On tour: Meet the author Elizabeth Wein
Monday, 9 September 2013
US historical YA fiction author Elizabeth Wein is visiting Australia in September. Wein is the author of six historical YA novels including Code Name Verity (Egmont Books) and its follow-up book...
Book industry entries shortlisted in Create Design Awards
Friday, 6 September 2013
A number of book industry entries have been shortlisted in the Create Design Awards 2013, presented by Desktop magazine. The illustration in this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival website and posters, designed by Marc...
Sourcebooks to publish Wattpad titles
Friday, 6 September 2013
In the US, independent publisher Sourcebooks has partnered with online writing platform Wattpad to publish some of its popular YA titles, reports Publishers Weekly. The partnership will see Sourcebooks edit,...
Bloomsbury acquires natural history list from New Holland
Friday, 6 September 2013
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired over 200 natural history titles from New Holland Publishers, which it plans to integrate into its own natural history list. The New Holland titles acquired by...
Momentum launches romance imprint Moonlight
Friday, 6 September 2013
Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum has launched a new romance imprint and online community called Momentum Moonlight. Momentum Moonlight, which has a dedicated website, will include all of Momentum’s current...
Doctorow, Angelou to receive National Book Foundation medals
Friday, 6 September 2013
In the US, the National Book Foundation will present the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to E L Doctorow and the 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary...
CLNZ Writers’ Awards 2013 winners announced
Friday, 6 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Awards for nonfiction have been announced. Geoff Chapple will receive one of the $35,000 prizes for his nonfiction book project ‘Terrain:...
NZ educational publisher Learning Media to close
Thursday, 5 September 2013
New Zealand educational publisher Learning Media will close within coming months. The board of Learning Media said in a statement on 4 September that the government-owned company will be ‘wound...
Queensland Literary Awards 2013 winners announced
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced on 4 September during the Brisbane Writers Festival. The winners in each of the book-related categories are: Fiction book...
William Morrow to revive Agatha Christie’s Poirot series
Thursday, 5 September 2013
HarperCollins imprint William Morrow will revive Agatha Christie’s crime series featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot with a new novel by UK crime writer Sophie Hannah, said HarperCollins in a statement. Acorn Productions, owner...
New Kindle Paperwhite to integrate with Goodreads
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The next upgrade of Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite ereader will allow users to access book-recommendation platform Goodreads on the device, reports Publishers Weekly. The sixth generation Kindle Paperwhite, which will ship...
The Body in the Garden festival 2013 guests announced
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The guest line-up for the first Body in the Garden festival in Adelaide, South Australia, has been announced. The festival, which is for writers of crime and garden books, will...
On the map: Maureen Brooks on ‘Mapping Our World’
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Maureen Brooks is the manager of publications, sales and promotions at the National Library of Australia (NLA). She spoke to reviewer Chris Harrington about NLA’s newest exhibition book, Mapping Our...
On tour: Meet the author Jackie Collins
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Superstar author Jackie Collins is visiting Australia in October. Her new book Confessions of a Wild Child (Simon & Schuster) is the eighth book about Lucky Santangelo, and takes the heroine...
Australian Family Therapists’ Awards 2013 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. The Children’s/Youth Literature Award, worth $1000, was presented to I’ll Tell You Mine by Pip...
Indigenous Literacy Day today
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its seventh Indigenous Literacy Day today and is aiming to raise up to $200,000 for Indigenous literacy. A number of booksellers and publishers...
Copyright Agency to launch etextbook subscription service LearningField
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Copyright Agency will launch an etextbook subscription service for secondary schools called LearningField at the beginning of 2014. The digital platform, which allows teachers and educators to aggregate learning materials...
Bloomsbury acquires Hart Publishing
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
In the UK, Bloomsbury has acquired legal publisher Hart Publishing, reports the Bookseller. The acquisition of Hart Publishing, for which Bloomsbury paid £6.5 million (A$11.17 million) outright, is expected to...
Amazon to bundle ebooks with print book purchases
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Amazon will launch its Kindle MatchBook program, which bundles discounted ebooks with print books, in October, reports Publishers Weekly. The company will offer ebook editions of the print books that customers buy or...
Five Mile Press wins Mattel Licensee of the Year
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Five Mile Press has won the 2013 Licensee of the Year Award at this year’s Mattel licensing summit in Melbourne. The publisher was selected from more than 150 licensees...
Mary Ryan’s Bulimba closes
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Mary Ryan’s bookstore in the Brisbane suburb of Bulimba has closed after eight years in business. The store, which was located on Oxford St in Bulimba’s retail precinct, closed...
MWF 2013: box-office takings up, Griffith tops bestsellers list
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has recorded another boost in box-office takings. Although ‘detailed figures’ are still being collated, the festival reports that it has ‘surpassed last year’s record-breaking...
RiP Seamus Heaney
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has died, aged 74. Heaney is the author of numerous poetry and prose collections, including Death of a Naturalist, Field Work, The Spirit...
In brief
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Political parties repond to ALIA’s ‘Library and Information Agenda’ Australia’s political parties have responded to the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)’s ‘Library and Information Agenda’. The Coalition provided a...
BICC develops elending principles, recommends including ebooks in lending rights schemes
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Book Industry Collaborative Council (BICC) has developed a set of principles for the supply of ebooks to Australian libraries as part of its final report, which was released to...
LIANZA 2013 awards announced
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced the winners of its 2013 awards. The winners in each category are: YBP Award for Collection Services Kathryn...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
‘Schools have been hoping for a “one stop shop” across multiple resource providers that works on multiple devices’—Cambridge University Press executive director Mark O’Neil on the benefits of LearningField, a...
Celebrities support UK ‘Books Are My Bag’ campaign
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
In the UK, a number of celebrities are supporting the upcoming ‘Books Are My Bag’ campaign, reports the Bookseller. The trade-wide advertising campaign to promote UK books and bookshops will...
Authors in the running for ‘Cosmo’ Fun Fearless Female poll
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
A number of authors are in the running for Cosmopolitan magazine’s annual Fun Fearless Female poll. Nominated in the Author category are: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites, Picador) Romy Ash (Floundering,...
Book Industry Collaborative Council final report released
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
The final report of the Book Industry Collaborative Council (BICC) has been released and is available online. The report, which is available from Innovation Minister Kim Carr’s website here, makes a...
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