Sofie Laguna has won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Eye of the Sheep (A&U). Laguna’s novel was chosen from a... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 21 June. The winners in each category are: Publisher... Read more |
The federal senate will hold an inquiry into the impact of the funding cuts to the Australia Council in the 2015/16 federal budget. A motion... Read more |
The federal senate has passed legislation that allows Australian publishers to apply to have sites hosting pirated content, including ebooks, films and TV series, blocked... Read more |
Affirm Press has announced that publisher Aviva Tuffield has decided to leave the company. Affirm publisher and CEO Martin Hughes said in a statement: ‘We... Read more |
Book reviews on Fairfax’s the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald websites now include links to buy books directly from online bookseller Booktopia. ‘While bricks-and-mortar bookshops are... Read more |
Dymocks’ flagship store in Perth will reopen in July. The Hay Street store, which closed on 14 June as its lease had come to an... Read more |
A new bookstore has opened in the regional Victorian town of Trentham. Writer and teacher Brenda Glover opened Dr B’s Bookstore at the beginning of June.... Read more |
Jannali Jones and Alison Whittaker are the winners of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes publication by Magabala Books.... Read more |
A six-part miniseries based on the novels Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis (HarperCollins) will screen next year on... Read more |
New Zealand author Martin Edmond is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Edmond, who won the 2013 NZ... Read more |
Several bookstores have been shortlisted for the 2015 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAS). Booktopia is a finalist in the Best Pure-Play Online Retailer and Best Online... Read more |
‘I’ve heard before that writers or artists, without being really conscious of it, we are really reflecting back to society the issues of the day’—Sofie... Read more |
Sales Fiction—PRH Australia (Penguin) has sold Czech rights to The Country Practice (Meredith Appleyard). PRH Australia (Random House) has sold UK rights to The Infinite... Read more |
A largely unchanged top 10 bestsellers chart this week is topped by The Mindfulness Colouring Book (Emma Farrarons, Boxtree), with Dork Diaries: Drama Queen (Rachel Renee... Read more |
In the US and Canada, Harlequin has launched a new rewards program for its readers, reports the Bookseller. Readers who sign up to the Harlequin... Read more |
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) is a launch partner for a new direct purchasing initiative on Twitter, reports GoodEreader. The initiative allows readers... Read more |
In Germany, a recent legal ruling has restricted the sale of ebooks with exclusively adult content to between 10pm and 6am local time, reports the... Read more |
In the UK, Tanya Landman has won the Carnegie Medal for Buffalo Soldier (Walker Books) and debut author and illustrator Will Grill has won the... Read more |
UK publisher Cornerstone has described first-day sales of E L James’ Grey as ‘record-breaking’ for an adult paperback in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The publisher... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has signed new print and ebook sales agreements with in the US and the UK, reports the Bookseller. PRH was the... Read more |
Ebook subscription service Oyster has introduced a new feature designed to reduce ereading eyestrain by adjusting a device’s screen to the light around it, reports... Read more |
France has been named as the guest of honour at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), reports the Bookseller. This is the second time the... Read more |
British author Jim Crace has won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Harvest (Picador). The €100,000 (A$205,140) award is presented annually... Read more |
An Astronaut’s Life is the debut short-story collection from ABC Radio producer and editor Sonja Dechian. Her book circles some big themes, namely our changing... Read more |
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2015 festival, to be held on 15 and 16 August. The line-up... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is expanding its collection of obsolete computer equipment and software so it can access and preserve donations in outdated... Read more |
Earth Platinum, the world’s largest atlas, published by Australian publisher Millennium House in 2012, is on display at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW), reports... Read more |
Condom vending machines have been installed in the public toilets at Footscray Library in Melbourne, reports the Herald Sun. The library is the only council-owned... Read more |
Canadian libraries protest high ebook prices Canadian library organisations have launched a joint protest against the high ebook prices being charged to libraries by major... Read more |
Author Antonia Hayes has been a bookseller, book publicist and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Her debut novel Relativity (Viking) is a family drama... Read more |
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Affirm Press publisher Aviva Tuffield will leave the company ‘after current projects are finalised’. (See news.)
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The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a one-day copy editing workshop with Meryl Potter, on Tuesday, 21 July from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.... Read more |
Applications for the James Patterson grant for Australian and New Zealand bookstores, totalling $100,000, will close 5pm Tuesday, 30 June. Applications should detail a project... Read more |
 Andrew Matthews—author of Being Happy! and Follow Your Heart has a brand new bestseller: How Life Works:
• already 44 weeks on the bestseller lists in Singapore and Malaysia, bestseller in the Philippines
• released in Australia this month with nationwide media
Seashell Publishers now handles the Australian distribution for all nine Andrew Matthews titles (formerly distributed by Capricorn Link and Woodslane).
To order, call Nicole on 0414 502 143 www.seashell.com.au
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Aboriginal Studies Press, the publishing arm of AIATSIS, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, is inviting expressions of interest from people qualified and able to undertake a review of ASP’s operations. AIATSIS is currently reshaping its priorities and we want ASP to be well positioned to evolve with the rest of the organisation while maintaining its role as one of Australia’s leading Indigenous publishers. The review of ASP will feed into AIATSIS’s forward planning. An understanding of public sector and Indigenous publishing would be valuable.
Aboriginal Studies Press currently publishes a small list of academic and trade books (print and ebooks) in the multidisciplinary area of Australian Indigenous studies. Several books have won or been shortlisted for awards.
Work to be undertaken preferably at the beginning of the new financial year.
Please contact Rachel Ippoliti, Rachel.Ippoliti@aiatsis.gov.au, 02-6246-1131.
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NewSouth Books are thrilled to announce they will represent Berbay Publishing from July 1. Berbay Publishing’s beautiful children’s picture books are unique and eclectic, cover topics that are poignant and imaginative and the artwork is simply stunning. Managing Director Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke says: ‘Berbay Publishing is delighted to join NewSouth Books as we see us as a great fit—alongside their wonderful boutique children’s list and fabulous team.’ Berbay Publishing’s new September titles are Bake Babushka rrp $24.95 (9780980671179) and It So Happens rrp $29.95 (9780994289506). To order, contact TLD Customer Service (E. orders@tldistribution.com.au, P. 02 87789999)
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To help celebrate 20 years of publishing Arthur Upfield, ETT Imprint has coproduced the first series of the BONEY TV series for live streaming on www.bonapartefilms.com and now has 33 books in print.
To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mary Gilmore, ETT Imprint will open the official Gilmore site for schools with audio, downloads and musical adaptions on www.marygilmore.org for the Estate, administered by the NSW Trustee and Guardian.
After twenty years of publishing Judith Wright, ETT Imprint has withdrawn from publishing A Human Pattern and all rights to all poems in AHP move to HarperCollins management through their contract for Collected Poems. Publisher Tom Thompson thanks HCP staff for their help in promoting and protecting the copyright of our mutual author.
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Lonely Planet will be implementing a new inventory management system in early July, while we anticipate a smooth transition some delays with dispatching of orders may occur. We ask for your patience during this testing period.
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The first book in Rachel Renée Russell’s new illustrated book series The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, will be published globally by Simon & Schuster in April 2016, and followed by a second book in 2017.
Russell is Australia’s 8th bestselling children’s author and her previous titles in the Dork Diaries series combined have sold almost 500,000 copies in Australia. The latest release Dork Diaries: Drama Queen is the 6th bestselling title in Australia this week.
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