The fifth annual National Bookshop Day on Saturday 8 August had the highest ever participation among stores, Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker told... Read more |
The 19th Byron Bay Writers festival (BBWF), which ran from 7-9 August, has reported a record crowd and a ‘roaring trade’ at its bookstore. Festival director... Read more |
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category... Read more |
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The biennial awards, previously known as the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, were rebranded in March.... Read more |
Twelve Panels Press, a new graphic novel publisher based in Melbourne, will publish its first title in late August. The press was founded by Allen... Read more |
Redgum Book Club has launched a Young Writers’ Award for children aged nine to 13, with the winning books to be published and distributed to bookstores... Read more |
Walker Books has announced a partnership with new UK publisher Old Barn Books, which will include Australian and New Zealand distribution of Old Barn Books’ children’s... Read more |
The National Library of New Zealand has named C K Stead as the 2015-17 New Zealand Poet Laureate. Stead, the author of numerous collections of poetry, short... Read more |
The Copyright Agency has re-signed Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Pearson to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years. The three publishers join a... Read more |
The first South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program, offered in partnership with the SA Writers Centre, has been jointly awarded to Rose Hartley and Liana Skrzypczak.... Read more |
Writers Victoria has announced the 2015 winners of its Glenfern Fellowships and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. Glenfern Fellowships were awarded to Audrey El-Osta... Read more |
‘The rare newspaper articles are often scaremongering or derisory, accusing YA of being too dark for teenagers or mocking of adults who read YA’—Linda Morris... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to A Million Windows (Gerald Murnane) to Black Sparrow Books. Acquisitions Fiction—Bolinda has acquired ANZ audio rights to Relativity... Read more |
The Mindfulness Colouring Book (Emma Farrarons, Boxtree) has unseated Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee, William Heinemann) to reclaim top spot on the bestsellers chart,... Read more |
A Russian publishing house has printed a number of books about Vladimir Putin listing prominent Western journalists as the authors, reports the Guardian. Authors Luke... Read more |
In the US, an influential romance blogger has criticised the Romance Writers of America (RWA) for shortlisting a novel at its annual awards about the relationship... Read more |
A new magazine focussing on international children’s literature will launch in 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. The Read Quarterly is co-founded by UK-based children’s book specialists,... Read more |
In the UK, the number of people who own an ereader has increased by four percentage points in the past year to reach 28% of the population,... Read more |
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by... Read more |
Amazon UK has announced its top-selling Kindle books over the past five years to mark five years since the Kindle store opened in the UK, reports... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books—the only major international prize that celebrates science-writing for a non-specialist... Read more |
Australian Book Review has announced the shortlist for this year’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth $8000. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Borges and I’ by... Read more |
Four Adelaide councils plan to write off more than $100,000 in library debts due to an error in the data transfer to the state-wide One... Read more |
In Victoria, a new round of the Living Libraries Grants Program has been launched at the newly refurbished Mansfield Library, reports PSnews. Under the program,... Read more |
Harlequin audiobooks now available in US libraries Harlequin audiobooks are now available in US libraries via a new Harlequin Audio imprint, in conjunction with HarperAudio,... Read more |
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With Father’s Day less than a month away, Tim Coronel rounds up some bookish gift ideas for dads. Read his feature online here.
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Dymocks marketing and loyalty program manager Elain Richards has left the company. Buying and digital manager Sophie Higgins, with support from assistant loyalty manager Paige Butchers, will... Read more |
Registrations are open for Redact 2015, a weekend intensive workshop for freelance and in-house editors with some experience run by Editors Victoria. Redact 2015 is... Read more |
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