Oxford University Press (OUP) Australia and New Zealand has recorded a 2% turnover growth and 54% profit growth in the 2014-15 financial year. OUP Australia... Read more
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Affirm Press has appointed Fiona Henderson as its new publisher following the departure of Aviva Tuffield. Henderson has worked in publishing for more than 20... Read more
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The Ministry for the Arts has released the draft guidelines for the National Program for Excellence in the Arts, which indicates that all funding proposals... Read more
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The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2015 National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir. The shortlisted titles are: An Unsentimental... Read more
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The titles shortlisted for this year’s Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Three... Read more
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The 2015 Gourmand Awards for the ‘Best in the World’ cookbooks and wine and drink books have been announced. Five Australian titles came in first... Read more
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The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival will be held at Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart from 11-13 September, with Don Watson, Helen Garner and Bob... Read more
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The Mad Hatters Bookshop has opened in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Manly. The new store is run by Anne-Marie Finn and Kaylene Hobson, who purchased... Read more
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The Copyright Agency has relaunched its Reading Australia website with a new design and new content. The website, which provides free resources for teachers to... Read more
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The New Zealand Book Awards will return in 2016 with a new structure, judging process and an annual NZ$50,000 (A$44,595) prize for fiction, with the... Read more
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The Australian government has announced that Rupert Myer has been reappointed chair of the Australia Council. The retailer and philanthropist was first appointed to the... Read more
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Life or Death by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been shortlisted for the 2015 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger award for best crime... Read more
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Five books have been shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel by a New Zealand writer. The shortlisted titles are: Five... Read more
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The 2015 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: What If? (Kristen Young, Fervr) The Wisdom of Islam... Read more
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Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun Publishing has signed its first three international rights deals. The publisher has sold US rights to Amanda Hickie’s thriller An Ordinary... Read more
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‘We couldn’t believe the overwhelming feedback we had from Perth readers when we were closing. Even with the doors shut last week, the amount of... Read more
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Sales Fiction—MidnightSun has sold US rights to An Ordinary Epidemic (Amanda Hickie) to Little, Brown. Nonfiction—Exisle has sold Korean rights to What Makes You Happy... Read more
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E L James’ Grey (Arrow) has enjoyed a second week at number one on the overall bestsellers chart, while Johanna Basford’s two colouring books Enchanted Forest... Read more
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Michael Zifcak, former chairman of Collins Booksellers and Hill of Content Publishing, has died, aged 96. Zifcak was the chairman of Collins Booksellers and its publishing... Read more
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The Man Booker International Prize has announced it will merge with the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and move to an annual format, with the prize... Read more
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The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal will publish the first chapter of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) online on 10 July... Read more
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Zambia’s Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘The Sack’. Published in the collection Africa39: New Writing... Read more
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The sale of graphic novels and periodical comics in North America reached a combined total of US$935m (A$1225m) in 2014, a 7% increase on 2013, reports comics... Read more
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In the UK, Transworld has partnered with the Sun newspaper to promote Lee Child’s ‘Jack Reacher’ series, reports the Bookseller. The first Jack Reacher Week... Read more
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In the UK, Claire Fuller’s Our Endless Numbered Days (Penguin) has won the £10,000 (A$20,438) Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction. Fuller’s debut novel was... Read more
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Scribd is dramatically reducing the number of romance and erotica titles offered through its subscription service in a move that is believed to prevent romance... Read more
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Former University of Queensland (UQP) publishing director Craig Munro’s memoir is a nostalgic retelling of his long and distinguished career in Australian publishing, which coincided... Read more
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Michael Zifcak, former chairman of Collins Booksellers and Hill of Content Publishing, has died, aged 96. Zifcak was the chairman of Collins Booksellers and its publishing... Read more
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Changes to the 1968 Copyright Act, which passed through federal parliament last week, ensure that the National Library of Australia (NLA) will store all electronic... Read more
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The Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton was officially opened on 3 July by lord mayor Robert Doyle after... Read more
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The Australian Public Library Alliance (APLA) has released a report on elending in Australian public libraries. The report provides a snapshot of elending for January... Read more
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The Library at the Dock in Melbourne and the Devonport Library in New Zealand have been nominated for the Danish Agency for Culture’s 2015 Public... Read more
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American Library Association releases national policy agenda The American Library Association (ALA) has released a national policy agenda for libraries to help library advocates ‘engage... Read more
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Honey Brown’s short-story collection Six Degrees (Ventura Press, August) explores romance and sex in rural Australia, and is a departure from the author’s previous books in... Read more
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Affirm Press has appointed Fiona Henderson as its new publisher following the departure of Aviva Tuffield. (See news.)
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Nominations for the 2015 Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature will close Friday, 17 July. The $20,000 Nib Award is presented for excellence in research... Read more
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