Creative Clunes announces international events
Monday, 24 September 2012
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...
Ryding to leave NSW Writers’ Centre
Monday, 24 September 2012
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that executive director David Ryding is leaving the centre to join the Australia Council for the Arts in the role of program...
HarperVoyager to accept unsolicited manuscripts in October
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
HarperCollins’ science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK and the US for two weeks in October. As...
Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction longlist announced
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. To view the longlisted titles, see the Bookseller+Publisher website here. The winner of this...
National Young Writers Festival program launched
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The program for this year's National Young Writers Festival, part of the This is Not Art (TiNA) festival in Newscastle, has been launched. The program, which is available online here,...
Ashton Wylie award winner announced
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The God Franchise: A Theory of Everything (Alan Dawe, Life Magic Publishing) is the winner of this year’s Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award in New Zealand. The award recognises...
No local release date for new Kindle devices
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Amazon unveiled an updated range of Kindle ereading devices on 6 September which includes a new line of Kindle Fire tablets and a new front-lit device called the Kindle Paperwhite....
Readings becomes tour operator
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Readings is expanding its offering to customers beyond books and music, by hosting a tour to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January next year. Readings event coordinator Chris...
New owner for ACP Magazines, ACP Books
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
ACP Magazines, owner of ACP Books, has been acquired by the Bauer Media Group, which purchased the company from private equity-owned Nine Entertainment Co. for $500 million, reports Print21. The...
Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Wheeler Centre has partnered with Zoos Victoria to create the Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships. Estelle Tang, Cate Kennedy, Sally Rippin and Judy Horacek will be writers in residence at...
Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The eighth annual Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Geraldton, Western Australia on 14-16 September. The festival will include workshops, readings, panel discussions, pictures, music, art...
PANZ releases publishing guide
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has released a revised third edition of An Introduction to New Zealand Publishing (published with Whitireia Publishing). The book explains the publishing process...
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival returns
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival was held in Christchurch from 30 August to 2 September, returning after a four-year wait. The previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and...
Booksellers NZ discontinues Premier Bestsellers program
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Booksellers NZ has announced it has discontinued a program established to label books that achieved a certain level in sales. The Premier Bestsellers program has been discontinued following discussions within...
Filmmakers launch campaign to crowdfund book-to-film adaptation
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The producer and writer of a film to be based on The Second Coming (Andrew Masterson, HarperCollins), have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the film of the...
Wheeler Centre announces new Hot Desk fellows
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Wheeler Centre has welcomed its second round of Hot Desk fellowships. With funding from the Readings Foundation, the fellowships provide a $1000 stipend and workspace in the Wheeler Centre...
New Kobo devices available next month
Monday, 10 September 2012
Three new Kobo devices will be available from Australian and New Zealand retailers starting next month. The new devices—branded the ‘Kobo Family’ along with the Kobo Touch—include the front-lit Kobo...
BWF kicks off
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) kicks off today, following the presentation of the Queensland Literary Awards last night. The festival runs from 5 to 9 September and includes and ‘all...
Indigenous Literacy Day today
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Booksellers, publishers and the book community celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day today. Last year the event contributed to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) raising $550,000. The ILF hopes to achieve $600,000...
Allara leaves Dymocks
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Michael Allara has finished in his role as general manager of ecommerce for Dymocks. Allara left the company in August to pursue other opportunities and Robert Kaldor is now overseeing...
Write Around the Murray Festival kicks off this week
Monday, 3 September 2012
This year’s Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury, in regional NSW, will be held between 5 and 9 September. Among the guests at this year’s festival are Andrew Croome,...
New readers’ festival for Canberra
Monday, 3 September 2012
The inaugural Canberra Readers’ Festival will be held on 22 September. The festival is being organised by Libraries ACT and is supported by the Canberra Theatre Centre, which will host...
ACCC releases draft guide for resolving bulk mail disputes
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a draft guide for how the ACCC would inquire into pricing disputes between Australia Post and bulk mail users such as...
Pearson and Penguin to move in September
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Pearson and Penguin will move to their new premises at 707 Collins Street, Melbourne in Melbourne's Docklands precinct on 17 September. Pearson Australia currently has offices in Port Melbourne, in...
Penguin ebooks available through Booki.sh
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Ebooks from Penguin Australia are now available through ebook platform Booki.sh, which is now owned by US-based ebook distributor OverDrive. A spokesperson for Penguin confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher’s...
Rubinstein wins 2012 Calibre Prize
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited has announced that Matt Rubinstein has won first place in the 2012 Calibre Prize for his essay ‘Body and Soul:...
Mary Martin Bookshop Norwood closes
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
The Mary Martin Bookshop in Norwood, South Australia, closed on 4 August. Owners Sarita and Justin Chadwick opened the store and cafe, which were located in a heritage-listed church, at...
Bookworld launches with new loyalty program
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The Borders Australia online business has been rebranded and the new Bookworld website is now live. Among the features of the new site is a new ‘citizenship’ membership program, which...
Embiggen wins best fitout award
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Embiggen Books, located in the QV building opposite the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, has won the QV’s annual retail award for best fitout. In presenting the award, QV...
Your Bookshop chain opens fourth store
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The chain of independent bookshops Your Bookshop has opened a fourth store. The new store, which opened in July, is located in Top Ryde in New South Wales. The first...
