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...
Whitcoulls launches new website to find top 50 children’s books
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
Burwood Book Exchange to close in September
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sydney’s Burwood Book Exchange, which first opened in 1986, will close on 8 September. The bookstore, which specialises in secondhand romance titles as well as special orders for new titles,...
Finalists for 2012 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award announced
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award for a published book in the mind, body, spirit genre have been announced, reports Booksellers NZ. The titles in the...
Book adaptations receive investment from Screen Australia
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Screen Australia has approved investment for the second season of ABC television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the adaptation of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books (A&U). The funding was part of a $20 million...
Kenny to lead Hachette Southeast Asia office
Monday, 30 July 2012
Hachette UK has announced that Paul Kenny will oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong in the new role of Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously...
Commonwealth drops case against David Hicks
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has dropped its attempt to seize the profits made from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks' memoir Guantanamo: My Journey (William Heinemann), concluding...
Keep is finalist in Realise Your Dream Award
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep is a finalist in the Realise Your Dream Award, run by the British Council and designed to promote international creative collaboration. The award is given...
Charlotte Wood film adaptation receives funding
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The film adaptation of Charlotte Wood’s novel The Children (A&U) has received $750,000 funding from ScreenWest. The Children was shortlisted in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in 2008. The...
QLA achieves $20,000 pledge goal
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) has achieved its goal of $20,000 from crowd-funded pledges and the amount continues to rise with 27 days left in the campaign. The volunteer-led awards replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, then...
Kobo launches Writing Life platform
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has officially launched its self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life. The platform is accessible to users in Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed here....
Penguin launches Lantern cooking classics series
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Penguin has announced it will launch a series of Lantern classic cookbooks in August ‘in the spirit of the immensely popular Penguin Modern Classics’, says Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs....
