Dymocks is withdrawing from the Hong Kong market, beginning with the closure of its flagship store and Hong Kong office. A further five independently owned... Read more |
A new independent bookstore opened in the Perth suburb of Mt Hawthorn in November. Diabolik Books and Records owner Scott Jones told Books+Publishing that books... Read more |
Brisbane bookstore Black Cat Books has announced that it will close on 30 January. The Paddington store, which specialises in children’s books, has been the site... Read more |
Writers Victoria has announced the finalists for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The... Read more |
Melbourne teacher and blogger Philip Thiel has announced the formation of the $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing, aimed at supporting inventive online writing. The... Read more |
Former News Limited CEO Kim Williams has been appointed as a director of the Copyright Agency board, replacing former media executive Brian Johns. Copyright Agency chair... Read more |
The editors of WA literary magazine Westerly, Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, have stepped down from their positions. Bird has been editor since 1992, first... Read more |
‘Comments like “isn’t everyone buying ebooks” and “isn’t everyone buying books from the internet” are virtually non-existent’—Collins Booksellers Wagga owner Peter Halicki responds to the Books+Publishing post-Christmas... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Literary agent Alex Adsett has sold world rights to the two-book series ‘Who’s Afraid’ (Maria Lewis) to Piatkus in the UK. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has... Read more |
While The Long Haul (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is once again at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, healthy-eating cookbooks are also making their moves up the... Read more |
Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced its new columnists for 2015, with James Tierney to write about books and writing. Tierney is... Read more |
In the US, Simon & Schuster is offering paid online video courses from some of its popular authors, reports the New York Times. The courses... Read more |
In the UK, new Nielsen BookScan figures reveal that sales of print books have fallen by more than £150m (A$278.53m) since 2009, reports the Guardian. An... Read more |
In China, literary organisation the Bookworm is launching the publishing house China Bookworm Press and the inaugural China Bookworm Literary Award, reports Creative Asia. China... Read more |
American author James Patterson is donating £50,000 (A$92,300) to the inaugural World Book Day Award, which gives UK and Ireland school libraries the chance to... Read more |
The majority of independent booksellers in the UK have reported a boost in Christmas sales this year, according to separate surveys by the Booksellers Association... Read more |
In the UK, David Harsent has won the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for his collection Fire Songs (Faber) after being shortlisted for... Read more |
The Man Booker Prize has made changes to its rules on the availability of longlisted titles and eligibility of international titles, reports the Bookseller. Following... Read more |
The State Library of Western Australia has gathered 1700 stories about the state’s Indigenous people through its Aboriginal heritage online interactive archive project Storylines, reports... Read more |
NYC libraries to offer internet hotspots The New York Public Library is lending out 10,000 free high-speed internet hotspots valued at US$1000 (A$1223) to some... Read more |
‘Each time I visit schools I ask the teachers to please close their eyes while the children raise their hands when asked, “Hands up, who... Read more |
MidnightSun ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance its first picture book. It is an unusual and challenging book to launch its children’s list. It is... Read more |
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Agency: Getty Publications ISBN Prefixes: Various Old Distributor: InbooksNew distributor: Footprint BooksChangeover date: 01/01/2015
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Agency: Zed Books ISBN Prefixes: Various Old Distributor: InbooksNew distributor: Footprint BooksChangeover date: 01/01/2015
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Agency: St Martin’s PressISBN Prefixes: VariousOld Distributor: UBDNew distributor: Alliance Distribution Services (Sales & marketing through Pan Macmillan)Changeover date: 01/01/2015
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Agency: Five ContinentsISBN Prefixes: Various Old Distributor: Thames & HudsonNew distributor: Footprint BooksChangeover date: 01/01/2015
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The editors of WA literary magazine Westerly, Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, have stepped down from their positions. (See news.)
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Former News Limited CEO Kim Williams has been appointed as a director of the Copyright Agency board. (See news.)
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James Tierney has been appointed books and writing columnist for Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings. (See news.)
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Submissions for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing open on 2 March 2015 and will close on 2 April 2015. The prize is... Read more |
Editors Victoria is running three Grammar for Editors courses with Glenys Osborne at the CAE, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Introductory: 31 January (bookings close 18... Read more |
The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will run a one-day workshop on InDesign, presented by Antony Brown, on Friday 20 February. The new InDesign course... Read more |
Macmillan Science and Education (formerly Palgrave Macmillan) advises that effective 1st January 2015, we will no longer represent St Martin’s Press. From that date sales... Read more |
We are pleased to announce that effective January 1st, 2015 the following publishers are now available through Footprint Books: Getty Publications; Five Continents Editions and Zed... Read more |
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