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Costa Book Award 2014 category winners announced

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
In the UK, the Costa Book Award 2014 category winners have been announced. The winners for each award are: How to be Both (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton) in the novel...

Staff changes at ‘Books+Publishing’

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
The editorial team that produces the Weekly Book Newsletter, Books+Publishing Daily newsletter and Books+Publishing magazine has undergone some changes.Brad Jefferies has been appointed news editor on a full-time basis. Jefferies...

Griffith and Denton top 2014 bestsellers chart

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) was the highest selling title in Australia in 2014 with 232,900 sales, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.In a strong year for...

Please complete our post-Christmas survey 

Wednesday, 7 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...

UK, US 2014 bestsellers announced

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) was the bestselling book in the UK and US in 2014 in what was a strong year for children’s books in both markets. In the...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
‘I scour the publishers’ advance catalogues and never fail to be slightly surprised by how many good books are in the pipeline for the coming 12 months’—Stephen Romei rounds up...

Melbourne teacher launches $5000 grant for online writing 

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Melbourne teacher and blogger Philip Thiel has announced the formation of the $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing, aimed at supporting inventive online writing. The recipient will commit to producing 50...

Bestsellers this week

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
This week’s bestsellers chart is full of familiar titles, including a number of cookbooks that have risen up the charts over the festive season. Jeff Kinney’s Long Haul (Puffin) and Richard Flanagan’s The...

Zuckerberg founds online book club

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched an online book club and is being described as ‘this generation’s version of Oprah’, reports TechCrunch. Zuckerberg created the Facebook group page ‘A Year of Books’ after earlier...

Government whitepaper to examine online GST threshold

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Federal assistant treasurer Josh Frydenberg has signalled an upcoming government whitepaper will examine the GST threshold that applies to online overseas sales, in an opinion piece published in the Australian.Frydenberg...

Foley named Victorian Creative Industries Minister 

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
The recently elected Victorian Labor Government announced Martin Foley as the Minister for Creative Industries in December 2014, and has rebranded Arts Victoria as Creative Victoria. Foley, the Member for Albert...

WHSmith acquires Supanews newsagency stores 

Monday, 5 January 2015
Supanews has sold its chain of company-owned and franchised newsagency stores to WHSmith, reports the Courier Mail. However, Supanews managing director Adrian Gaskin told Books+Publishing his business had retained and continues to...

Sheahan-Bright wins 2014 Johnno Award

Friday, 19 December 2014
Editor, writer and academic Robyn Sheahan-Bright has won the 2014 Johnno Award for outstanding contribution to writing in Queensland.The award, which was presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) on 11 December,...

NSW State Library launches humour-writing prize

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the launch of the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing to ‘celebrate, recognise and encourage humour writing, and to promote interest in...

Publishers’ perspectives 

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Publishers are almost unanimous in reporting a boost to sales compared to the same time last year. Yet not all are getting carried away. While half of the respondents to...

Online sales, ebooks and ereaders 

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Online sales of print books have slowed somewhat for respondents in 2014, compared with Christmas 2013. While 45% of bookshops that sold print books online for Christmas 2013 said sales...

The books: Flanagan, Simsion, Kinney 

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Booksellers are less impressed by the books this Christmas compared to previous years. Only 65% of respondents thought the Christmas range was ‘strong’, compared to 95% who said the same...

Trade cautious about Christmas 2014 

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Overall, the trade is in a much more cautious mood for Christmas 2014 than in 2013. While only one percent are expecting a ‘disappointing’ Christmas (the same number as in...

Supply, stock, staff and sales 

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
As always, a number of booksellers have reported issues with the supply of books and speed of deliveries in the lead-up to Christmas, although most seem to be satisfied overall....

Grattan Institute releases PM summer reading list

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister.The list contains ‘books and articles that we believe the Prime Minister—or indeed...

ASA announces 2014-15 mentorship recipients

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2014-15 mentorships for emerging writers and illustrators, including the inaugural Edel Wignell Mentorship.The 12 applicants awarded mentorships are:...

HarperCollins finalist in Digital Book Awards

Tuesday, 16 December 2014
HarperCollins Australia has been named as a finalist in the 2015 Digital Book Awards. HarperCollins has been nominated in the adult fiction category of the flowable ebook awards for Lunation...

 

 

 

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