The 2017-18 federal budget has confirmed the return of Catalyst funding to the Australia Council, first announced in March this year. The budget papers show... Read more
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The federal government will extend its $20,000 ‘instant’ tax deduction threshold for small businesses for another 12 months. The scheme, which was first introduced in... Read more
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The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. The shortlisted titles are: Going Out Backwards: A... Read more
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The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its full 2017 program, which runs from 14-23 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD, Footscray and Dandenong. The... Read more
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The Victorian government has allocated $300,000 to the Wheeler Centre in its 2017-18 state budget for a new podcasting centre. The Wheeler Centre will use the... Read more
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Representatives from four Australian publishers have been selected to participate in the 2017 Austrade China-Korea Publisher Visits program. The delegation, led by Penguin Random House... Read more
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Adelaide-based author Adam Cece has won the 2017 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for his middle-grade manuscript ‘The Extremely Weird Thing That... Read more
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The ballot for the 2017 Ditmar Awards was announced on 10 April. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG) The... Read more
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Hachette New Zealand’s sales and marketing director Mel Winder has been promoted to managing director of the New Zealand business. Winder has run Hachette’s New... Read more
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The Copyright Agency has defended its $15m Future Fund, to be used for advocacy and litigation in response to the threat of changes to the... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is conducting a survey of pay rates for writers and illustrators ‘as a first step towards updating the rates... Read more
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US YA author Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Wings and Ruin sold over 1300 units across Dymocks stores on its 2 May release date,... Read more
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Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to Margot McGovern’s contemporary YA debut Neverland. Random House Young Readers publisher Zoe Walton acquired ANZ rights and... Read more
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Affirm Press has acquired a collection of playscripts by comedian Shaun Micallef, to be published next year. In a statement, Affirm publishing director Martin Hughes... Read more
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The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has launched a new app in Ngaanyatjarra and English languages for the Warburton community in Western Australia. The app, which... Read more
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The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has partnered with Australian party supplies company The Party People to promote Children’s Book Week. The CBCA said... Read more
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Writers Susan Hawthorne, Frances Henke and Kate Richards have been presented with Inspire Awards for Best Achievement in Writing, administered by the Victorian Supreme Court’s... Read more
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A new Amazon policy introduced on 1 March allows third-party sellers to compete for the Buy Box usually reserved for the publisher, reports the Huffington... Read more
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The European Commission has accepted Amazon’s offer to remove its ‘Most Favoured Nation’ clauses from ebook contracts, which had required publishers to give Amazon either... Read more
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Pan Macmillan has been named Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards for the second time in three years, reports the Bookseller. Pan... Read more
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Francis Spufford’s debut novel Golden Hill (Faber) has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize in the UK. The annual £10,000 (A$17,630) prize is... Read more
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In the UK, the shortlist for the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: A Closed and... Read more
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In the UK, a majority of Pearson voted to reject CEO John Fallon’s £1.5m (A$2.62m) pay packet following a year in which the company made... Read more
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Former US president Bill Clinton and author James Patterson have teamed up to write a political thriller, which will be published by Cornerstone in June... Read more
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Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world German-language rights to Bonkers (Michelle Holman) to Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur. Scribe has sold UK & Commonwealth audio rights to The... Read more
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A number of new releases have entered the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, although none could unseat The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) from the... Read more
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‘While each of Simpson’s novels has shown a strong connection to land and nature, this book allows her to expand her observations and concerns, and... Read more
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains eight reviews of books publishing in June and July 2017. The two highest scoring books were Steven Lang’s Hinterland (UQP,... Read more
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Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains nine reviews of books publishing in June and July. The two highest-scoring titles were Kyle Hughes-Odgers’ picture-book One Thousand Trees... Read more
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Residents in the Geelong suburb of Chilwell are petitioning to save their library after the Geelong council announced it was one of three libraries set... Read more
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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) board of directors has awarded an ALIA fellowship to Ann Ritchie for her work in the field of... Read more
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The American Library Association’s American Libraries publication has released its annual Library Systems Report by library technology consultant Marshall Breeding. The report argues that the... Read more
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Former children’s book publisher Margaret Hamilton AM recently retired from the national board of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) after 57 years with... Read more
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UK-based Australian blogger Kim Forrester started Reading Matters in 2004 to help her remember what she was reading. Now she likes to focus on ‘books... Read more
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