Filmmakers launch campaign to crowdfund book-to-film adaptation Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
Whitcoulls launches new website to find top 50 children’s books Archive
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls has launched a new website as part of this year’s Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 campaign. New Zealand readers have until 2 September to vote for...
Work underway to ‘modernise’ PLR, ELR schemes Archive
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
The Federal Government has announced that is has ‘started working on modernising’ the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and the Education Lending Rights (ELR) schemes. The Department of Arts is currently...
Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival kicks off this month Archive
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
This year’s Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival in Melbourne’s west will run between 31 August and 9 September. The festival will open on Friday 31 August with a 1920s-themed gala with...
‘The Big Issue’ announces fiction edition line-up Archive
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
The Big Issue has announced the full line-up of authors whose stories will appear in its annual fiction edition. Stories by David Cohen, Andy Murdoch, Alex Skovron, Jude Bridge, Rafael...
Hannett nominated for a World Fantasy Award Archive
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Australian author Lisa L Hannett has been nominated in the ‘best collection’ category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards for her debut collection Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga). The winners will be...
Penguin to launch children’s classics list Archive
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
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...
Writing Australia regional residencies announced Archive
Monday, 13 August 2012
Writing Australia has announced the first recipients of its regional residency program, Writing Australia Places. Melanie Joosten from Victoria will spend four weeks in Orange, NSW, working on a novel...
New Sydney literary magazine launched Archive
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A biannual magazine of international writing has been launched in Sydney. Contrappasso, which means ‘counter-step’ or ‘counter-blow’ in Italian, contains fiction, nonfiction, interviews and poetry, and is being published as...
Steele and Noble awarded Life Membership of Editors Victoria Archive
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Liz Steele and Rosemary Noble, who currently serve as co-presidents of Editors Victoria, have been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Editors Victoria for services to the editing profession. Steele recently completed...
Random House sponsors National Seniors Literary Prize Archive
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House Australia is sponsoring the 2012 National Seniors Literary Prize, presented by National Seniors Australia. The prize is in its second year, and is open to works of fiction written...
Four new Katherine Mansfield stories discovered Archive
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Four previously unknown stories by Katherine Mansfield have been discovered in the archives of King’s College, London, by PhD student Chris Mourant. Gerri Kimber, senior lecturer at the University of...
New Holland to publish ‘MasterChef’ book Archive
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House, which has published the winners’ cookbooks from the first three series of the cooking reality television program MasterChef, will not be publishing the book by this year’s winner....
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2012 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
The winners of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards for 2012 were announced in Wellington, New Zealand, on 6 July. See Library News...
Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival to be held this month Archive
Monday, 6 August 2012
This year’s Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival will be held between 25 and 28 August. Among the authors participating in the event are Anna Funder, Tim Bonyhady, Ita Buttrose, Elliot Perlman,...
