National Readathon Day to debut in the US
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In the US, the first National Readathon Day will take place on Saturday 24 January. The event, which is sponsored by the National Book Foundation, Penguin Random House, GoodReads and...
Pearson adds $50m to Affordable Learning Fund
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In the US, Pearson will expand the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund by investing an additional US$50m (A$61m) to provide education to low-income learners in emerging markets, said the publisher in...
New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
ALIA announces new VP and board candidates
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that Patricia Genat has been elected unopposed as its new vice-president. Genat, who is director of ALS Library Services and president of the Australia Booksellers...
NSW state library seeks digital expert
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The State Library of NSW is looking to hire a ‘director of digital experience and chief information officer’ who can transform the organisation into a ‘centre for digital excellence’, reports...
Library Lovers’ Day celebrations planned
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Libraries around Australia will be participating in Library Lovers’ Day celebrations on Saturday 14 February. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which runs the initiative, offers a list of...
International library news
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Czech library network densest in EUThe Czech library network is the densest in the EU, according to a report in the Prague Post. Of the EU’s 63,000 public libraries, 5408...
‘Visually sophisticated, quirky, funny and daring’: Mike Shuttleworth reports from the Paris children’s book festival
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘France is producing some of the finest books for children in the world,’ writes Mike Shuttleworth, reporting from the Paris children’s book festival Salon du livre et de presse jeunesse...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘With e-books and e-readers, there was a crazy, massive spike in the past few years and it was scaring retailers. Now the e-book has 20 per cent of the market...
Last chance: Please complete our post-Christmas survey
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...
Digital Writers’ Festival announces events
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Digital Writers’ Festival has announced a number of events in the 2015 program ahead of the full launch on 4 February.The online-only festival, which is hosted by the Emerging Writers’...
RiP Jim Thorburn
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
James Alexander (Jim) Thorburn, former bookseller at Pocket Bookshops in Sydney, has died, aged 90. His daughter, Rosemary Thorburn, writes:‘Jim ran the Pocket Bookshops from 1959 to 1979 with his wife, Hilda....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Fiction—Giramondo has sold Indian rights to Carpentaria (Alexis Wright) to Navayana. Fremantle Press has sold US audio rights to Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (Annabel Smith). HarperCollins has sold French rights to The...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Please note that, due to the Australia Day public holiday on Monday, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 29 January.The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements is therefore 12 noon...
Adelaide Writers’ Week 2015 program launched
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 28 February to Thursday 5 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide. As previously reported...
Booktopia counting down ‘Australia’s favourite author’
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Booktopia is counting down the top 50 finalists in its annual ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ promotion. On 19 January, Booktopia began announcing the top 50 finalists, with 10 finalists revealed each...
Amazon Studios announces screening for Michael Connelly adaptation
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
In the US, Amazon Studios has announced it will screen drama series ‘Bosch’, the adaption of Michael Connelly’s ‘Harry Bosch’ book series, reports Deadline. The 10-episode series will premiere on 13...
Australian self-published author heads ‘Women Writing Women’ project
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Australian self-published author Jessica Bell is organising an international publishing project called ‘Outside the Box: Women Writing Women’, which showcases women writers who are ‘self-publishing as a mark of independence and integrity,...
S&S, HarperCollins launch direct-to-consumer programs
Monday, 19 January 2015
In the US, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have announced new channels for direct-to-consumer sales, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins has launched a pilot program with cloud reader Aerbook, which enables...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 19 January 2015
Fiction titles are dominating this week’s bestsellers chart. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage) reclaimed the overall top spot from Jeff Kinney’s The Long Haul (Puffin),...
Case appointed program manager at MWF
Monday, 19 January 2015
Writer, editor and bookseller Jo Case has joined the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) as its new program manager.Case, who joins the team in February, will replace program manager and schools’...
Digital Book Awards 2015 winners announced
Friday, 16 January 2015
The Digital Book Awards were announced in New York on 14 January as part of the Digital Book World (DBW) conference. Among the winners in the flowable ebook categories were...
NZ booksellers up 10.5% over Christmas
Friday, 16 January 2015
New Zealand booksellers have increased their Christmas sales by 10.5% in value and 8.6% in volume in 2014, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould said: ‘Figures from Nielsen show a...
Arthur launches arts agency JAM PR
Friday, 16 January 2015
Former Hachette campaign manager Jaki Arthur is launching a new Sydney-based arts agency.Arthur told Books+Publishing that Jaki Arthur Management + PR (JAM PR) will offer services such as books and arts publicity;...
The Wheeler Centre celebrates fifth birthday
Friday, 16 January 2015
The Wheeler Centre is turning five in February.Melbourne’s centre for books, writing and ideas will mark its five-year anniversary with a series of gala events throughout the month. The first is...
Local book sales up over Christmas
Friday, 16 January 2015
Local booksellers have recorded a boost in sales over the Christmas period compared to the previous year.According to Nielsen BookScan, sales were up 1.5% in volume and 0.7% in value over the 13...
New writers’ festival planned for Canberra
Thursday, 15 January 2015
A new writers’ festival will be held in Canberra in 2015.Noted, an offshoot of Canberra’s experimental arts festival You Are Here, is being pitched as ‘Canberra’s first ever experimental festival...
Ubud announces 2015 dates
Thursday, 15 January 2015
The 2015 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) will be held from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, and will explore the theme ‘17,000 Islands of Imagination’. Organisers...
Australian crowdfunded publishing projects raise $1.2m in 2014
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Crowdfunding websites raised more than $1.2m for successful publishing and writing projects in Australia in 2014. At Kickstarter, $609,182 was pledged to 56 successful Australian publishing projects, from a total of...
New ebook tracking and analytics platform demonstrated at DBW
Thursday, 15 January 2015
UK ebook discovery company Jellybooks has demonstrated its ebook tracking and analytics platform at the Digital Book World (DBW) conference in New York, reports the Digital Reader. The platform encourages...
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