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The Copyright Agency has announced it has boosted the value of its annual fellowship program from $120,000 to $285,000, including a new $80,000 fellowship for... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for its inaugural PRH Australia Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize aims to find and develop new... Read more |
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Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold rights to two forthcoming children’s books. World rights (ex ANZ) to Antonia Pesenti’s board book Rhyme Cordial were sold... Read more |
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Bonnier Publishing’s Echo imprint has acquired three new novels, set for release in 2018 and 2019. Echo had acquired world rights to the second novel... Read more |
Melbourne-based publisher Berbay Publishing has been invited by the Spanish cultural agency Acción Cultural Española to participate in FLIC Professional in March 2018. FLIC is... Read more |
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A number of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Janet McCalman was made Companion (AC) in the General Division... Read more |
Producers Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have acquired screen rights to Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow. Deadline Hollywood reports that... Read more |
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UPLIT has announced Carl Lindgren as the guest artistic director for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival. Lindgren will serve as guest artistic director until the... Read more |
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Fremantle Press will release three new editions of A B Facey’s 1981 novel A Fortunate Life this year, after publication rights recently returned to the... Read more |
Anne Pender, professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of New England, has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to study the ‘lives and output’... Read more |
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UK screenwriter Bridget Lawless has launched the Staunch Book Prize—an award for the best thriller novel in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited,... Read more |
In the UK, the late Helen Dunmore has been awarded the £30,000 (A$51,700) Costa Book of the Year award for her poetry collection Inside the... Read more |
In the UK, HarperCollins’ consumer sales grew 8.1% in value in 2017, while the Big Four’s total market share dipped slightly, reports the Bookseller. The... Read more |
In the UK, sales at bookselling chain WHSmith’s high street stores fell four percent like-for-like over the Christmas period—a decline partly attributed to the fall... Read more |
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In the UK, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection was Audible’s highest-selling title for 2017, reports the Bookseller. The nine-story collection, which is... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to the first two books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ series, Cocaine Blues and Flying too... Read more |
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There are few changes in the overall bestseller charts this week, with the top three titles mirroring last week’s and only one new entry in... Read more |
‘Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed “NSW’s most troubled school”, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of... Read more |
‘We cannot compete with the likes of Amazon when it takes [so] long to replenish stock in key trading periods’—Dymocks head of merchandise and marketing Sophie Higgins reflects the sentiment of other booksellers in her response to Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas survey.
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For the second year in a row, Christmas sales were ‘about the same’ for a majority of booksellers (69%), according to the results of Books+Publishing’s... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s first Reviews newsletter for 2018 contains 13 reviews of books publishing in February and March. Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton,... Read more |
A number of ALIA members have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Former ALIA president Margaret Allen was awarded a Public Service Medal... Read more |
In the US, library provider OverDrive has revealed 58 international library systems recorded over one million digital lends in 2017—up from 49 in 2016, reports... Read more |
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William Yeoman is the West Australian literary editor and guest curator of the Perth Festival Writers Week (PFWW) 2018. Following the launch of the full... Read more |
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Tim Coronel has been appointed communications manager at Small Press Network. Coronel commenced the role in January.
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 ABC Books and Harper Collins congratulate Tracey Spicer on being awarded an AM for her work in the media and as an ambassador for charitable and social welfare groups. ABC Books recently published Tracey Spicer’s memoir, The Good Girl Stripped Bare.
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