Hachette launches modern classics list
Hachette has announced its first cross-publisher modern classics list to be published in its international territories, including Australia, New Zealand, India and Ireland. Hachette Essentials comprises a curated selection of...
New York Public Library initiates ‘Insta Novels’ on Instagram
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has established a program of public-domain literary classics produced as Instagram stories in order to test Instagram users’ interest in long-form reading, reports Publishing...
Melbourne Uni to hold public lectures on ‘10 Great Books’
The University of Melbourne will hold a series of public lectures based on ‘10 Great Books’ throughout 2014. The series, which will launch in February with a discussion of Jean-Jacques...
Penguin launches Australian Classics
Penguin has launched its first series of Australian Classics, beginning with six titles spanning several generations of Australian writers. Launched in late November, the first six titles are: The Getting...
Picador to launch Modern Classics
In the US, Macmillan imprint Picador is launching a Modern Classics list, beginning with the 25th-anniversary edition of Jonathan Franzen’s first novel The Twenty-Seventh City in November, reports Publishers Weekly....
Penguin to publish Green Popular Penguins
Penguin Books Australia has announced that it will publish 50 classic crime novels in July as part of a new range of Green Popular Penguins. The new range will feature...
Random House reveals bestselling Vintage Classics for 2012
Random House has revealed its 20 bestselling Vintage Classics books for 2012. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is at the top of the list, which incorporates Vintage Classics and Vintage...
HarperCollins to publish new series of A&R Australian Classics
HarperCollins is launching a new series of Australian classics called A&R Australian Classics. The series, which combines ‘traditional and contemporary’ literature from writers such as Miles Franklin, George Johnston, Eleanor...
Penguin releases new range of classics, Drop Caps
Penguin has released a new range of classics, with each book’s cover displaying a different letter of the alphabet. Drop Caps is a series of 26 hardback classics, each featuring...
Momentum launches $1.99 classics
Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum has launched a range of science-fiction, romance and erotic classics, each priced at $1.99. There are currently seven titles in the Momentum classics range: We...
Penguin, McGrath Foundation to launch ‘Pink Popular Penguins’
Penguin Books Australia will publish a limited edition set of 12 of its ‘Popular Penguins’ books with pink covers in March to help raise money for the McGrath Foundation. The...
Text to take Classics to UK and North America
Melbourne-based publisher Text Publishing has announced that it will publish books in the UK and in North America for the first time next month. Text said in a statement that it will...
Classics for kids
Is there a market for contemporary editions of children’s classics? Publishers seem to think so. Rita Yazdani investigates. In August, Random House launched the first 23 titles in its Vintage...
Penguin to launch children’s classics list
Penguin Australia has announced it will publish a new list of children’s classics. The Penguin Australian Children's Classics ‘is a celebration of our country's most precious childhood stories, presented in...
New website to promote Australian literature
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will soon launch a new website to promote Australian literature. Plans for the Reading Australia project were unveiled last week at the...
Booksellers welcome classics revival
Australian booksellers have welcomed the recent wave of publishers releasing branded classics, saying they have made classic books more accessible and attractive to readers, and have provided a new angle...
The Motherlode: the best books for Mother’s Day
Craft and baking books are big this Mother’s Day, but if mum prefers to curl up with a new novel or bio, there are plenty of those too. Andrea Hanke...
Our pick of the latest Popular Penguins
Penguin Australia has just announced the next 75 titles in its Popular Penguins list, to be released in July. They got the word out with this video, but we've rounded...