Borders to reopen in Singapore
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Borders bookstore will reopen in the Singapore suburb of Jurong by the end of the year, reports Yahoo News. Book retailer Popular Holdings recently announced that it had acquired the...
Rowling to donate ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ royalties to charity
Thursday, 1 August 2013
J K Rowling will donate worldwide publishing royalties from The Cuckoo’s Calling (Hachette) to The Soldier’s Charity for a period of three years, reports the Bookseller. Russells, the legal firm...
Parliamentary inquiry recommends removing PIRs, limiting geoblocking; industry responds
Thursday, 1 August 2013
A federal parliamentary inquiry into the prices of electronic products paid by Australian consumers has recommended that Australia’s parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) be removed, and that actions be taken to...
Nielsen launches BookScan in Brazil
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Nielsen BookScan has begun tracking print book sales in Brazil. Nielsen launched its Brazil service earlier this month and expects to measure sales volume of more than 600,000 books valued...
US booksellers express concerns over Obama’s Amazon speech
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
A number of US bookselling associations have written to President Barack Obama ahead of his planned visit to an Amazon warehouse in Tennessee later this week, expressing concerns about the...
Interview: Lisa Dempster, CEO and director of Melbourne Writers Festival
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is fast-approaching (22 August to 1 September). New CEO and director Lisa Dempster spoke to Andrew Wrathall about the program highlights and how MWF is supporting local literary talent. What do you...
Penguin launches True Stories website
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Penguin Australia has launched a new website for ‘immersive reading experiences based on real life Australian stories’, called True Stories. The site launched this week with an ‘online portrait’ of Father Bob...
Inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards finalists announced
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
The finalists for the Federal Government’s inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards have been announced. The finalists in the literature category and the countries they have been nominated for are:...
Tim White on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Reading Christopher Currie’s opinion piece about what booksellers want from publishers, I was moved first to comment and then to respond. Without detracting from anything Chris raised, all of which...
Kobo now selling devices direct in Australia, New Zealand
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Australian and New Zealand consumers can now purchase Kobo ereading devices directly from Kobo.com. The company announced this week that all of its devices, including the recently-launched, high-definition Kobo Aura, are...
Booktopia, Co-op nominated in ‘BRW’ Mid-Market Awards
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Booktopia and The Co-op are among the finalists for Business Review Weekly’s (BRW) inaugural Mid-Market Awards. Booktopia is a finalist in the Best Mid-Market Business (revenue $10 million to $50...
NSLA releases guidelines to help libraries work with Indigenous communities
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
The Indigenous project group of the National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) has released a set of guidelines for libraries working with Indigenous communities. The document titled Working with Community: Guidelines...
Antric appointed executive director of NZ Association of Public Library Managers
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
The Association of Public Library Managers (APLM) in New Zealand has appointed Tim Antric has the association’s new executive director. Antric has previously worked in marketing and digital strategy roles for...
International Library News
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Colorado library opens branch at local Kmart Aurora Public Library in Colorado, US, has opened a satellite branch within the building of a local Kmart store, in a space formerly occupied...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
‘Borders and Angus & Robertson’s sales were 40% Australian published books. Now our biggest bookshop, Amazon, has an infinitesimally small number of Australian books being sold. We have entered a...
Adidem Group acquires full ownership of Affirm Press
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press has been wholly acquired by previous part-owner, the Adidem Group. Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes told Books+Publishing that he sold his share in the business to...
‘The Bookseller’ to publish monthly ebook charts
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
In the UK, the Bookseller will publish monthly ebook rankings with sales figures from major UK publishers from next month. This will be the first time that regular ebook sales...
UK indie publishers look to export markets to boost sales
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
In the UK, some independent publishers are increasingly focussing on export sales to compensate for lower sales in a tougher UK market, reports the Bookseller. Alma Books publisher and managing...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
The titles shortlisted for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Primary Education Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities...
Booku to close this week
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Online bookseller Boomerang Books has again announced that it will close its ebookstore Booku, just over a month after announcing that the store would continue to trade. As previously reported...
Reminder: Last chance to complete the ‘Books+Publishing’ book industry employment survey
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Books+Publishing is conducting research into wages in the book industry for an article in Books+Publishing magazine. If you work in the book industry, we would love to get your input...
Amazon US slashes new release prices
Monday, 29 July 2013
In the US, Amazon began discounting new release print titles by up to 65% over the weekend, reports Shelf Awareness. The discounted titles come from a range of publishers and include...
QLA people’s choice award shortlist announced
Monday, 29 July 2013
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) has announced the shortlist for the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award, worth $5000. The shortlisted books are: Fiction My Hundred Lovers...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 July 2013
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Hachette) by Robert Galbraith, which was revealed to be an alias of J K Rowling, is at the top of the fastest movers chart this week. Following...
Pages & Pages takes over fulfilment for Boomerang Books
Monday, 29 July 2013
Sydney bookstore Pages & Pages Booksellers will supply all print books for online bookseller Boomerang Books as part of a new partnership between the two businesses. Pages & Pages has...
Comparative study of Australian and German publishers underway
Monday, 29 July 2013
Academics from Australia and Germany are currently working on a comparative study of publishing companies operating in the two countries. The German Australian Publishing Project (GAPP), which is estimated to...
Inaugural Editia Prize winner announced
Monday, 29 July 2013
The inaugural Editia Prize has been awarded to Minyma by former social worker and freelance writer Carly Lorente. Lorente will receive a $2500 advance on royalties, with Minyma to be...
Google to launch textbook purchase and rental service
Friday, 26 July 2013
Google is launching a new service in August that allows students to purchase and rent textbooks from the Google Play store to read on Android devices, iOS devices and the...
Warren wins Shirley Jackson Award
Friday, 26 July 2013
Australian author Kaaron Warren has won in the novella category of the Shirley Jackson Awards, presented annually for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark...
BWF 2013 program launched
Friday, 26 July 2013
A ‘Great Debate’ with former politicians and a day dedicated to comics and graphic novels are among the highlights of this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which has launched its full...
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