Barnes wins 2015 Thomas Shapcott Prize
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Poet and editor Stuart Barnes has won the 2015 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript The Staysails.Barnes receives $3000 and a publication contract with University of Queensland Press, which...
Higgins appointed Dymocks head of merchandise and marketing
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Dymocks national buying and digital manager Sophie Higgins has been appointed to the newly created role of head of merchandise and marketing.The change comes after marketing and loyalty program manager...
Indigenous Literacy Day today
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its ninth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 2 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.A number of booksellers are donating a percentage of their...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 31 August 2015
The 65-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) spends a second week at the top of the overall bestsellers chart, with enthusiasm for the series showing no signs...
FNAWN, Australia Council to showcase Indigenous authors at US book festival
Monday, 31 August 2015
The First Nations Australia Writers’ Network (FNAWN) will next week take a delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers to showcase their work at the National Book Festival in...
German bookseller alliance launches ebook bestseller chart
Monday, 31 August 2015
The German bookseller alliance Tolino has introduced an ebook bestseller list, with data received from all alliance member stores, reports Publishing Perspectives. The list tracks ebooks that are traditionally published...
Robinsons to open seventh store, new warehouse
Monday, 31 August 2015
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop will open a new store at Eastland shopping centre in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood in November.Co-owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing the Eastland Town Square...
2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows Announced
Monday, 31 August 2015
Writers Alexis Wright, Courtney Collins and Marieke Hardy are among 10 artists to be awarded 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years.Wright is the author of...
‘Jasper Jones’ filming to begin in October
Friday, 28 August 2015
The director and initial cast of the film adaptation of Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) has been announced, with filming set to begin in the Western Australia’s South West in...
NYWF 2015 program announced
Friday, 28 August 2015
The program for the National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF), which will run in Newcastle, NSW, from 1-4 October, has been announced. The festival will include more than 100 speakers for more than 80 events, including author Abigail Ulman (Hot Little...
Australian publisher of ‘Fifty Shades’ ordered to set aside $14.9m in lawsuit over royalties
Friday, 28 August 2015
A Texas judge has ordered Australian Amanda Hayward set aside US$10.7m (A$14.9m) for American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza, her former partner in The Writer’s Coffee Shop (TWCS), the original publisher of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series. ...
Gleeson awarded CBCA Nan Chauncy Award
Friday, 28 August 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has presented author Libby Gleeson the 2015 Nan Chauncy Award for her work in Australian children’s literature.The award was presented on the evening...
Amazon ebook deal with NYC schools postponed
Friday, 28 August 2015
In the US, New York City education officials have delayed a US$30m ($A41.7m) deal with Amazon for the company to provide students with ebooks after advocates highlighted the program would exclude...
Brotherhood of St Laurence announces new $12,500 short story prize
Friday, 28 August 2015
The Brotherhood of St Laurence has announced a new short story prize with a $12,500 prize pool, supported by Simon & Schuster and Readings.The Hope Prize carries a $5000 first...
Nonfiction festival Word for Word program announced
Thursday, 27 August 2015
The program for the second annual Word for Word Festival, to be held at Deakin University’s Waterfront campus in Geelong from 11-13 September, has been announced.More than 70 guests will...
Amazon UK releases first consumer report; Hawkins tops 2015 ebooks chart
Thursday, 27 August 2015
In the UK, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on The Train (Transworld Digital) is the bestselling Kindle ebook of the year to date, with Amazon revealing the top 20 bestselling titles...
Well preserved: Viva La Novella winner Jane Rawson on ‘Formaldehyde’
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Jane Rawson’s Formaldehyde is one of this year’s three winning titles in Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize. The book is an intricately plotted and warm-hearted tale about love, secrets and...
Low unemployment for librarians but labour market remains tight, ALIA report finds
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released its latest report into education, skills and employment trends in the library and information sector (LIS). The ALIA LIS Education, Skills...
Author Solutions lawsuit discontinued after out-of-court settlement
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
In the US, a lawsuit brought against Author Solutions, the self-publishing service provider owned by Penguin Random House, has been discontinued following an undisclosed out-of-court settlement, reports Publishers Weekly. The case was...
Low unemployment for librarians but labour market remains tight, ALIA report finds
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released its latest report into education, skills and employment trends in the library and information sector (LIS). The ALIA LIS Education, Skills...
Christchurch library project facing NZ$10 million shortfall
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
In New Zealand, the $NZ85m (A$77.3m) proposal to build a five-storey central library in Christchurch’s Cathedral Square has been postponed due to a shortfall in council funding, reports Stuff.co.nz Councillor...
International library news
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Library card a ‘must’ for all eight-year-oldsIn the UK, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has launched a ‘literacy mission’ saying that every eight-year-old child in England should have a library card,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry and Asia's New Geopolitics (Michael Wesley) to Overlook. Children’s—Scholastic Australia has sold South-East Asian English-language rights to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
‘Congratulations to them, as other groups were saying we’ll have a $20 minimum [threshold], but the booksellers stuck to their guns and said it has to be zero’—Council of Small Business...
Inaugural SLNSW Coral Thomas Fellowship recipient announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
The State Library of New South Wales has awarded its inaugural $75,000 Coral Thomas Fellowship to Rebe Taylor for her project: The Wedge Collection: moments of encounter on the Tasmanian and...
Come into focus: Viva La Novella winner Christy Collins on ‘The End of Seeing’
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Christy Collins’ The End of Seeing is one of this year’s three winning titles in Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize. It follows a grieving Ana, who travels to Europe to...
Skeletons in the closet: L J M Owen on ‘Olmec Obituary’
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
L J M Owen’s debut novel Olmec Obituary (Echo), the first instalment in her ‘Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth’ series, is ‘a cosy and rollicking tale in a sub-genre that is refreshing...
Collins to sponsor Melbourne literary readings
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Collins Booksellers has partnered with the bi-monthly SHORTS@45 literary readings at the fortyfivedownstairs arts venue in Melbourne.Collins marketing and communications officer Cosima McGrath told Books+Publishing the bookseller will provide funding,...
Voice control: Viva La Novella winner Marlee Jane Ward on ‘Welcome to Orphancorp’
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Marlee Jane Ward’s Welcome to Orphancorp is one of this year’s three winning titles in Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize. The brutal coming-of-age story is about 17-year-old Mirii Mahoney, who...
‘New York Times’ alters children’s bestseller lists
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In the US, The New York Times has altered its children’s bestseller lists so that hardcover, paperback and ebook titles are each listed separately in the categories of middle grade and...
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