More than 40 literary organisations including publishers, writers’ centres, literary journals and writers’ festivals are calling for the government to consult with the literary community... Read more |
The judging panels for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) have been revealed on the PMLA website, showing few changes to the 2014 panels. Sydney... Read more |
ABC Television director Richard Finlayson has issued a statement outlining the network’s reasons for not broadcasting last year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards ceremony in December,... Read more |
New Zealand author Ted Dawe’s 2013 YA novel Into the River has been temporarily banned from sale or supply in his home country following complaints... Read more |
The winners of the NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced as part of the official launch of NSW History Week. The awards, which total... Read more |
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The shortlisted titles are: Isabelle of the Moon... Read more |
Book recommendation website Better Reading has announced the results of its inaugural Top 100 Books survey, which tallied the favourite books of around 5000 Australian... Read more |
Readings head of marketing and communications Emily Harms has been appointed head of marketing and communications at the Wheeler Centre, beginning on 28 September. Harms... Read more |
The longlist for Hachette Australia’s inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers has been announced. The longlisted authors are: Sally Abbott Toni Bartlett Alice Bishop Lyndel... Read more |
UK-US author Rob Magnuson Smith has won the 2015 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for his story ‘The Elector of Nossnearly’.... Read more |
Australian author Foz Meadows has signed a two-book deal with UK publisher Angry Robot. Angry Robot acquired world English-language rights to Meadows’ An Accident of... Read more |
UK author Jonathan Tel has won the 2015 Commonwealth 2015 Short Story Prize for his story ‘The Human Phonograph’. The £5000 (A$10,987) prize is presented... Read more |
A group of authors, led by Patrick Ness, have raised over £500,000 (A$1.1m) for Syrian refugees, reports the Bookseller. Ness launched the fundraising campaign on... Read more |
In the US, sales of Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster ebooks through Amazon have fallen since the publishers signed new distribution deals, which included provisions for... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) have acquired world English-language rights to the self-published picture book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep (Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin) in... Read more |
Book Depository founder Emad Eldeen Elakehal will launch a new international online bookseller later this year, reports Internet Retailing. Elakehal founded the Book Depository in... Read more |
Two new titles, Lee Child’s 20th ‘Jack Reacher’ novel Make Me (Bantam) and David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider Web (Hachette), the fourth instalment... Read more |
Scholastic Australia and the National Maritime Museum in Sydney will co-produce an interactive exhibition based on a book in the popular ‘Horrible Histories’ series by author... Read more |
The Co-op’s University of Queensland St Lucia store trainee manager Thomas Riek has been named a finalist in the National Retail Association’s (NRA) Young Retailer... Read more |
University of Southern Queensland (USQ) academic Helen Partridge has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant to study ‘the role of libraries as... Read more |
Judy Atkinson, coordinator of Coffs Harbour Children’s and Youth Services in NSW, has been named the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Library Technician of... Read more |
National Library of Ireland hit by funding cuts The latest annual review of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) has found it is operating with... Read more |
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In Books+Publishing’s latest talkback column we ask four booksellers, should publishers use the same cover design for different territories where possible? Read their responses here.
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Readings head of marketing and communications Emily Harms has been appointed head of marketing and communications at the Wheeler Centre. (See news.)
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 The Australian Beekeeping Manual
Robert Owen
The most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia
344 pages includes over 350 detailed instructional photographs and illustrations
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 The social media achievements of Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel media company, have been recognised internationally by travel industry intelligence website Skift. Lonely Planet has won the annual ‘Most Engaged Community across Social Media’ Award. This is the second year Skift has recognised global travel brands that have turned social media interactions into quantifiable business objectives. In 2014, Lonely Planet received Skift’s ‘Best Branded Instagram Account’ Award.
Lonely Planet has more than three million fans across its Twitter accounts alone, including @lonelyplanet (global), @lonelyplanetAUS (regional) and the new Lonely Planet Kids handle @lpkids. Lonely Planet also engages with its dedicated community across a variety of other social media platforms, including Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Vine, LinkedIn, Flipboard, Pinterest, YouTube, Flickr, Snapchat and Spotify.
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