On tour: Meet the author Val McDermid
Monday, 21 July 2014
Val McDermid’s latest book is The Skeleton Road (Little, Brown, September). She is visiting Australia in September. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? Gripping storytelling with characters...
Wrapped up in books: Christmas 2014 titles
Monday, 21 July 2014
Brad Jefferies finds out what publishers have planned for Christmas.Jolly polliesThis Christmas brings a bumper crop of political biographies. One of the most-anticipated is Julia Gillard’s memoir. The former Prime...
Editor’s picks: Literary heavyweights and weighty fashion books
Monday, 21 July 2014
Literary heavyweights and weighty fashion books are on Andrea Hanke’s reading list.From the mastersColm Tóibín and Hilary Mantel have new books coming out in the next few months, which makes...
Your store: In good company
Monday, 21 July 2014
Instead of running a solo VIP shopping night this Christmas, Fiona Stager from Brisbane’s Avid Reader is planning to hold a joint event with a number of local retailers. The Shophop...
Talkback: The value of social media
Monday, 21 July 2014
Is social media worth the time you’re putting into it? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers.Catherine Schulz, manager, Fullers Bookshop Hobart:Social media is hard to quantify. It’s also hard to be consistent...
Shelf talk: New romance
Monday, 21 July 2014
Rural romance readers are spoilt for choice this month—especially if they love family dramas. Outback Ghost (Harlequin, October) is the third book in the ‘Bunyip Bay’ series by bestselling author...
At your service: Self-publishing support services
Monday, 21 July 2014
The boom in self-publishing has led to the establishment of a number of different ‘self-publishing support services’. Brad Jefferies reports.Support services for self-published authors come in all shapes and sizes....
Your store: Ask Agatha
Monday, 21 July 2014
Readings recently launched a book-advice column staffed by the ‘experienced and extremely wise bookseller Agatha’. Readers can email their questions to askagatha@readings.com.au and a selection of responses will be published...
Day of the dads: Gift ideas for Father’s Day
Monday, 21 July 2014
The first Sunday in September is the Day of the Dads. Tim Coronel rounds up some gift ideas for bookish dads. All are August or September releases. FictionFiction-reading dads have a...
Innovation, interrupted: Zoe Dattner on the trouble with digital publishing start-ups
Monday, 21 July 2014
Why do so many digital publishing start-ups fail? Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network, remembers the innovators. Back in early May, I received an email from a start-up...
Australia Council to adopt new grants model
Monday, 21 July 2014
The Australia Council is changing the way it awards grants.The changes will be implemented from January 2015. ‘The new grants model will support a more diverse range of artists, artistic...
Inaugural Marco Polo Festival of Digital Literature underway
Monday, 21 July 2014
The Marco Polo Festival of Digital Literature, an inaugural bilingual literary festival that brings together readers, writers and translators from China and Australia, began on 27 May and will run to 31...
Clunes appoints Hollingworth with Arts Victoria funding, announces inaugural kids festival
Monday, 21 July 2014
Clunes Booktown has appointed Sheila Hollingworth as part-time manager. The festival has previously been run by volunteers but has received funding from Arts Victoria to create the paid part-time manager...
MWF 2014 program launched
Friday, 18 July 2014
Helen Garner will deliver the opening night address at the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. The closing address will be given by...
Lonely Planet launches flights-comparison tool
Friday, 18 July 2014
Lonely Planet has launched a company-branded flights-comparison tool on its website.The publisher said in a statement that this is the first time it has hosted an ‘own-branded flight search engine’,...
Apple proposes US$400 million settlement in ebook pricing case
Friday, 18 July 2014
Apple has proposed to pay consumers US$400 million (A$428 million) in damages as part of its ebook price-fixing case with US states and consumers, reports Publishers Weekly. The consumer payment is contingent on...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2014 winners announced
Friday, 18 July 2014
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977, designed by Arch MacDonnell of InHouse Design, was...
Oduor wins 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing
Friday, 18 July 2014
Kenyan Okwiri Oduor has won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘My Fathers Head’. The story is featured in the collection Feast, Famine and Potluck, which was...
Byron Bay Writers’ Festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’ in regional roadshow
Friday, 18 July 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival will run a regional roadshow in the lead-up to this year’s festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’.The roadshow, which has received one-off funding from the...
Australian Book Design Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Best Designed Literary Fiction Book: A Girl is...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2014 longlist announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) The...
NZSA Best First Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles in each category are: Best First Book—Fiction Tough (Amy Head,...
Deraniyagala wins PEN/Ackerley Prize
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The £3000 (A$5487) PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography has been awarded to Sonali Deraniyagala for Wave (Virago), reports the Bookseller. The memoir explores the author’s grief...
The 17th storey: Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tribute to Matt Richell
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Robert Watkins has baked a coffee and cardamom cake. He is Hachette Australia’s commissioning editor. He says the marketing director is likely coming. The publishing director is already there. “Our...
OUP reports ‘impressive’ local growth
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recorded ‘impressive overall turnover growth’ in Australia and New Zealand, says OUP Australia MD Peter Van Noorden. Van Noorden told Books+Publishing the Australian and New...
Vale Matt Richell
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Matt Richell, CEO of Hachette Australia and chairman of Hachette New Zealand, died in a surfing accident in Sydney on 2 July.Former CEO of Hachette Australia Malcolm Edwards writes:‘Matt was different....
ABC Shop and Co-op recognised in retailer awards
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The ABC Shop and the Co-op were among the retailers recognised in the Australian Retailers Association’s (ARA) 2014 Australian Retailer of the Year Awards.The ABC Shop won the Australian Customer Satisfaction...
Walker Books promotes Van Den Belt, announces new appointments to Aus management team
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Walker Books has promoted Angela Van Den Belt to the position of president, general manager and commercial director of Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Van Den Belt was previously deputy...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
‘There should be no hard and fast rules concerning book reviewing. That’s because reviewing constitutes a worthy genre in its own right, one that should not be limited by guidelines...
Nonfiction festival launched in regional Victoria
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
A new literary festival billed as Australia’s ‘largest festival to showcase only nonfiction literature, writing and ideas’ will be held in Geelong, Victoria, in August.The Word for Word: National Non-fiction...
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