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Wednesday, 24 September 2014
‘I welcome a review of Australia’s competition policies but hope that international postage and GST on imports are given as much weight, if not more, than the removal of import...

Penguin Random House NZ announces new leadership team 

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Penguin Random House New Zealand has announced a number of appointments to its leadership team.Carrie Welch, general manger of sales and business development at Penguin NZ, will take on the...

WA Premier’s Book Awards 2014 winners announced

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Premier Colin Barnett on 23 September.Richard Flanagan was awarded the $25,000 Premier’s Prize for Narrow Road to...

Canadian ebook sales plateau

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
In Canada, digital publisher BookNet has ‘paused’ its consumer survey on ereading because of a plateau in ebook sales, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘The numbers we’re hearing for ebook unit sales is...

Fremantle appoints first patron

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Tonya McCusker as the inaugural Fremantle Press patron. Fremantle Press chairperson Ian Lilburne said McCusker’s role would focus on raising the Press’s profile in...

RiP Lorraine Giles 

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Lorraine Giles, client services manager at McGraw-Hill Education, has died, aged 68. McGraw-Hill Education writes:‘It is with deepest sadness we announce that over the weekend, surrounded by her family, our...

Two Dymocks stores close, two to open 

Monday, 22 September 2014
Two Dymocks stores in Melbourne have closed. The Dymocks Southland and Dymocks Fountain Gate stores, operated by franchise owner Jerome Adams, closed at the weekend. The Southland store opened in...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 22 September 2014
The film tie-in edition of Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Hachette), released ahead of the film adaptation on 2 October, has entered the bestsellers chart in fourth spot, and is this week’s highest new entry....

Amazon announces ‘Family Library’ Kindle feature

Monday, 22 September 2014
Amazon has announced it will allow users to link their accounts with family members to share content on the company’s Kindle ereaders. The announcement comes after Apple announced a similar...

Penguin US launches Cartoon Network imprint

Monday, 22 September 2014
In the US, Penguin Books for Young Readers will launch a Cartoon Network Books imprint in mid-2015, with books tied to shows owned by television company Cartoon Network, reports Publishers Weekly....

WA Premier’s Book Awards announced tonight

Monday, 22 September 2014
The winners of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will be announced tonight in Perth. Michelle de Kretser won last year’s Premier’s Prize. The name of the awards has since...

Moore to leave Curtis Brown 

Monday, 22 September 2014
Literary agency Curtis Brown has announced agent Fran Moore will be leaving the company.Moore, who has been an agent with the agency for 15 years, will continue to represent ‘a...

Booktopia recognised at ‘Smart Company’ business awards 

Monday, 22 September 2014
Austrailan online bookseller Booktopia has been recognised in the 2014 Smart Company business awards. Booktopia was awarded the Top Community SME category award, given to the business that has ‘demonstrated commitment...

RiP Antony Kidman 

Monday, 22 September 2014
Publisher, author and psychologist Antony Kidman has died, aged 75. Kidman founded the ‘Foundation for Life Sciences’ imprint, under which he authored many popular psychology books, including Stress, Coping and Social Support in...

‘Tiddas’ optioned for television

Friday, 19 September 2014
Anita Heiss’ most recent novel Tiddas (Simon & Schuster) has been optioned for television. Pursekey Productions has optioned the book ‘with a view to making it into a six-parter’, according...

‘The Lifted Brow’ to partner with ‘McSweeney’s’

Friday, 19 September 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced plans to partner with US publisher McSweeney’s.TLB publisher and editor-in-chief Sam Cooney told Books+Publishing that the two organisations ‘will...

National Book Award longlists announced 

Friday, 19 September 2014
In the US, the National Book Award has announced the longlists in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Titles on the fiction longlist are: An Unnecessary Woman...

Co-op announces new Charles Sturt store

Thursday, 18 September 2014
The Co-op campus bookselling chain has announce it will open a new Charles Sturt University store at the university’s newest campus in Port Macquarie. The store will open in early...

BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced

Thursday, 18 September 2014
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award. The shortlisted writers and their short stories are: Zadie Smith for ‘Miss Adele amidst the Corsets’; Rose...

Book adaptations among AWGIE winners

Thursday, 18 September 2014
Book adaptations are among winners of the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing, presented by Australian Writers’ Guild. ANZAC Girls, a six-part miniseries adaptated from...

 

 

 

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