With reports of a steady level of professional attendance and no standout books or themes at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest talking point... Read more |
Each of the individuals and organisations invited to sit on the new Book Council of Australia have confirmed their acceptance, although several have told Books+Publishing they have not heard... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Leading Edge Books will hold their 2016 conferences at the QT Hotel in Canberra. This is the fourth year... Read more |
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the program for its 2015 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run in Melbourne from 19-21 November. The conference... Read more |
Children’s book authors and publishers Susannah McFarlane and Louise Park have launched Stories Inc., a children’s publishing consultancy service for Australian publishers. Stories Inc. will... Read more |
ClubsNSW is ‘continuing to seek legal advice’ in relation to Peter Garrett’s memoir Big Blue Sky, which was published by Allen & Unwin on 14... Read more |
The University of Melbourne has appointed author Richard Flanagan as the Boisbouvier Founding Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, a new professorship... Read more |
Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (NewSouth) has won the 2015 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Book... Read more |
Meredith Fletcher has won the top prize at the Victorian Community History Awards (VCHA) for her book Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley (Monash University... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Joan Metge, a social anthropologist who has written several books... Read more |
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information... Read more |
Six Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Australians Ursula Dubosarsky, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman, Alison Lester,... Read more |
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Roy Higgins (Patrick Bartley, Penguin) The Short Long... Read more |
UK independent publisher Legend Press has acquired the rights to titles from two Australian authors, reports the Bookseller. The publisher has purchased the rights to... Read more |
Children’s book publisher Christmas Press has received $10,000 from Australia Post’s ‘Our Neighbourhood’ grant program to set up a new imprint. The publisher, which is based... Read more |
The New Zealand Film and Literature Board has lifted a ban on the sale and supply of New Zealand author Ted Dawe’s YA novel Into... Read more |
The finalists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Best... Read more |
Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $1m in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual... Read more |
Amazon Publishing’s translation imprint AmazonCrossing has launched a portal that allows publishers, authors and agents to suggest books for translation, reports VentureBeat. ‘Our new website for submissions... Read more |
In the US, the shortlists for the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature.... Read more |
Swedish author David Lagercrantz has been contracted to write two more novels in the ‘Millenium’ series (Quercus), reports the Bookseller. The fifth novel in the... Read more |
In the US, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against more than 1000 people it claims are writing fake reviews on its website, reports the Guardian.... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlists for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards have been announced. Award categories include Best Adult Digital Book, Best Children’s Digital Book,... Read more |
The inaugural Kampot Writers & Readers Festival in Cambodia, running 5-8 November, has announced its program. Australian musician and author Paul Kelly and Cambodian human... Read more |
Professional attendance at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair was approximately level with 2014, with 140,474 attendees this year compared to 140,291 last year, reports Publishers... Read more |
A new survey from the Pew Research Centre has found the number of print book readers in the US has dropped slightly from the previous... Read more |
Millie Marotta has the top two titles in this week’s bestseller charts, with her adult colouring books Tropical Wonderland and Animal Kingdom (both Batsford) in first... Read more |
‘Clancy of the Undertow is a beautiful story. It’s about the pressure that depression can have on a family, how it can slowly push everyone... Read more |
Librarian and teacher Heather Fisher has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched a Digital Classroom designed to bring the library’s collection into Australian schools. The new sub-site of the... Read more |
Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR), the advocacy arm of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), is calling for nominations for outstanding... Read more |
The Tweed Shire Council in NSW’s Northern Rivers region has launched the region’s first seed library at Murwillumbah Library, reports Echo Netdaily. The seed library... Read more |
Court rules in favour of Google book-scanning after decade-long dispute In the US, a federal appeals court has ruled that Google has not violated copyright... Read more |
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Books+Publishing asked a range of Australian publishers to share their recent rights successes ahead of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Read their responses here.
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Expressions of interest are now open to join a delegation of Australian publishers and literature programmers to travel to Kolkata, Delhi and Jaipur in January... Read more |
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