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Wootten wins NZ mid-career writers grant 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors has announced that Dunedin poet and novelist Sue Wootten is the winner of its new award for a mid-career writer. Also shortlisted were Anna...

PMP to cut jobs 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
PMP, parent company of Griffin Press, has announced it is making ‘headcount reductions’ as part of the second phase of its ‘transformation plan’. However, Ben Jolly, general manager of Griffin...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Sales Fiction—Scholastic has finalised a US deal for The Very Hungry Bear (Nick Bland); and has licensed Korean language rights to My Dad’s The Coolest (Rosie Smith & Bruce Whatley) and...

World Book Night US list chosen 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The organisers of World Book Night have announced the titles chosen for the event’s US list. Authors with works selected include Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Paulo Coelho, Tina Fey, John...

Duffy to join University Book Shop Otago 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The Board of the University Book Shop Otago, in New Zealand, has announced the appointment of Phillippa Duffy to the role of general manager. Duffy has previously worked as sales...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
In The Golden Land (Macmillan), Di Morrissey explores the troubled history of Burma through a contemporary story about a young Gold Coast mother whose interest in the country is ignited...

‘Foal’s Bread’ wins Colin Roderick Award

Monday, 12 November 2012
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) has won this year’s Colin Roderick Award. Deputy executive director of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University Don Gallagher told...

2012 Human Rights Literature Award shortlist announced

Monday, 12 November 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Am I Black Enough For You? (Anita Heiss, Bantam) The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die...

Perth Writers Festival line-up announced 

Monday, 12 November 2012
The Perth Writers Festival (PWF) has announced the writers appearing at the festival, running from 21-24 February at the Crawley campus of the University of Western Australia. Margaret Atwood will...

Changes at Auckland Writers & Readers Festival 

Monday, 12 November 2012
Anne O’Brien has been appointed as festival director of Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (AWRF) beginning 1 January.  O’Brien has worked as artistic director at AWRF since December 2011 and...

‘The Cook’ wins Most Underrated Book Award

Friday, 9 November 2012
Wayne Macauley has won the inaugural Most Underrated Book Award for his novel The Cook (Text). The award, sponsored by Kobo, was announced at the Wheeler Centre on 8 November as part...

Retailers to sell to consumers at BEA 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Book Expo America (BEA) events director Steve Rosato has announced that the book fair will again host consumers for the final day of the event in 2013, however Publishers Weekly...

Sony launches iPhone reading app 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Sony has launched an iOS reading app. The software company has elected not to include access to its ebookstore in the app, thereby avoiding giving Apple a percentage of purchases....

Pan Mac to offer creative writing sessions in the UK 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
In the UK, Pan Macmillan has announced it will begin offering creative writing tutoring, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will begin running events called Notebook Sessions, later this month. ‘We’re...

Bookworld offers to beat Amazon by 10% 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Online bookseller Bookworld has launched a ‘Bookworld Price Guarantee’ for its loyalty club members, offering to beat Amazon’s prices by 10%. Under the promotion, which was launched on 1 November,...

ACCC ‘aware’ of Penguin, Random House proposed merger 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘aware’ of the proposed merger between Penguin and Random House. An ACCC spokesperson said that ‘if the...

Macmillan dictionaries online-only from 2013 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Macmillan Dictionaries will only be available online from the new year, reports the Bookseller, which said Macmillan Education was currently printing the final ever physical copies of the reference works....

‘419’ wins Scotiabank Giller Prize 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The novel 419 by Will Ferguson (Penguin) has won the C$50,000 (A$48,000) Scotiabank Giller Prize. Ferguson’s novel was chosen by judges Roddy Doyle, Gary Shteyngart and Anna Porter from a...

Quote of the week 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
‘Global English-language rights will become more and more prevalent, as will simultaneous worldwide publishing. Where this leaves author tours, writers festivals and associated marketing, which until now has been staggered...

Bertelsmann to acquire 100% of Random House Mondadori 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Random House parent company Bertelsmann has announced it has agreed to purchase all shares in Random House Mondadori, its trade book publisher in Spain and Latin America. Random House Mondadori was...

Plans to launch Canadian women’s literary award 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
In Canada, Thomas Allen editorial director Janice Zawerbny has begun taking steps to develop a literary award that will recognise fiction written by Canadian women. For now, the prize is...

Firefox allows new ‘send to Kindle’ button 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Internet browser Mozilla Firefox has added a feature that allows content publishers to add a button enabling readers to send web content to their Kindle. ‘Online publishers can add the...

In brief 

Thursday, 8 November 2012
NSW Library Council calls for more public library funding The Library Council of New South Wales has used the Local Government Association of NSW conference in Dubbo this month to...

 

 

 

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