Winter Institute 2019: Staff engagement, tech tools and ‘surviving the political divide’
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Jay Lansdown, owner of Sydney bookshop The Constant Reader and vice-president of the Australian Booksellers Association, attended this year’s Winter Institute, an annual conference held by the American Booksellers Association, which...
Learning to be brave: Anna Walker on ‘Lottie and Walter’
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Anna Walker’s Lottie and Walter (Picture Puffin, March) tells the story of a little girl who is scared to get in the water, but who finds courage in a singing walrus...
Baz & Benz (Heidi McKinnon, A&U)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
The titular Baz and Benz are a pair of owls: a small blue one and a larger green one. At the start of the book, they agree wholeheartedly that they...
Manus detainee Boochani accepts the Victorian Prize for Literature
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
'This proves that words still have the power to challenge inhumane systems and structures. I have always said that I believe in words and literature. I believe that literature has...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 longlists announced
Thursday, 31 January 2019
The longlists for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Man Who Would Not See (Rajorshi Chakraborti, Penguin) The...
Bestsellers: ‘Places We Swim’ a fast mover amid summer heatwaves
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
After a brief stint at the top of the bestseller's chart last week, The Fast 800 (Michael Mosley, S&S) has dropped to second spot on this week's chart, with The Barefoot Investor...
RiP Barrie Dunstan
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Business and investment journalist Barrie Dunstan has died, aged 80. Starting his journalism career at the Argus in 1955, Dunstan then moved to the Age in 1958 and was promoted to finance...
Print book sales in Canada remain flat in 2018
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Print book sales in Canada have remained flat in 2018, with backlist books still dominating the market (60%) and nonfiction sales up slightly more than fiction, the same as in...
Lake Macquarie council proposes five-year plan to refurbish all library branches
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Lake Macquarie City Council, in the Hunter Region of NSW, has announced plans to overhaul the city's entire library service, reports the Newcastle Herald. According to Lake Macquarie City Council cultural services...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.049m funding grants
Monday, 14 January 2019
Thirty-seven arts organisations have received a total of $1.049 million in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in...
Podcast spotlight: what’s next?
Friday, 21 December 2018
Over the last 12 months, Nathania Gilson has been interviewing Australian book podcasters—from passion projects to national radio broadcasters, from hybrid experiments to extensions of retail brands, festivals or traditional...
Pre-Christmas survey 2018: Sales stable for third year in a row
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Christmas sales are tracking at similar levels to last year for the majority of booksellers (60%), with slightly more stores (21%) reporting an increase in sales than those (19%) reporting a...
Christmas predictions: Louise Pfanner from Gleebooks in Sydney
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this final instalment...
Audiobooks, data-driven publishing discussed at FutureBook 2018
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The ‘audio gold rush’, data-driven publishing and the importance of surprise in an increasingly algorhythmic world were some of the topics covered at this year’s wide-ranging FutureBook Live conference, which...
Christmas predictions: Sean Guy from The Bookshop Darwin
Friday, 7 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment,...
Christmas predictions: the Hobart Bookshop team
Friday, 7 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the this week’s...
Podcast spotlight: Sisteria
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Launched in 2016, Sisteria is a Melbourne-based podcast about 'women's experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture'. Hosted by Stephanie Van Schilt and Veronica Sullivan, and produced by Jessica Lukjanow, the...
Christmas predictions: Katy Downey from the Leaf Bookshop in Ashburton
Friday, 30 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and 'surprise sellers'. In...
Podcast spotlight: The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Oral History Podcast
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Launched in late 2018, the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Oral History podcast delves into the organisation's archives, sharing authors' stories of 'fighting institutions, government—and sometimes, each other—to advocate...
Podcast spotlight: The ‘Good Reading’ podcast
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
The Good Reading podcast, launched in July 2018, publishes episodes weekly with the aim of helping readers ‘discover [their] next favourite read’. Hosted by Emma Harvey, Angus Dalton and Greg Dobb, the...
For love or money: employment in the Australian publishing industry in 2018
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Books+Publishing surveyed over 300 readers to create a detailed picture of employment in the book industry in 2018. Small Press Network associate producer Jessica Harvie and Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Andrew Wrathall checked the stats. These results...
Open Your Eyes: Jax Jacki Brown on access and inclusion in publishing
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Writers Victoria and Arts Access Victoria are offering disability awareness training tailored specifically to the publishing industry at the upcoming Independent Publishing Conference in Melbourne. The workshop will cover best-practice language, the...
Australian, NZ authors on 2019 Dublin Literary Award longlist
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Fourteen books by Australian authors and six by New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted books by Australian authors are: A Long Way...
Christmas predictions: Megan O’Brien from Brunswick Bound in Melbourne
Friday, 16 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the this...
‘Chernobyl’ wins 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction
Friday, 16 November 2018
Ukrainian-American author and historian Serhii Plokhy has won the £30,000 (A$53,880) 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (Allen Lane). Chosen from a shortlist of six,...
Accessible print for all: Sarah Runcie on the Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
In October Sarah Runcie from the Australian Publishers Association (APA) travelled to Tokyo to address the Advanced Publishing Lab at Keio University about the APA's Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative (AIPI). She...
Podcast spotlight: So You Want to Be a Writer
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Established in 2014, So You Want to Be a Writer is made by the Australian Writers’ Centre (AWC) and co-hosted by author Allison Tait and AWC CEO Valerie Khoo. Each episode covers...
When the wind changes: Justin D’Ath on ‘47 Degrees’
Monday, 12 November 2018
Justin D'Ath's 47 Degrees (Puffin, January) follows 12-year-old Zeelie whose life is forever changed when temperatures soar one summer's day in 2009. Described as 'an extraordinarily fast-paced and visceral story that...
Christmas predictions: Annie Waters from Mostly Books in Adelaide
Friday, 9 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the second...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 winners announced
Friday, 9 November 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winners are: Picture fiction Florette (Anna Walker, Viking) Fiction Wombat Warriors (Samantha Wheeler, UQP) Nonfiction...
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