TB Clarke, AllBooks4Less to close
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Books wholesaler and remainders dealer TB Clarke and its retail arm AllBooks4Less are now in liquidation after being placed into administration in early July. According to a notice lodged with the...
Mrva-Montoya wins international publishing scholarship to University of St Gallen
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sydney University Press production coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya has won a scholarship to attend the International Publishing Management course at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland in early September. Mrva-Montoya...
Penguin Random House expands into TV
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Penguin Random House is moving into television production to boost the sales of its books, reports the Wall Street Journal. The publisher’s first project is a six-episode cooking show called...
Haigh wins sixth Jack Pollard Literary Award
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the Australian Cricket Society Jack Pollard Literary Award for the sixth time for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh will be presented with the 2012-13...
Collins Werribee to close
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
The Collins bookstore in Werribee, Victoria, will close at the end of September. The store, which is a previous recipient of the Collins Franchise of the Year Award, is located...
Melbourne printer Troedel-Docucopy enters liquidation
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Melbourne printer Troedel-Docucopy has entered liquidation with more than $2.5 million of debt, reports ProPrint. Troedel-Docucopy was liquidated on 27 June, 14 months after the company was created through a...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold rights to Growing Yourself Up (Jenny Brown) in the Netherlands and Belgium; French language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Russ Harris & Bev...
RiP Elmore Leonard
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
US author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. Leonard is the author of 45 novels, many of which were adapted for film and television. His novels adapted for...
Public libraries expenditure up six percent in 2011-2012
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Total expenditure on public libraries in Australia grew by close to six percent in the 2011-2012 financial year, according to the latest statistics from the National and State Libraries of...
Queensland school librarian wins CBCA award
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Queensland librarian Judith Russell has been awarded the Dame Annabelle Rankin Award for services to literature by the Queensland branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Russell, who...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
‘I want to find the next Michelle de Kretser, the next Anna Funder or the next Gail Jones. There are very few companies expanding their publishing lists at the moment...
Clan Destine Press launches three digital imprints
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Genre publisher Clan Destine Press has launched three short-form digital imprints: Crime Shots, Encounters and Clan Destine Fictions. Crime Shots is an imprint for true crime writing, Encounters features erotic stories and Clan Destine...
Breaking bonds: Frances Whiting on ‘Walking on Trampolines’
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Reviewer Jessica Broadbent recommends Frances Whiting’s new novel Walking on Trampolines (October, Macmillan) to readers who are looking for ‘something lovely and comforting to cheer them up in the cold...
Quebec Government considers regulating book prices
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
In Canada, the Quebec Government is considering a plan to regulate book prices in an effort to support smaller bookstores, reports Shelf Awareness. The plan would see all print and...
Tesco to sell branded tablets to supermarket shoppers
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
UK supermarket chain Tesco is preparing to launch its own branded tablet to compete with Amazon and Apple, according to a report in the Times that has not been confirmed by Tesco. The tablet is expected to...
Queensland Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
The titles shortlisted for the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are: Fiction book award The Voyage (Murray Bail, Text) My Hundred Lovers (Susan...
PM’s Literary Awards 2013 winners announced
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 15 August. The winning titles are: Fiction Questions of Travel (Michelle...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2013 winners announced
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Canberra on 16 August, marking the...
In brief
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
NLA selects Tessella’s SDB digital preservation software after successful trial The National Library of Australia (NLA) has confirmed that it will use the Safety Deposit Box (SDB) software from UK-based...
International library news
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Macmillan adds Entangled Publishing ebooks to library lending program In the US, Entangled Publishing will make all of its titles available via Macmillan Publishing’s library ebook-lending program, according to a...
Ruby Romantic Book of the Year 2013 winners announced
Monday, 19 August 2013
The winners of the 2013 Ruby Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Long Romance The Lady Risks All (Stephanie Laurens, Avon...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 19 August 2013
Underbelly: Squizzy (A&U) tells the story of Squizzy Taylor’s quest to become Melbourne’s first celebrity gangster in the 1920s. Based on the television miniseries currently screening on Channel Nine, the...
Commonwealth Book Prize cancelled
Monday, 19 August 2013
Commonwealth Writers has announced that it will no longer offer the Commonwealth Book Prize, and will instead focus its efforts on the Short Story Prize. Commonwealth Foundation communications manager Sarah...
Egmont UK creates ‘little library’ with hotel chain
Monday, 19 August 2013
UK publisher Egmont Press has partnered with hotel chain Jurys Inn to provide books for children who are staying at the hotels, reports the Bookseller. At the Jurys Inn Little...
Dymocks Ellenbrook wins Retail Excellence award at national conference
Monday, 19 August 2013
The Dymocks store in Ellenbrook in Western Australia has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2013 Dymocks national conference, held in Adelaide from 11-13 August. The Dymocks store...
More than 23 million consumer accounts to receive ebook payments in the US
Monday, 19 August 2013
In the US, the owners of more than 23 million consumer accounts have been notified that they are eligible to receive payments from the settlements reached by publishers in their...
QBD to open new stores in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne
Monday, 19 August 2013
Bookselling chain QBD has announced it will open three new bookshops in coming months, bringing the total number of QBD outlets nationwide to 53. The company said in a statement...
Writers Victoria announces winners of Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition, Glenfern Fellowships
Monday, 19 August 2013
Writers Victoria has announced the winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The $1000 prize for creative nonfiction was awarded to Judith Bunn for her memoir ‘Pink’, and...
Waverley Library Award 2013 longlist announced
Friday, 16 August 2013
The longlist for the 2013 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Governor Bligh and the Short Man (Peter Cochrane, Penguin)...
‘Not the Booker’ Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 16 August 2013
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. The shortlisted titles...
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