Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Theodore Boone: The Activist by John Grisham (Hachette) is the fourth instalment in the children’s book series featuring 13-year-old legal whiz kid Theodore Boone. It’s on top of this week’s highest new entries chart....
Industry figures, authors recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Penguin Australia publisher Bob Sessions, literary agent Robin Dalton, bookseller Jacqueline Cookes and authors Jill Conway and Hazel Edwards were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sessions was...
Random House launches consumer insight website
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
In the UK, Random House has launched a consumer insight website to collect information from readers on book discovery and consumption, reports the Bookseller. Readers will be invited to sign...
Canadian publisher McArthur & Company to close
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Kim McArthur, owner of the independent Canadian publisher McArthur & Company, has announced that she is closing the business. According to Publishers Weekly, the company has been experiencing financial difficulties...
Lillebuen wins Arthur Ellis Award
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Australian author and journalist Steve Lillebuen has been named a winner in the 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Lillebuen, who divides his time between Melbourne and...
Hartcher wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize
Friday, 7 June 2013
Journalist Peter Hartcher has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for his book The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck (Black Inc.). Federal MP Malcolm Turnbull presented the $30,000 award...
Bent awarded 2013 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency
Friday, 7 June 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that Hannah Bent has won the 2013 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, entitling the author to one week’s stay at Varuna, the...
‘City of Bohane’ wins IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Friday, 7 June 2013
City of Bohane by Irish author Kevin Barry (Vintage) has won this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (approximately A$163,000). Barry’s novel, a futuristic tale set in Ireland, was selected from...
Salt to cease publishing single-author poetry collections
Friday, 7 June 2013
In the UK, Salt Publishing has announced that it will no longer publish single-author poetry collections and will instead focus on poetry anthologies, as well as its fiction and nonfiction...
Law Reform Commission proposes broad ‘fair use’ copyright provision, voluntary licensing model
Friday, 7 June 2013
The introduction of a broad ‘fair use’ copyright provision and the replacement of statutory licenses with a voluntary licensing model are among the key changes to Australia’s copyright regime proposed...
Ernest Scott Prize 2013 shortlist announced
Friday, 7 June 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Webs of Empire: Locating...
Meechan to retire from Nielsen Book
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Ka Meechan has announced that she will retire from her position as Asia Pacific managing director for Nielsen Book later this year. According to the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ), Meechan will...
French Government, publishers announce new funds for booksellers
Thursday, 6 June 2013
French booksellers will have access to an additional €9 million (A$12.4 million) in funds this year, thanks to new funding pledged by the French Government and French publishers, reports the Bookseller....
Wilderness Society children’s book award winners announced
Thursday, 6 June 2013
The winners of the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature were announced at Readings Carlton on World Environment Day on 5 June. The winners in each category are: Primary: Tanglewood (Margaret...
Homes wins 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Thursday, 6 June 2013
American author A M Homes has won the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel May We Be Forgiven (Granta). Homes, the author of six novels, two collections of...
Ebooks make up half of Hosseini’s first-week sales in the UK
Thursday, 6 June 2013
In the UK, 50% of first-week sales for Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (Bloomsbury) were for ebooks, with 10,000 copies sold in each format, reports the Bookseller. Bloomsbury UK...
ASA National Writers’ Congress details announced
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has released details about its inaugural National Writers’ Congress, Authorship 20/20, which will celebrate the association’s 50th anniversary in Sydney from 17-19 October. Guest speakers for the congress include...
Scribe to publish first children’s book in November
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will publish its first children’s picture book in November. Amazing Babes by Sydney writer Eliza Sarlos and Tokyo-based illustrator Grace Lee is described as ‘an inspirational picture...
Halford named Penguin Sales Rep of the Year
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Jenny Halford was named Penguin Sales Representative of the Year at this year’s Penguin sales conference, which was held in Lorne, Victoria, at the end of May. Halford has worked...
New literary festival for Tasmania
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
A new Tasmanian literary festival, the Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words, will be held for the first time in March 2014. The annual festival, which will be based in the northern Tasmanian...
YA book-discovery startup wins Publishing Hackathon
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
A young adult book-discovery platform called Evoke has won the inaugural Publishing Hackathon, a software development contest held in New York in May, reports DigitalBookWorld. The Evoke team, which includes Lisa Maione, Jason Pearson...
Malorie Blackman named UK Children’s Laureate
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
In the UK, children’s author Malorie Blackman has been announced as the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate, reports the Bookseller. Blackman was presented with the Children’s Laureate medal and a cheque...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards shortlists announced
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian...
Gatekeepers, gender and ‘new adult’ debated at 2013 Reading Matters conference
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Keith Gray, Raina Telgemeir and Libba Bray were among the popular international guests at this year’s Reading Matters conference, which ran from 30 May to 1 June. The biennial event, based...
Central West Libraries commended in IFLA marketing awards
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Central West Libraries in NSW has been highly commended in the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) 2013 International Marketing Awards. The only Australian library to be recognised in the...
In brief
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
OCLC VP to give keynote address at LIANZA Conference Lorcan Dempsey, vice president and chief strategist at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), will give a keynote address at this...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
‘If you categorise books as for boys or for girls, the message is that boys don’t need to be concerned about the female experience. And vice versa’—US author Libba Bray...
Attendance, box office up at EWF 2013
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
The 2013 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) attracted a larger audience and higher box office sales than last year’s festival, according to festival director Sam Twyford-Moore. The festival, which was the first...
NewSouth book wins at Heritage Awards
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Designer Suburbs: Architects and Affordable Homes in Australia by Judith O’Callaghan and Charles Pickett (NewSouth) has won the Education, Interpretation and Community Engagement category of this year’s New South Wales National Trust Heritage...
Young nominated for Daphne du Maurier Awards
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Helene Young’s Burning Lies (Penguin) has been nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Awards in the Mainstream Mystery and Suspense category of the published division. The winners will be announced on 18 July...
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