For the second year in a row Dymocks Glenelg in Adelaide has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the Dymocks national conference, which... Read more |
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The winners of the 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales on 14... Read more |
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Libby Connors was awarded the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier (A&U) at... Read more |
Nationals MP Michael McCormack was sworn in as the federal small business minister on 19 July, replacing Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer in the position. O’Dwyer... Read more |
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has announced the first line-up of authors to appear at its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October... Read more |
New Zealand publisher Te Papa Press has formed a partnership with Massey University Press, which will see the publishers work together to produce books under... Read more |
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Michael Wagner, children’s book author and founder of boutique publisher Billy Goat Books, has launched an online book club and website to accompany a new... Read more |
Writer and teacher Karen McKnight has been awarded the inaugural Overland Writers Residency, which this year focussed on women writers who are the sole primary... Read more |
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A number of Australian and New Zealand writers are finalists for the 2016 World Fantasy Awards, including New Zealand author Anna Smaill, whose novel The... Read more |
Melbourne-based author Gabrielle Luthy has won a 2016 Romance Writers of America (RWA) Golden Heart award for her unpublished manuscript ‘Shelter Me’ in the contemporary... Read more |
Online bookstore Booktopia has been named a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards in the medium sized category for New South Wales. Booktopia was ineligible... Read more |
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine the Lifted Brow has announced the longlist for its Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The longlisted works are: ‘When Flakes of Ash Fall... Read more |
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Scribe children’s book imprint Scribble has acquired rights to two board books by Australian fashion designers and artists Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, to be... Read more |
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) annual StatShot survey estimated book sales in the US fell slightly in 2015 from the previous year, with revenue... Read more |
In the UK, retail tech start-up NearSt is aiming to connect readers in London with their local high street bookstores by offering customers one-hour delivery... Read more |
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Publishers Little Brown and Hachette Australia have announced the forthcoming release of The Chemist, a new thriller by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, to be published... Read more |
In the US, Amazon has announced the launch of its new nonfiction series ‘Kindle Singles Classics’, which will include ‘hard-to-find’ essays and stories by established... Read more |
In the US, online music subscription service eMusic is relaunching and rebranding its audiobook service under the name eStories, reports Publishers Weekly. The service includes... Read more |
Alice Jolly’s crowdfunded book Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound) has been awarded the 2016 PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography, reports the Bookseller. Jolly received... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold world audio rights to Finding a Way (Graeme Innes) to Wavesound. Children’s—Scholastic has sold US and Canadian rights to I Wanna... Read more |
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After its debut in 20th spot last week, Liz Byrski’s latest novel The Woman Next Door (Macmillan) has risen quickly up the charts in its... Read more |
‘Marchetta doesn’t shy away from the authentic emotions of her characters, her writing capturing their joy and pain as they navigate this crime through the... Read more |
‘Our culture is skewed towards celebrating and supporting the young and I am not sure what can be done about it’—author Krissy Kneen asks where the support is for older writers, in a blog post on her website.
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A new report from ALIA Group Health Libraries Australia (HLA) has found a potentially critical shortage of health librarians. The census report found that for... Read more |
The release of smartphone app game Pokemon Go has resulted in several Australian public libraries becoming ‘sought after’ locations for players, with some libraries actively... Read more |
In the US, Carla Hayden has been confirmed as the 14th Librarian of Congress, the first woman and the first African-American to serve in the... Read more |
Earlier this year, Readings events manager Christine Gordon embarked on a research trip to observe how the bookstores of Paris and London run their events,... Read more |
em PRESS, based in central Victoria, released its first book The People of Gariwerd—about the Grampians’ Aboriginal heritage—in 1999. ‘The primary focus of em PRESS... Read more |
Writers Victoria will host a low-cost professional development and networking day for diverse women writers, allies and industry, to be held on 17 September from... Read more |
Sleepers are no longer publishing the following Steven Amsterdam titles:
- 9781742702117 What the Family Needed
- 9781740667012 Things We Didn’t See Coming.
These books will be published by Hachette from 1 July 2016.
Sleepers/Hardie Grant Publishing will continue to honour returns via UBD until 30 September 2016.
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Minecraft fans are pouring into stores to pick up Minecraft: The Survivors Book of Secrets, the latest official publishing for the world’s most popular sandbox game. New print runs will be arriving over the next 6 weeks but stores are encouraged to place orders early to avoid missing out.
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