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Saunders wins 2013 Story Prize 

Friday, 7 March 2014
In the US, the 2013 Story Prize, worth US$20,000 (A$18,160), has been awarded to George Saunders for Tenth of December (Bloomsbury). The Story Prize organisers said in a statement that the book was...

Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships 2014 announced

Friday, 7 March 2014
A number of writers have been awarded Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships for 2014.Scholarships for poetry were awarded to Jessica Wilkinson, Elizabeth Campbell and Candy Royalle. Wilkinson, a lecturer in creative...

Smart appointed MD of Ebury Publishing 

Thursday, 6 March 2014
Rebecca Smart, CEO of the Osprey Group, has been appointed MD of Ebury Publishing, part of the Penguin Random House Group, reports the Bookseller. Smart will take over from current...

Williamson appointed fiction editor at ‘Island’ 

Thursday, 6 March 2014
Geordie Williamson has been appointed fiction editor at Island magazine. Williamson, who is chief literary critic at the Australian, was announced as Island’s new fiction editor on 6 March. In a...

Ingram acquires etextbook platform CourseSmart 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
In the US, Ingram Content Group’s Vital Source Technologies business has acquired the assets of CourseSmart, an etextbook platform founded by Macmillan, Cengage, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson in...

Golden Kite Awards 2014 winners announced 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
In the US, the winners of the 2014 Golden Kite Awards for children’s book authors and illustrators have been announced. Better Nate than Ever (Tim Federle, S&S) won the fiction...

New appointments at S&S 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Simon & Schuster has announced a number of new appointments. Anna O’Grady has joined the publisher as marketing and publicity manager, beginning on 24 March. O’Grady was previously product director...

International Library News 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
UK public library elending pilot announcedIn the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) and the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) have announced a year-long public library elending pilot. Four public library...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
‘Publishers need to make a big hit with the first novel ... There is no longer a sense of publishers nurturing authors’—The Age literary editor Jason Steger reflects on the market...

Ebook sales up at Hachette in 2013 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Hachette Australia has recorded an increase in ebook sales in 2013, with CEO Matt Richell reporting growth in ebook sales of 27%. Ebooks now account for 22.5% of the publisher’s overall...

New Australian schools book club launched 

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
A new schools book club created to showcase Australian books has launched in New South Wales and Queensland. The Redgum Book Club will allow parents and students to order books from a large...

Dymocks Collins Place to close

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Dymocks Collins Place in Melbourne’s CBD will close on 7 March after almost 20 years of trading. The store, which is located near the larger Dymocks store at 234 Collins Street, first opened in May...

Galleguillos joins ILF board 

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Teacher and Indigenous education specialist Sharon Galleguillos has joined the board of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), replacing Martin Nakata, who has finished his directorship. The ILF said in a...

Amazon Publishing seeks staff in the UK 

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
In the UK, Amazon Publishing has said it wants to build ‘the world’s most author-centric publishing house’ according to job descriptions it has posted in an effort to recruit a...

New S&S website to highlight backlist titles 

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Simon & Schuster has launched a new website and email service that will promote backlist titles from all publishing houses, reports Publishers Weekly. The Off the Shelf website will publish...

UK Independent Publishing Awards winners announced 

Monday, 3 March 2014
The UK’s Independent Publishers Guild has announced the winners of this year’s Independent Publishing Awards at its annual conference in Oxford, reports the Bookseller. Children’s publisher Usborne Publishing won the Independent Publisher of...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 3 March 2014
Blockbuster film adaptations continue to dominate the bestsellers chart, with this week’s top three titles unchanged for the third week in a row. The film tie-in of The Book Thief (Markus Zusak,...

New Jewish writers’ festival for Melbourne 

Monday, 3 March 2014
A new writers’ festival celebrating Jewish literature will be held in Melbourne later this year. The inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival will be held from 31 May to 2 June at...

On tour: Meet the author Alexander McCall Smith

Monday, 3 March 2014
UK author Alexander McCall Smith is touring Australia in March, stopping in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Ballarat. His most recent novel is The Forever Girl (Polygon). What would you put on a...

 

 

 

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