Melbourne-based Jojo Publishing, which charges writers a fee to publish their books, has filed for voluntary liquidation. In September the company was the subject of... Read more |
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Please note that, due to the public holiday on Friday 2 October in Victoria, tomorrow’s Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published.
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in November 2015 to February 2016. Three books received four stars from our reviewers: New... Read more |
Macquarie University has revealed key findings from a February 2015 survey of more than 1000 Australian authors of trade and educational titles. The report is... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2015 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Director is the... Read more |
Former Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia managing director Lou Johnson has launched a new publishing venture, The Author People. Johnson, who stepped down as S&S managing... Read more |
New publisher Smith Street Books will launch in 2016, specialising in quirky, illustrated titles. The Melbourne-based press will be run by founder and publisher Paul... Read more |
Kill Your Darlings editor Brigid Mullane and former Emerging Writers’ Festival CEO Sam Twyford-Moore have formed The Melbourne Agency, a literary and creative talent agency... Read more |
Angus & Robertson and Bookworld online bookstores will merge to create a new site on 6 October. Booktopia CEO Tony Nash told Books+Publishing the creation... Read more |
Adelaide Writers’ Week has announced the line-up for its 2016 festival. Among the international guests are US neuroscientist and author of Still Alice (S&S) Lisa Genova,... Read more |
A new Australia Council for the Arts report has found that network development is the most common overseas activity for Australian writers and publishers, while access... Read more |
IBBY Australia has selected three titles for the 2016 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List, including, for the first time,... Read more |
Paul Cleave has won the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for his novel Five Minutes Alone (Penguin NZ). This is the second time Cleave has won... Read more |
A new bookstore in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, will exclusively stock small press titles, including print-on-demand and some self-published books, to showcase local authors, reports... Read more |
Margaret River Press directors John and Caroline Wood have launched a new literary events organisation in Perth. The Centre for Stories, located in the inner-city... Read more |
Hachette Australia has announced the release of a new ‘Twilight’ novel by author Stephanie Meyer, in which the genders of the two main characters are... Read more |
The shortlist for Overland’s Story Wine Prize 2015 has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘I am Ali’ by Clint Caward ‘417—BVB—820’ by Lauren Foley ‘Woodsmoke’... Read more |
‘I suspect this is the heyday of [writers’] festivals, and they will, in fact, evolve into something else’—Bendigo Writers Festival director Rosemary Sorensen responds to... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Fremantle has sold German rights to Getting Warmer (Alan Carter) to Edition Nautilus. Jacinta di Mase Literary Management has sold North American rights to... Read more |
New release title Golden Lion (Wilbur Smith & Giles Kristian, HarperCollins) has debuted third on this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, sitting behind The 65-Storey... Read more |
Apple has launched iBooks, iTunes Movies and Apple Music in China, reports Reuters. Paid iBooks start at 0.5 yuan (A$0.11), although free iBooks are also... Read more |
In the UK, the winners of the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry have been announced at a ceremony in London. Jamaican-born writer Claudia Rankine won... Read more |
In the UK, the Folio Prize has announced it will not run in 2016, following The Folio Society’s decision to end its sponsorship of the... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Beatlebone (Kevin Barry, Canongate), Acts of the Assassins... Read more |
The London Book Fair (LBF) will take place on 14-16 March in 2017 to avoid a ‘bottleneck’ of book fairs, reports Publishers Weekly. The move... Read more |
The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced this Thursday 8 October (7pm AEDT), reports the Guardian. Among the favourites at... Read more |
Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya has revealed plans to increase direct purchases of books from publishers—as opposed to the conventional practice of buying them through wholesale... Read more |
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is removing Amazon’s Kindle devices from many of its stores due to ‘pitiful’ sales, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt... Read more |
‘This fourth novel from well-known Australian writer Debra Adelaide pays homage to Wuthering Heights and combines a creative metatextual structure with contemplation about mothers’ …... Read more |
The newly formed organisation Women in Literary Arts Australia (WILAA) has announced its steering committee. Joining the organisation’s founder, writer and producer Lefa Singleton Norton,... Read more |
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) is calling for applications for its new $30,000 Digital Fellowship. The DX Lab Fellowship is the first... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the nine recipients of its 2016 fellowships. The fellowships, which are open to both emerging and established... Read more |
Due to popular demand, Grafton and Maclean libraries in regional NSW will be holding more study nights in the lead-up to the HSC, reports the... Read more |
Argentina proposes 100-year extension on copyright for photography Copyright for photographic works may be extended from 20 years after publication to 70 years after the... Read more |
‘I’d actually never intended to write a novel set in the US but in 2013 St Martin’s Press in New York offered me a two-book... Read more |
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Pan Macmillan Australia has appointed Victoria Nash as its digital business director, and Praveen Naidoo as its operations director. (See classified.)
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Phillip Knowles has been appointed NSW and ACT Territory Manager at NewSouth Publishing. (See classified.)
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The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) reviewing journal Reading Time has undergone a transformation. It is now online and issues a weekly newsletter. Subscription to the... Read more |
Join your fellow Small Press Network members, and other industry folks, for a casual get-together in Brisbane, Melbourne or Perth. All SPN members and their... Read more |
NewSouth Books is delighted to announce the appointment of Phillip Knowles as their new NSW and ACT Territory Manager.
Phillip can be contacted for an appointment by phone on 0466697744 or by email at phillip.knowles@newsouthbooks.com.au.
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Pan Macmillan Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to their Australian & New Zealand board. Victoria Nash has been appointed Digital Business Director and Praveen Naidoo has been appointed Operations Director.
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