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Bestsellers this week

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Pete Evans’ Family Food (Plum) is this week’s fastest mover, having jumped from sixth to first spot on the top 10 bestsellers chart. The rest of the titles in the top 10 remain...

French named Senior Australian of the Year

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Australian author Jackie French has been named the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year.French was presented with the honour at a ceremony in Canberra on 25 January, where she spoke...

The books: local blockbusters 

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Children’s books and adult fiction were up in volume this Christmas, according to Nielsen BookScan, and these categories also dominated booksellers’ most-mentioned titles in our post-Christmas survey. All categories featured a strong showing of Australian titles.The most-mentioned...

Horin appointed publisher of HGE imprint Chirpy Bird 

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has appointed Niki Horin to the newly created role of publisher of Chirpy Bird, the company’s imprint for licensed and trend-driven publishing.HGE marketing communications executive Sarah Magee told Books+Publishing the...

‘Overland’ launches ‘Fair Australia Prize’

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Overland has launched a new Fair Australia Prize to encourage writers and artists ‘to be part of setting a new agenda for Australia’.The winner of each category—short fiction, essay, poetry, and...

Lahiri wins 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Friday, 23 January 2015
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri has won the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel The Lowland (Bloomsbury). Lahiri’s novel was selected from a shortlist of five to...

Publishers’ perspectives 

Friday, 23 January 2015
Close to 60% of publishers reported that their Christmas sales were ‘better than expected’, and the remainder were ‘close to expectations’. No publisher reported worse-than-expected sales. Over 70% reported that...

Post-Christmas survey: sales up for 50% of booksellers 

Friday, 23 January 2015
Half of booksellers have reported an increase in sales in Christmas 2014 compared to the previous year, according to the results of Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas survey.Books+Publishing received feedback from representatives...

Egmont closes US division

Thursday, 22 January 2015
Egmont Publishing has closed its US division after failing to establish a market-leading position, reports Publishers Weekly. The Danish publisher had put the US division up for sale in October 2014...

European booksellers asked to join #mynextread campaign

Thursday, 22 January 2015
The European International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) is encouraging booksellers and readers to share their reading choices on social media along with the #mynextread hashtag, reports the Bookseller. The campaign’s message is...

Second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll launched

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

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...

New report argues GST exemption should stay 

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Extending the GST to internationally purchased online goods worth less than $1000 is unlikely to improve Australian retailing, according to a report by free-market think-tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA).Citing a...

National Readathon Day to debut in the US

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...

Pearson adds $50m to Affordable Learning Fund 

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
In the US, Pearson will expand the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund by investing an additional US$50m (A$61m) to provide education to low-income learners in emerging markets, said the publisher in...

New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids

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

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

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

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

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...

Quote of the week

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...

 

 

 

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