Small press titles dominate ‘Guardian’ First Book Award longlist
Monday, 17 August 2015
The longlist for this year’s £10,000 ($21,238) Guardian First Book Award has been announced. The longlist for the award, which is presented to the year’s best debut in any genre,...
Sadokierski replaces Ross as ABDA president
Monday, 17 August 2015
Designer and university lecturer Zoë Sadokierski has been appointed president of the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA).Sadokierski replaces outgoing president Alex Ross in the role. Scribe art director Miriam Rosenbloom was...
Inkerman & Blunt acquires five Nick Earls novellas
Monday, 17 August 2015
Melbourne-based small publisher Inkerman & Blunt has acquired five novellas by Nick Earls, to be published over five months beginning in June 2016. Publisher Donna Ward told Books+Publishing that Inkerman...
NZ Children’s Book Awards 2015 winners announced
Friday, 14 August 2015
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are:Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Singing Home the Whale (Mandy...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2015 shortlists announced
Friday, 14 August 2015
The shortlists for the 2015 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Bush (Don Watson, Hamish Hamilton) The...
Colin Roderick Award 2015 shortlist announced
Friday, 14 August 2015
The finalists for the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, have been announced.The seven...
Harlequin boosts HarperCollins’ full-year sales results
Friday, 14 August 2015
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has reported the publisher’s revenue and earnings rose in the fiscal year ending 30 June, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins’ total global sales increased 16% to US$1.67bn (A$2.27bn) for...
‘Captains of the Soul’ named Australian Christian Book of the Year
Friday, 14 August 2015
Captains of the Soul: A History of Australian Army Chaplains by Michael Gladwin (Big Sky Publishing) has won this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.The judges described the...
Pearson sells the ‘Economist’
Thursday, 13 August 2015
Pearson has sold its 50% stake in the Economist Group for £469m (A$992m) to focus on its ‘global education strategy’, reports the Bookseller. The sale, which is split between two...
New website for Fremantle Press
Thursday, 13 August 2015
Fremantle Press has launched a new website, which includes dedicated sections for schools and book clubs. The site, which is customised for mobile phones, emphasises reader engagement with authors through social...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
‘The rare newspaper articles are often scaremongering or derisory, accusing YA of being too dark for teenagers or mocking of adults who read YA’—Linda Morris on the grassroots movement #LoveOzYA,...
Elizabeth Jolley Prize 2015 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Australian Book Review has announced the shortlist for this year’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth $8000. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Borges and I’ by Michelle Cahill (Aus); ‘Crest’ by...
Russian publishing house misattributing Western journalists as book authors
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
A Russian publishing house has printed a number of books about Vladimir Putin listing prominent Western journalists as the authors, reports the Guardian. Authors Luke Harding, Edward Lucas and Donald...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
SalesFiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to A Million Windows (Gerald Murnane) to Black Sparrow Books. Acquisitions Fiction—Bolinda has acquired ANZ audio rights to Relativity (Antonia Hayes); ANZ and UK audio...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
‘The rare newspaper articles are often scaremongering or derisory, accusing YA of being too dark for teenagers or mocking of adults who read YA’—Linda Morris on the grassroots movement #LoveOzYA,...
Over $100,000 in library fines to be written off due to data transfer error
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Four Adelaide councils plan to write off more than $100,000 in library debts due to an error in the data transfer to the state-wide One Card Network, reports Adelaide Now....
International library news
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Harlequin audiobooks now available in US librariesHarlequin audiobooks are now available in US libraries via a new Harlequin Audio imprint, in conjunction with HarperAudio, reports Library Journal. Library users will...
Victoria’s Living Libraries Grants Program now open
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
In Victoria, a new round of the Living Libraries Grants Program has been launched at the newly refurbished Mansfield Library, reports PSnews. Under the program, all councils and regional library...
Graphic novel publisher Twelve Panels Press to launch this month
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Twelve Panels Press, a new graphic novel publisher based in Melbourne, will publish its first title in late August.The press was founded by Allen & Unwin publisher Erica Wagner, author...
Stella to launch schools program in NSW
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
The Stella Prize is launching its School Program in NSW on 9 September, with a free event in Sydney for teachers, librarians and students.The event, to be held at the Sydney...
Walker Books announces partnership with Old Barn Books
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Walker Books has announced a partnership with new UK publisher Old Barn Books, which will include Australian and New Zealand distribution of Old Barn Books’ children’s and gift book titles. Old...
Anger at Holocaust romance novel’s award listings
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
In the US, an influential romance blogger has criticised the Romance Writers of America (RWA) for shortlisting a novel at its annual awards about the relationship between a Nazi officer and...
‘Highest ever participation’ for National Bookshop Day
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The fifth annual National Bookshop Day on Saturday 8 August had the highest ever participation among stores, Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker told Books+Publishing.Becker said the level of...
Record crowds, book sales at Byron Bay Writers Festival; Gillard memoir the bestseller
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The 19th Byron Bay Writers festival (BBWF), which ran from 7-9 August, has reported a record crowd and a ‘roaring trade’ at its bookstore.Festival director Edwina Johnson said the festival generated its...
Stead named NZ Poet Laureate
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The National Library of New Zealand has named C K Stead as the 2015-17 New Zealand Poet Laureate.Stead, the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism, will...
LearningField re-signs OUP, CUP, Pearson
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The Copyright Agency has re-signed Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Pearson to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years.The three publishers join a number of other publishers offering ongoing support...
Ereader ownership increases to 28% in the UK
Monday, 10 August 2015
In the UK, the number of people who own an ereader has increased by four percentage points in the past year to reach 28% of the population, reports GoodEReader. The statistics, taken...
Ned Kelly 2015 shortlists announced
Monday, 10 August 2015
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing.The shortlisted works in each category are:Best novel Sweet One (Peter Docker,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 August 2015
The Mindfulness Colouring Book (Emma Farrarons, Boxtree) has unseated Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee, William Heinemann) to reclaim top spot on the bestsellers chart, as Watchman drops to second...
New magazine to focus on international children’s literature
Monday, 10 August 2015
A new magazine focussing on international children’s literature will launch in 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. The Read Quarterly is co-founded by UK-based children’s book specialists, Sarah Odedina, young readers’ publisher...
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