The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Pig the Pug (Aaron... Read more |
Penguin Australia will stop supplying the cookbook The Whole Pantry in Australia after the publisher failed to receive ‘sufficient explanation’ from author Belle Gibson over the... Read more |
Pan Macmillan has announced it will not publish a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans, with the authors to self-publish a digital version in coming... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’... Read more |
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop will open a new store at Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne in mid-May. Co-owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing that the... Read more |
The 2015 Leading Edge Books Conference, to be held at the Rydges on Swanston in Melbourne from 15-16 May, will feature a keynote address by... Read more |
The theme of this year’s Booksellers NZ Conference is ‘Changing Hearts and Minds: Future Proofing Your Business’, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in... Read more |
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will headline the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival, featuring in just one session on 16 May at the Aotea Centre. Joining Murakami will... Read more |
The full line-up and program for the 2015 Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London has been announced. As previously reported... Read more |
UK-based retail chain WHSmith is increasing its presence at Sydney Airport with up to six ‘travel essentials’ retail stores in the T1 international terminal. The... Read more |
Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer (Lothian) is one of eight titles shortlisted for this year’s Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in children’s books. The... Read more |
TLC Books in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Manly is up for sale. Bookstore owner Tanya Caunce has listed the store for sale on Gumtree with... Read more |
Broome resident Madelaine Dickie has won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript Troppo. Dickie received a $12,000 cash prize... Read more |
Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing and Wilkins Farago have been nominated in the Oceania region for the third annual Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers... Read more |
Melbourne writer Oscar Schwartz has won the inaugural The Lifted Brow (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be... Read more |
‘With interest rates low, a weak Australian dollar and a waning interest in e-reading, conditions are perfect for bookstores to reclaim the ground lost since... Read more |
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold North American volume rights to The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead (all Ben Sanders). Lacuna Publishing has sold... Read more |
James Patterson’s 14th Deadly Sin (Century) has climbed to the number one spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with American Sniper (film... Read more |
British fantasy fiction author Sir Terry Pratchett has died, aged 66. Pratchett was the author of over 70 books, with total sales of 75 million internationally,... Read more |
Australian author Ian Bedford has died, aged 76. Bedford had a long career as an anthropologist and writer. His works include the novels The Shell... Read more |
In the US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBBYR) has signed a deal with the Lego Group to develop titles based on a number... Read more |
In the UK, Struck by Joss Stirling (Oxford University Press) has become the first YA novel to be awarded Romantic Novel of the Year by... Read more |
In the UK, Faber is launching a two-tiered membership program, which will offer discounts, access to members-only events and special collector’s editions of the publisher’s... Read more |
In the UK, the UK Literacy Association (UKLA) and Booktrust are launching an award for digital ebooks and apps, reports The Bookseller. The Digital Book... Read more |
In the UK, the longlist been announced for the 2015 Independent Foreign Prize, run by literary charity Booktrust. The prize honours the best work of fiction... Read more |
In the UK, Booksellers Association CEO Tim Godfray has warned that free elending in libraries could cause ‘serious damage’ to the bookselling industry, reports the... Read more |
Forty years on from Animal Liberation, Peter Singer is still challenging our complacency with his advocacy for new ideas and movements. ‘Effective altruism’—doing the most... Read more |
Janet Frame’s 1957 debut novel Owls Do Cry has topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and... Read more |
Melody Paloma has won the 2014 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, worth $6000, for her poem ‘Hyper-reactive’. The first runner-up was Chris Armstrong for... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced that Sue Roberts will retire from her role as CEO and state librarian. Roberts will step down... Read more |
The Queensland Library Foundation has teamed up with Creative Partnerships Australia to raise funding for the State Library of Queensland (SLQ). Until 29 May 2015,... Read more |
Library elending could cause ‘serious damage’ to booksellers, warns Booksellers Association CEO In the UK, Booksellers Association CEO Tim Godfray has warned that free elending... Read more |
Melbourne sisters L-J and Danielle Lacey relocated several times before settling their independent children’s book and toy shop Three Four Knock on the Door in ‘the hub of... Read more |
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The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced that Sue Roberts will retire from her role as CEO and state librarian. (See library news.)
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The Society of Editors (NSW) will run a one-day workshop on the topic ‘Ebooks 101 for editors: Foundation’, presented by Sarah JH Fletcher. The workshop... Read more |
Nominations for the ABIA Business Awards open Wednesday, 18 March 2015 and close on Friday, 10 April 2015. The categories for the 2015 ABIA Business... Read more |
Everyone at Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Maxine Beneba Clarke on Foreign Soil being shortlisted in the 2015 Stella Prize. Congratulations to Maxine!
To order copies of Foreign Soil (ISBN: 9780733632426) please contact Alliance Distribution Services customer service on toll-free fax 1800-664-477 or tel (02) 4390 1300.
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NewSouth Books will accept returns for titles from the Aurum and Frances Lincoln adult imprints until Friday, 1 May 2015.
Contact: TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au)
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