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J C Jones’ Run, Pip, Run (A&U) has won the 2016 Readings Children’s Book Prize. The book was chosen from a shortlist of six. Also... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2016 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Six Bedrooms (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vintage) Clade... Read more |
Chinese publisher Zhejiang Junior & Children Publishing (ZJJ&C) has purchased a share in local children’s publisher New Frontier, in a deal that will see New... Read more |
The finalists for the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, have been announced. The finalists... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired two new novels from Miles Franklin Award-winning UK-Australian author Evie Wyld, reports the Bookseller. UK and Commonwealth rights were... Read more |
Two projects created by undergraduate students from the University of Sydney have won the inaugural Dymocks Innovation Challenge Awards. Two business students won the Digital... Read more |
Peter Carey has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Carey, who is based in the US... Read more |
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) released its 2016 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12, last month. The program, which runs... Read more |
Lip magazine’s 2016 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been presented to Katy Warner for her story ‘One Hundred and Fifty Seconds’. The award, now... Read more |
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the best designed cover category... Read more |
Booktopia has been shortlisted for the 2016 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAS). Booktopia is in the running for Best Pure-Play Online Retailer, Best Mobile Commerce... Read more |
Stella Prize-winning author and historian Clare Wright and Ten Network general manager Russel Howcroft have been appointed to the Wheeler Centre board. Wright and Howcroft... Read more |
In the US, consumers are receiving reimbursement credits for previously purchased ebooks following the end of the Apple ebook price-fixing case in March, reports the... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) will sell its travel business Fodor’s to US online media and technology company Internet Brands for an undisclosed sum, reports Publishers... Read more |
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, with Sarah Crossan’s... Read more |
British author Simon Mawer has won the £25,000 (A$49,170) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his 10th novel Tightrope (Little, Brown). The judges described... Read more |
Hachette UK has bought mobile games development studio Neon Play in a ‘substantial acquisition’ that could be the ‘one of several’ purchases in the apps... Read more |
In the UK, the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize has been awarded to Canadian author Margaret Atwood, reports the Bookseller. Atwood will receive the award and... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Wrong ’Un (Brad Hogg & Greg Growden) to Wavesound; world audio rights to Playing to... Read more |
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Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You film tie-in (Michael Joseph) has retained its top spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart, with the B-format paperback edition... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) pledge to return funding to the National Library of Australia’s (NLA)... Read more |
The recipients of the 2016 Honours of the Library Council of NSW have been announced at an awards ceremony at the State Library of NSW.... Read more |
The Toronto Public Library in Canada will offer lendable Wi-Fi hotspots at six branches in low-income neighbourhoods, reports the Toronto Star. The library included C$100,000... Read more |
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from... Read more |
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network released its first book The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon in 2013. ‘We wanted to find a way... Read more |
The Children’s Publishing Committee of the APA in conjunction with the ABA will hold a one-day seminar on children’s publishing and bookselling, on Wednesday 27... Read more |
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