Publishers and distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 30 November. A full list will appear... Read more |
The federal government is set to repeal existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books after accepting the Competition Policy Review’s recommendations to drop PIRs. The government published a full... Read more |
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under... Read more |
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fourth Independent Publishing Conference returned to the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 19-21 November after being held in Sydney last... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Amnesia (Peter Carey,... Read more |
Erik Jensen has won the 2015 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for his book Acute Misfortune (Black Inc.). Wright was presented... Read more |
The Grapple Annual No. 1 (ed by Duncan Felton), an anthology of prose, poetry, comics and art published by Canberra independent press Grapple Publishing, has... Read more |
The film rights to Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman’s YA novel Illuminae (A&U) have been sold to Plan B Entertainment—a US production company owned by Brad... Read more |
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for next year’s national conference, to be held at the Menzies Hotel in Sydney from 20-21... Read more |
The film and television rights to Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka have been optioned by Ruby Entertainment via Jacinta di Mase Management. Ruby... Read more |
The 2016 Australian Book Design Awards will include a new award for Best Designed Scholarly and Reference Book, bringing the total categories to 16. Eligible titles... Read more |
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has acquired local and Commonwealth rights at auction to Melissa Ashley’s debut novel The Birdman’s Wife from Lyn Tranter at Australian... Read more |
Creative Victoria has announced changes to its funding for organisations ahead of its 2017 funding cycle. Funding for the Organisations Investment Program has changed to four... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year Award. The joint winners were Micheal Earp from... Read more |
A new writers’ festival dedicated to Indigenous writing will be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 February. Blak & Bright, the inaugural... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Resource in... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Older readers The... Read more |
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza... Read more |
The New Zealand government will collect a GST on ebooks and other digital products purchased online from overseas retailers from October next year. Revenue minister Todd McClay... Read more |
The winners of the Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners in the five categories are: Birth to... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are:... Read more |
In the UK, Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots (Oneworld) has won the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award... Read more |
In the US, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced. The fiction award was presented to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles: Stories... Read more |
Children’s book sales in China rose 20% in 2014 and are up 13% in 2015 to date, according to figures from China’s book sales data... Read more |
David Almond has won this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for A Song for Ella Grey (Hodder Children’s), a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and... Read more |
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) is launching a campaign across its social media platforms to raise awareness about the industry among school leavers,... Read more |
The books selected for next year’s World Book Night in the UK and Ireland have been announced. Fifteen titles will be handed out by volunteers... Read more |
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold German rights to Band of Gold (Deb Challinor) to Weltbild. Spinifex Press has sold German rights to Figments of a Murder... Read more |
The top two entries in the overall bestsellers chart remain unchanged from last week, with Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School (Jeff Kinney, Puffin)... Read more |
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‘What differentiates this book from other teen self-help books is that it speaks unequivocally to young girls’ … read Sherri Kalow’s full review here.
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ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an... Read more |
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) was named Best Community Event at the 2015 Australian Event Awards in Sydney on 17 November. The annual award is presented to... Read more |
The new Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, which opened on 21 November, is the first regional public library to connect to the Australian Academic and... Read more |
The State Library of South Australia has launched an art installation that projects images from its archival collections onto the external walls of the Institute... Read more |
Workers strike over plans to convert libraries to gyms In the UK, workers at Lambeth Library went on strike last week to protest the proposed... Read more |
In 2008 the Australian Productivity Commission announced a review into parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books, drawing some passionate responses from the book industry. Revisit the responses... Read more |
Bookings for the 12th National CBCA Conference 2016 are now open. The 2016 conference, entitled ‘Read: Myriad Possibilities’, will be held at the Menzies Hotel... Read more |
Entries for the 64th Australian Book Design Awards are now open. The competition is open to books designed and published for the first time in... Read more |
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services [HEDS] will be closed on the afternoon of Friday 4 December. All orders received up to and including Thursday 3 December will be processed and despatched on the morning of Friday 4 December. All orders received during Friday 4 December will be despatched on Monday 7 December, which is in accordance with our normal despatch timetable. For price and availability of titles, please visit www.harperhq.com.au, www.harperhq.co.nz or www.titlepage.com.au.
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This December, Story Box Library are partnering with the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance (ACLA) and their ‘Share a Story’ Calendar project. In keeping with the ‘Give a Story’ theme for the month we are giving a FREE 12-month Family Subscription to Story Box Library to anyone who purchases a Family Membership subscription.
We are encouraging bookshops to get in touch with us to receive a batch of beautiful specially designed bookmarks to distribute to their customers promoting this initiative.
Story Box Library connects and inspires young imaginations with an online library of quality Australian stories read by our best storytellers, including Nick Cave, Missy Higgins, Colin Lane, Justine Clarke, Andy Griffiths, Sally Rippin and many more! We proudly align ourselves with ACLA as champions of the importance and value of reading and storytelling among our young Australians.
For more information about Story Box Library or to order your bookmarks please contact:
Jennifer Kean, Marketing & Communications Manager
Email: jen@storyboxlibrary.com.au
Mobile: 0413 711 389
Website: www.storyboxlibrary.com.au
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