Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2014 winners announced
Monday, 5 May 2014
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...
HarperCollins to acquire Harlequin
Monday, 5 May 2014
HarperCollins has agreed to acquire Harlequin for C$455 million (A$446 million), reports Publishers Weekly.The purchase still requires the approval of the US and Canadian governments. In Australia, the Australian Competition...
Scribd partners with Wiley
Monday, 5 May 2014
In the US, ebook subscription service Scribd has partnered with Wiley to add 1000 titles to the service, including the For Dummies list, reports Digital Book World. The titles are...
Stoner shortlisted for British Sport Book Awards
Monday, 5 May 2014
Casey Stoner: Pushing the Limits (Casey Stoner & Matthew Roberts, Hachette Australia) has been shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards. The title has been shortlisted in the ‘outstanding general...
ASA Children’s Picture Book Illustrators 2014 grants announced
Monday, 5 May 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the successful applicants for its Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative. Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, the grants support ‘the...
Bolinda expands international audiobook range
Friday, 2 May 2014
Bolinda is set to triple its audiobook output following an acquisitions push in the UK.Bolinda announced in April that it has acquired audiobook rights for a number of high-profile international...
Leckie wins 2014 Arthur C Clarke Award
Friday, 2 May 2014
US author Ann Leckie has won the 2014 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction writing for her debut novel Ancillary Justice (Orbit). Leckie’s book was chosen from a shortlist of...
Best Translated Book Award 2014 winners announced
Friday, 2 May 2014
In the US, the 2014 Best Translated Book Award for fiction has been presented to Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions),...
Germany lowers audiobooks VAT to 7%, pushes for lower ebook VAT
Friday, 2 May 2014
The German government has cut its value added tax (VAT) on audiobooks from 19% to 7%, and is campaigning to reduce the VAT on ebooks to the same level, reports the...
Bookish people on ‘Time’ list of 100 most influential
Thursday, 1 May 2014
In the US, seven bookish people are on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. This year’s list includes US author Donna Tartt, who won the 2014 Pulitzer...
Penguin Random House NZ announces leadership restructure, Thompson appointed MD, Ferns to depart
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Penguin Random House has announced the appointment of Margaret Thompson to the newly created position of managing director of Penguin Random House New Zealand. The appointment of Thompson, who has...
Oz, NZ writers shortlisted for 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Thursday, 1 May 2014
A number of Australian and New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Works by Australian and New Zealand writers shortlisted for the prize are: ‘The...
Frankfurt Book Fair announces changes to hall layout
Thursday, 1 May 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced a number of changes to its hall layout, which are designed to put English-language publishers ‘at the heart of the action’, reports the Bookseller....
EWF 2014 program announced
Thursday, 1 May 2014
The program for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), to be held in Melbourne from 27 May to 6 June, has been announced.The festival begins with an ‘opening night extravaganza’...
REAL Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Thursday, 1 May 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...
Best Australian Blogs 2014 finalists announced
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
The finalists in the Australian Writers’ Centre Best Australian Blogs Competition have been announced. The finalists in the ‘words and writing’ category are: Fictioner’s Net (Nick Hudson, www.fictioners.net) Denise Mooney...
Wellcome Book Prize 2014 winner announced
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
In the UK, Andrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree (Chatto & Windus) has won this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, worth £30,000 (A$54,430), for the best new work of fiction or...
Hodder Children’s Books to launch digital-only sci-fi imprint
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
In the UK, Hodder Children’s Books is launching a digital-only science-fiction classics imprint, reports the Bookseller. HodderSilver will launch on 1 May with a list of five out-of-print sci-fi books:...
Hachette Australia to publish ‘MKR’ contestants’ cookbook
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired the rights for Taking You Home: Simple Greek Food by My Kitchen Rules contestants Helena and Vikki Moursellas.The Moursellas participated in the latest season of the popular television series before...
Getting the word out: Angela Meyer on the debut author experience
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
My first work of fiction, a petite collection of tiny (but hopefully powerful) stories, commonly referred to as ‘flash fictions’, is out in May with Inkerman & Blunt. Inkerman &...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
‘The Stella Prize is like the Brownlow Medal of the literary world: all muscle and spine, with a touch of glamour’—2014 Stella Prize winner Clare Wright
International library news
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
The British Library opens £33 million newspaper reading roomThe British Library in London, England, has opened a newspaper reading room worth £33 million (A$59.9 million), reports the Guardian. The British...
Yarra Plenty library to expand Doggy Tales reading program
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Yarra Plenty Regional Library (YPRL) in Victoria is seeking dogs for its Doggy Tales program, which helps children struggling with literacy by giving them the opportunity to read to dogs....
Escape launches competition to name romance sub-genre
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Harlequin Australia’s digital-first imprint Escape Publishing has launched a competition to name one of its romance sub-genres. ‘In the next few months, the Escape Publishing website is being updated, and...
‘The BFG’ to be adapted to film by Spielberg
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Roald Dahl’s children’s book The BFG (various imprints) will be adapted into a live-action film directed by Steven Spielberg, reports Variety. Spielberg plans to begin production in early 2015 and the film...
Pages & Pages, Boomerang now selling ebooks through Kobo; ABA-Kobo partnership ‘fully functional’
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages and online bookseller Boomerang Books are now selling ebooks through the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) partnership with Kobo.Jon Page, owner of Pages & Pages...
‘The Casual Vacancy’ to be adapted for HBO television
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
J K Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy (Orbit) will be adapted into a miniseries by US television network HBO, reports the Telegraph. The book will be made into a three-hour miniseries,...
ABIA 2014 book awards shortlists announced, website launched
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the book award categories in this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards. The shortlisted titles are: International book of the year...
Kent and Cleave among nominees for Barry Awards
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent and New Zealand author Paul Cleave are among the writers nominated for this year’s Barry Awards for crime writing.Awarded annually by the editors of US crime...
250,000 books handed out for World Book Night UK
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
In the UK, 10,500 individuals and groups handed out 250,000 copies of 20 titles during World Book Night, reports the Bookseller. In addition, around 2100 people signed up to give...
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