SLV Creative Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2013-14 Creative Fellowships. Among the recipients selected for funding are several with book-related projects. Joanne Oliver will work...
Tan Twan Eng wins Walter Scott Prize
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Canongate). His win marks the first...
ABA announces National Bookshop Day promotions
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a number of promotions to support National Bookshop Day on 10 August. The ABA will be running a national competition calling for people...
Pottermore website redesigned
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Pottermore, the website designed for J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, will unveil a new design to broaden its user base and publishing business, reports the Bookseller. The company has also launched an offshoot...
Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 winners announced
Monday, 17 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize have been announced. The winner of the international prize was Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Fady Joudah...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 17 June 2013
Entwined with You (Sylvia Day, Penguin), the third novel in the erotic fiction series ‘Crossfire’, is at the top of the bestsellers and the highest new entries charts this week. The author is...
A&U named Publisher of the Year at Leading Edge Conference; Avenue Bookstore, BooksPlus win bookselling awards
Monday, 17 June 2013
Allen & Unwin was named Publisher of the Year at the 2013 Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide on 15 June, the fourth year running that the publisher has received...
MWF, BWF announce festival events
Monday, 17 June 2013
The Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals have announced a number of events ahead of their official program launches. The Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 22 August to 1 September,...
‘The Light between Oceans’ wins booksellers choice award; Shaw, Fay win bookseller awards
Monday, 17 June 2013
The Light between Oceans by M L Stedman (Vintage) has won this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award. The award, which recognises Australian new-release titles that...
PM’s Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Monday, 17 June 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) The Chemistry of Tears...
Booksellers NZ Industry Awards finalists announced
Friday, 14 June 2013
The finalists for this year’s Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island) Paper Plus...
Profit up, sales down for Book Depository following Amazon acquisition
Friday, 14 June 2013
The Book Depository’s pre-tax profit has surged since it was acquired by Amazon in 2011, reports the Bookseller. In its first financial statement released since the acquisition, the Book Depository...
Penguin announces publishing partnership with AFL
Friday, 14 June 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that it will publish a series of books with the Australian Football League (AFL) for ‘supporters of all ages’. The children’s titles, which will be branded...
Rebellion launches children’s imprint
Friday, 14 June 2013
UK publisher Rebellion has launched the children’s imprint Ravenstone at Book Expo America (BEA), along with the imprint’s first book, reports Publishers Weekly. Rebellion is best known for publishing books featuring the...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Friday, 14 June 2013
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the...
McCaskill resigns from APA
Friday, 14 June 2013
Maree McCaskill has resigned as CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) after more than seven years in the position. Her resignation is effective from 14 June 2013. ‘Under Maree’s...
Symonds to take on expanded role for Nielsen Book; Meechan to retire
Thursday, 13 June 2013
General manager of Nielsen Book Australia Shaun Symonds will take on an expanded role in September, adding responsibility for Nielsen Book New Zealand to his current position. Symonds will start in...
New military history book award to be presented in 2014
Thursday, 13 June 2013
In the US, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation has created the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, with a US$50,000 (A$52,800) prize to be awarded for the first time in February 2014. A...
Audible ends US$1 author payments program
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Amazon-owned audiobooks provider Audible is ending its Author Services program, which pays authors a US$1 ‘honoraria’ for every audiobook sold through Audible.com, Audible.co.uk and iTunes, reports paidContent. Authors have been sent...
Pinerolo 2013 illustrators-in-residence announced
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Pinerolo, the Children’s Book Cottage in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, has announced its 2013 illustrators-in-residence. The illustrators, who will each undertake a one-week residency at Pinerolo, are: Nette...
HGE signs two new Ampersand novels
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has signed two new novels in the second round of its Ampersand Project for unpublished YA authors. HGE will publish The Flywheel, a contemporary novel by...
On tour: Meet the author Julia Quinn
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Romance author Julia Quinn is visiting Australia in August for the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Fremantle. Quinn’s newest book is the ninth in the ‘Bridgertons’ series, The Bridgertons:...
APA, Thorpe-Bowker launch TitlePage Plus; Indies launch white-label Copia stores
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Thorpe-Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing, have launched TitlePage Plus. The APA and Thorpe-Bowker said in a joint press release this week that TitlePage Plus...
University Book Shop Otago to restructure; staff to reapply for jobs
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The University Book Shop Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is undergoing a restructure, with staff required to reapply for their jobs. General manager Phillippa Duffy said in a statement that...
Johnson, Muir, Colpoys join Scribe
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications is expanding its team with a number of new staff appointments. Kirsty-Michelle Johnson has been appointed to the position of sales and distribution manager. Johnson previously...
Hoekstra appointed head of ABC Retail; ABC Shop in Melbourne CBD to close this month
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Regina Hoekstra has been appointed as the new head of ABC Retail and has been given the task of moving the ABC Shops, ABC Centres and the ABC’s online business...
Tasmanian devils: Lenny Bartulin on ‘Infamy’
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (A&U, October) tells the story of William Burr, an adventurer on the trail of an escaped convict turned bushranger. Reviewer Tim Coronel called the novel a ‘rollicking,...
In brief
Thursday, 13 June 2013
ALIA releases draft principles on ebook lending The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released a set of draft principles on ebook lending in Australian libraries, which will guide...
ABA Booksellers of the Year finalists announced
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The finalists for the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists for the Text Publishing Bookseller of the Year are: Karen Ferris, Berkelouw...
International Library News
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Obama unveils ConnectED program for high-speed internet in schools US President Barack Obama has launched the ConnectED program, which aims to connect 99% of America’s students to high-speed broadband and wireless internet within five...
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