Second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll launched Archive
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Nominations for the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll have opened in New Zealand. First launched in 2014 by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival, the initiative sees...
NZ guest of honour program announced for Taipei Archive
Thursday, 22 January 2015
The program for New Zealand’s guest of honour pavilion at the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) has been announced.Eighty-five delegates will represent New Zealand at TIBE, which runs from 11-16 February. The...
National Readathon Day to debut in the US Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In the US, the first National Readathon Day will take place on Saturday 24 January. The event, which is sponsored by the National Book Foundation, Penguin Random House, GoodReads and...
New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
ALIA announces new VP and board candidates Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that Patricia Genat has been elected unopposed as its new vice-president. Genat, who is director of ALS Library Services and president of the Australia Booksellers...
NSW state library seeks digital expert Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The State Library of NSW is looking to hire a ‘director of digital experience and chief information officer’ who can transform the organisation into a ‘centre for digital excellence’, reports...
Library Lovers’ Day celebrations planned Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Libraries around Australia will be participating in Library Lovers’ Day celebrations on Saturday 14 February. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which runs the initiative, offers a list of...
International library news Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Czech library network densest in EUThe Czech library network is the densest in the EU, according to a report in the Prague Post. Of the EU’s 63,000 public libraries, 5408...
‘Visually sophisticated, quirky, funny and daring’: Mike Shuttleworth reports from the Paris children’s book festival Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘France is producing some of the finest books for children in the world,’ writes Mike Shuttleworth, reporting from the Paris children’s book festival Salon du livre et de presse jeunesse...
‘Visually sophisticated, quirky, funny and daring’: Mike Shuttleworth reports from the Paris children’s book festival Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘While it’s true that the French embrace topics and styles that more timid Anglophone picture book publishers would reject, right now, France is producing some of the finest books for...
Quote of the week Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘With e-books and e-readers, there was a crazy, massive spike in the past few years and it was scaring retailers. Now the e-book has 20 per cent of the market...
Digital Writers’ Festival announces events Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Digital Writers’ Festival has announced a number of events in the 2015 program ahead of the full launch on 4 February.The online-only festival, which is hosted by the Emerging Writers’...
RiP Jim Thorburn Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
James Alexander (Jim) Thorburn, former bookseller at Pocket Bookshops in Sydney, has died, aged 90. His daughter, Rosemary Thorburn, writes:‘Jim ran the Pocket Bookshops from 1959 to 1979 with his wife, Hilda....
Adelaide Writers’ Week 2015 program launched Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 28 February to Thursday 5 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide. As previously reported...
Case appointed program manager at MWF Archive
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival has appointed writer, editor and bookseller Jo Case as its new program manager. Case will replace program manager and schools’ program director Mike Shuttleworth. (See news.)
Booktopia counting down ‘Australia’s favourite author’ Archive
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Booktopia is counting down the top 50 finalists in its annual ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ promotion. On 19 January, Booktopia began announcing the top 50 finalists, with 10 finalists revealed each...
S&S, HarperCollins launch direct-to-consumer programs Archive
Monday, 19 January 2015
In the US, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have announced new channels for direct-to-consumer sales, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins has launched a pilot program with cloud reader Aerbook, which enables...
Case appointed program manager at MWF Archive
Monday, 19 January 2015
Writer, editor and bookseller Jo Case has joined the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) as its new program manager.Case, who joins the team in February, will replace program manager and schools’...
Digital Book Awards 2015 winners announced Archive
Friday, 16 January 2015
The Digital Book Awards were announced in New York on 14 January as part of the Digital Book World (DBW) conference. Among the winners in the flowable ebook categories were...
NZ booksellers up 10.5% over Christmas Archive
Friday, 16 January 2015
New Zealand booksellers have increased their Christmas sales by 10.5% in value and 8.6% in volume in 2014, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould said: ‘Figures from Nielsen show a...
Arthur launches arts agency JAM PR Archive
Friday, 16 January 2015
Former Hachette campaign manager Jaki Arthur is launching a new Sydney-based arts agency.Arthur told Books+Publishing that Jaki Arthur Management + PR (JAM PR) will offer services such as books and arts publicity;...
The Wheeler Centre celebrates fifth birthday Archive
Friday, 16 January 2015
The Wheeler Centre is turning five in February.Melbourne’s centre for books, writing and ideas will mark its five-year anniversary with a series of gala events throughout the month. The first is...
Ubud announces 2015 dates Archive
Thursday, 15 January 2015
The 2015 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) will be held from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, and will explore the theme ‘17,000 Islands of Imagination’. Organisers...
Perth Writers Festival 2015 program launched Archive
Thursday, 15 January 2015
The 2015 Perth Writers Festival program has been launched and tickets are now on sale.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the line-up of international guests includes UK author Hilary Mantel (via...
UK print book sales fall by more than £150m in five years Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
In the UK, new Nielsen BookScan figures reveal that sales of print books have fallen by more than £150m (A$278.53m) since 2009, reports the Guardian. An analysis of last year’s figures...
No more ‘nice’ books: Jackie French’s Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
In her 2014 Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture, Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French argues that children are turning away from reading because they are bored by many of the books on offer....
WA state library gathers Indigenous stories through interactive archive project Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
The State Library of Western Australia has gathered 1700 stories about the state’s Indigenous people through its Aboriginal heritage online interactive archive project Storylines, reports Perth Now. Around 2500 photos...
International library news Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
NYC libraries to offer internet hotspotsThe New York Public Library is lending out 10,000 free high-speed internet hotspots valued at US$1000 (A$1223) to some of the city’s poorest residents, reports...
No more ‘nice’ books: Jackie French’s Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
‘Each time I visit schools I ask the teachers to please close their eyes while the children raise their hands when asked, “Hands up, who hates reading?” At least 30...
Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich’s ‘One Step at a Time’ Archive
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
MidnightSun ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance its first picture book. It is an unusual and challenging book to launch its children’s list. It is touching and tragic, but also...
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