicle....
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