Flanagan on Booker Prize longlist
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) is among the 13 titles longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.The full longlist is: To Rise Again at a...
New Salinger title published
Thursday, 24 July 2014
In the US, the Devault-Graves Agency (DGA) has published the J D Salinger short story collection Three Early Stories as a print-on-demand paperback, ebook and audiobook, reports Publishers Weekly. DGA co-owner...
Gollancz to host sci-fi and fantasy festival at Waterstones
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
In the UK, science-fiction and fantasy (SFF) imprint Gollancz has released the program for its inaugural festival, which will be held in conjunction with London bookshop Waterstones Piccadilly, and will...
HarperCollins signs up to ebook bundling trial
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
HarperCollins US has signed up to an ebook-bundling pilot program with Canadian start-up BitLit. HarperCollins is the first of the big five publishers to partner with the company, which has...
New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014 finalists announced
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The finalists of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Victoria University Press) The Last Days...
Kibble and Dobbie awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian...
Book adaptations nominated for AWGIE Awards
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) has announced the nominees for the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing. Among the nominees are a number of works adapted from...
Bookworld launches online book club with parenting website
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Online retailer Bookworld has announced a partnership with Australian parenting website Stay at Home Mum (SAHM).The partnership will involve the launch of the ‘biggest integrated online book club in Australia’, which...
Whitcoulls announces Top 100 list
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Whitcoulls has announced its Top 100 list, as voted by New Zealand readers in 2014. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) is in first place, followed by The Book Thief...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
‘A bookshop should be a bookshop, right? If you walk in and don’t see books, you lose your faith in the business’—Craig Hildebrand-Burke argues against a radical reinvention of the bookshop in a blog...
Amazon launches ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Amazon has launched an ebook and audiobook subscription service called Kindle Unlimited. The company said in a statement that the service offers ‘over 600,000 books—available on Kindle devices, as well as free Kindle...
Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2014 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are:Young Readers Girl v the World: Sophie Bennett Saves the...
Facebook tests ‘buy button’
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Facebook has announced that it is testing a ‘buy button’ to allow users to purchase items directly from the newsfeed, said the company in a statement. The buy button is...
Report finds 31% of ebooks sold on Amazon are self-published
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
A report from lobby group Author Earnings has found that 31% percent of ebooks sold on Amazon over the past three months were self-published, reports the Telegraph. According to the...
Scribe acquires bookseller’s award-winning debut in two-book deal
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Scribe has acquired Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson, the winning entry in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Scribe acquired world rights in the novel...
Bray resigns from A&U
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the resignation of children’s book director Liz Bray. Bray, who joined A&U in 1998 following many years as an independent bookseller, was appointed children’s...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold US English-language rights to White Gardenia and Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); and Turkish rights to Flowers of Baghdad (Bruce Lyman).Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world (ex. ANZ rights) to...
International library news
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Self-published ebook platform launches in US librariesSelf-published authors can now distribute their work through a number of libraries in the US as part of the SELF-e ebook platform, a collaboration...
‘Les Misérables’ manuscript the centrepiece of new SLV exhibition
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Victor Hugo’s original 945-page Les Misérables manuscript is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the State Library of Victoria (SLV). The exhibition, ‘Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page...
Softlink announces new managing director and new projects
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Nathan Godfrey has replaced Kim Duffy as Softlink’s new managing director. Duffy said in a statement that Godfrey, who has been the company’s chief operating officer for the past five...
ALIA’s LinkedIn Professional Discussion Series underway
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) LinkedIn Professional Discussion Series was launched during Library and Information Week in May 2014, with the series hosted in turn by library professionals Hugh...
Blake to retire as Penguin sales director, Schwarcz appointed PRH sales director
Monday, 21 July 2014
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the retirement of Penguin sales director Peter Blake. Following Blake’s departure on 28 November, Random House sales director Gavin Schwarcz will take on the new...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 21 July 2014
John Green novels and Minecraft manuals continue to dominate the bestsellers chart. The regular and film tie-in edition of The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) are in first and second place, while...
Bruce Chandler Book Prize winner announced
Monday, 21 July 2014
Catherine Saxelby’s Complete Food and Nutrition Companion: The Ultimate A-Z Guide (Hardie Grant) has won the Bruce Chandler Book Prize. The prize is awarded by the Australian Institute of Food...
Gorton wins Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
Monday, 21 July 2014
Lisa Gorton has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria. The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of...
Frankfurt Book Fair launches competition to promote ‘visibility of the digital’
Monday, 21 July 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair and German Publishers and Booksellers Association have launched a competition to find ‘practicable, pioneering ideas for the physical presentation of digital publishing products and services, either...
App, app and away: Interactive ebooks and apps for kids
Monday, 21 July 2014
At home and in the classroom, kids are swiping their way through a range of interactive ebooks and apps. Carody Culver spoke to Australian publishers about digital developments in children’s...
Make it snappy: Ana Vivas from Snappyant
Monday, 21 July 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablet technologies. She shares her career journey. I grew up in a creative...
Shelf talk: Poetry lines
Monday, 21 July 2014
Spearheading UWA Publishing’s poetry for the next few months is the notable collection Poems 1957-2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann (July), one of Australia’s most distinguished living poets. Poems explores human nature...
On tour: Meet the author Meg Wolitzer
Monday, 21 July 2014
US author Meg Wolitzer’s first novel for young adults is Belzhar (S&S, September). She will be travelling to Melbourne Writers Festival in August. What would you put on a shelf-talker...
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