Wroclaw, Poland announced as World Book Capital City 2016
Friday, 4 July 2014
Wroclaw in Poland has been announced as World Book Capital City 2016 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Candidate cities, which also included Brasília in Brazil, Montilla...
Foster leaves Walker Books
Friday, 4 July 2014
Walker Books has announced that Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher for Walker Books Australia and New Zealand, has left the company. Her last day was on 4 July.‘It is with great...
Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell dies in surfing accident
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Matt Richell, CEO of Hachette Australia and chairman of Hachette New Zealand, has died in a surfing accident in Sydney on 2 July.Hachette Australia said in a statement on 3...
World Book Night US suspended for 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
World Book Night US has been suspended after failing to secure funding from outside the industry, reports the Bookseller. The event, which started in 2011, follows the format of the...
Mission—Impossible Quest: Kate Forsyth on ‘Escape from Wolfhaven Castle’
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Kate Forsyth’s Escape from Wolfhaven Castle is the first book in the ‘Impossible Quest’ fantasy series that blends old-fashioned storytelling with online games and competitions. Sarah Coull spoke to the...
The fun of the fair: Angela Crocombe visits BookExpo America
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Readings bookseller Angela Crocombe visited this year’s BookExpo America courtesy of the Readings Scholarship. She writes that realistic teen fiction, a new US school curriculum and digital subscription models were...
Booktopia wins Telstra Business Award
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the Telstra Business Awards in the medium-sized category for New South Wales. This is the fourth time that Booktopia has been named a finalist and...
Penguin US to release book with ‘duelling covers’
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the US, Penguin imprint Berkley is publishing one of its ‘major summer releases’ with two different covers and two different ISBNs, reports Publishers Weekly. Radhika Sanghani’s Virgin, a novel...
Wrights Bookshop reopens as Paper Plus franchise
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Wrights Bookshop in Cambridge, New Zealand, has rebranded as a Paper Plus franchise. Owner Hamish Wright told Books+Publishing that there were a number of reasons for joining the Paper Plus...
CWA Dagger Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 Dagger Awards, reports the Bookseller. Little, Brown editor-in-chief Antonia Hodgson won the Historical Dagger for The...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
‘When you go into a bookstore or shop online, start paying attention to the faces on the covers and the names of authors. Are you seeing the complexity and diversity...
Rainbow Book Agencies, Mosaic Resources and Press enter liquidation
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Melbourne-based book distributor Rainbow Book Agencies and its retail and publishing arm, Mosaic Resources and Mosaic Press, have ceased trading and have entered liquidation.Greg Shilton has been appointed as the...
ABA launches new website and ‘Australia’s 50 Favourite Kids’ Books’ promotion
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched a new website and a new promotion for National Bookshop Day.The new website is more directly targeted at the general public, with a tool...
New Zealand librarians launch online magazine ‘Weve’
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
New Zealand librarians Sally Pewhairangi and Megan Ingle, founders of the Heroes Mingle partnership, have launched an online magazine about the library industry. Weve’s first issue includes articles on massive...
SLQ releases discussion paper for 2020
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
State Library of Queensland (SLQ) released its ‘SLQ2020 Discussion Paper’ on 26 June and is seeking community involvement to help shape the library’s next five years. According to the library’s...
Librarians discuss popular culture at PopCAANZ 2014
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
The fifth annual international conference of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) was held on 18-20 June in Hobart, Tasmania. The conference attracted delegates from across...
Program announced for 2014 LIANZA conference
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced the program for its annual conference, to be held in Auckland on 12-15 October. Prominent local and international...
RiP Dermot Healy
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Irish writer and poet Dermot Healy has died, aged 66. Clare Conville from Conville & Walsh Literary Agency writes:‘[Dermot Healy was] an uncompromisingly brilliant writer in the tradition of Samuel...
Open Pitches website to match topics to writers
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
A new website has launched to help editors find writers for particular topics. The Open Pitches Tumblr was created following a conversation on Twitter involving Zora Sanders, editor of Meanjin, and Simon Collinson, online editor of the Lifted Brow,...
Andrew Carnegie Medals 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The American Library Association has announced the winners of the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals. Donna Tartt won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Goldfinch (Abacus) and...
ACT Book of the Year eligibility changed
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Entrants to the 2014 ACT Book of the Year award must reside within the ACT’s boundaries under changes made to the award’s guidelines. Previously, entries were open to authors living...
French Parliament passes law banning free shipping from online booksellers
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
The French Parliament has passed a law banning online book retailers from offering free shipping to customers, reports French Culture. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the bill was unanimously passed...
Book Expo Australia evolved into ‘writers festival meets Comic Con’, tickets on sale
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Tickets are now on sale for Book Expo Australia, a new event established to promote the Australian book industry, which will take place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August. The...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda Alexandra). Text has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) and French rights to The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw) to Tinder...
Hellen appointed publisher at A&U NZ
Monday, 30 June 2014
Jenny Hellen has been appointed to the newly created position of publisher at Allen & Unwin New Zealand.Hallen joins the company from Random House New Zealand, where she has worked...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 30 June 2014
The standard edition of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) and the film tie-in edition of the same title are first and second respectively on the bestsellers chart...
Jaivin wins 2014 NSW Writers’ Fellowship
Monday, 30 June 2014
Sydney writer Linda Jaivin has won the NSW Writers’ Fellowship for mid-career and established writers, offered annually by Arts NSW. The $30,000 fellowship will allow her to research her new...
Pearson tops global publishing ranking
Monday, 30 June 2014
Pearson has once again topped the ‘Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry’, an annual survey of publisher revenues, compiled on behalf of Livres Hebdo, Buchreport, the Bookseller and Publishers Weekly....
‘ABR’, ‘KYD’ and ‘Lifted Brow’ among VicArts grant recipients
Monday, 30 June 2014
The Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow are among several literature-related recipients of the most recent round of funding from the VicArts Grants program. The grant...
Garner and Haigh to open Mildura Writers Festival
Monday, 30 June 2014
Tickets for the Mildura Writers Festival in regional Victoria are now on sale. This year’s festival will run from 17 to 20 July and will open with a session called...
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