Penguin to take ‘popular writing’ seminar to Sydney
Friday, 24 May 2013
Penguin has announced that it will take its School of Popular Writing, a one-day seminar for aspiring writers of commercial fiction, to Sydney. The seminar, which will be held on Saturday...
Chong wins Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award
Friday, 24 May 2013
Text Publishing designer Chong Weng Ho has been awarded the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award at the 2013 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards, which were announced in Sydney...
Clarke wins 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for unpublished manuscript
Friday, 24 May 2013
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Clarke was announced as the winner of the $15,000 prize, which is administered by the Wheeler Centre...
The Reading Room announces print book sales
Friday, 24 May 2013
The Reading Room, a book-focussed social media website, will begin selling print books online in June, following its introduction of ebook sales earlier this year, reports Digital Book World. The...
On tour: Meet the author Dermot Healy
Friday, 24 May 2013
Irish novelist, memoirist, poet and short-story writer Dermot Healy is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest novel Long Time, No See (Faber & Faber) was nominated for the International...
On tour: Meet the author Anita Desai
Friday, 24 May 2013
Indian novelist and professor Anita Desai is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Desai is the author of short-story collections and novels for adults and children, three...
‘The Arrival’ named an honour book in IBBY Silent Books project
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (Lothian) has been selected as one of 10 honour books in Silent Books, a travelling exhibition run by the International Board of Books for Young People...
Susanne Gervay’s ‘I Am Jack’ to be adapted to film
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Screen Australia has announced script development funding for a film adaptation of Susanne Gervay’s book I Am Jack (HarperCollins). Gervay will write the film script for I Am Jack, with director Nadia Tass, producer Stephan Wellink...
Penguin to avoid trial after settling ebook pricing cases with states and consumers
Thursday, 23 May 2013
In the US, Penguin will not participate as a defendant in the Department of Justice’s long-awaited ebook pricing trial after reaching a settlement in the ebook pricing case with US...
Lydia Davis wins 2013 Man Booker International Prize
Thursday, 23 May 2013
US author Lydia Davis has won the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Announcing Davis as the fifth winner of the Man Booker International Prize, the committee praised Davis’ ‘inventive, carefully-crafted...
Amazon launches Kindle Worlds for fanfiction publishing
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Amazon has launched a publishing model called Kindle World, which allows authors to write fanfiction stories inspired by book series via a licensing partnership with Warner Bros, said Amazon in a statement. Warner Bros....
Express Media announces book publishing initiative for young writers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Express Media will publish two novella-length books by Australian writers under 30 as part of a new initiative called Hologram. The Hologram books will be published in early 2014 and...
Hayes joins Copia as merchandising and marketing manager
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Antonia Hayes has joined ebook provider Copia in the role of Australian merchandising and marketing manager. Hayes, who started in the role this month, is responsible for Copia’s local merchandising,...
Barefoot Books withdraws books with Amazon
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
In the US, independent children’s publisher Barefoot Books has announced it will no longer sell books through Amazon, reports Digital Book World. The publisher said in a statement that it...
Waterstones to restructure bookshop management positions
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is restructuring its bookshop management positions to put more emphasis on shop-floor bookselling, reports the Bookseller. Managing director James Daunt has sent an email informing staff...
SWF kicks off
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival was officially launched last night. The opening address was delivered by oral storyteller Daniel Morden, who embodies this year’s festival theme of storytelling, and entertained the...
Catherine Schulz on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
‘As an unintended consequence of changes in consumer buying habits, people are not paying taxes on things that they have done for years’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker calls for...
Masson re-elected as chair, Day as treasurer of ASA board
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Sophie Masson has been re-elected as chair and David Day as treasurer of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board. Masson, Irina Dunn, Helen O’Neill, Chris Pash, Mark Carthew, Robyn Sheahan-Bright...
Brockhoff joins Harlequin
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Harlequin Australia has announced that Sue Brockhoff has joined the publisher in the role of publishing and communications manager. Brockhoff, who was previously head of fiction at HarperCollins, started in...
White appointed head of international at HarperCollins; Catherine Milne to acquire lit fiction for Fourth Estate
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Michael White to the newly created position of head of international publishing. HarperCollins Australia marketing and communications director Simon Milne told Books+Publishing that White’s role covers fiction...
RiP Kevin Jones
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Kevin Jones, former manager of Publishers Distribution Limited (PDL), has died aged 65. Jones worked as manager of PDL, an Auckland-based distribution company, from March 2003 to May 2012.
New items added to Australian Memory of the World register
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Collections from the National Library of Australia and state and territory libraries in Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia are among 11 new items to be...
Australia’s Favourite Librarians announced
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Love2Read campaign have announced the winners of the Australia’s Favourite Librarian competition. The overall winner is Jae Rolt, a teacher-librarian from...
Australian libraries participate in Big Library Read project
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
A number of Australian libraries are participating in the Big Library Read project, a two-week ebook data experiment run by OverDrive and Sourcebooks. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the project...
In brief
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
ProQuest completes EBL acquisition ProQuest has announced the completion of its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL) from the Ebook Corporation. The EBL platform offers approximately 300,000 ebooks from more than 500 publishers to...
Nash nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year award
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Booktopia CEO and founder Tony Nash has been nominated for the 2013 Australian Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Nash, who founded Booktopia in 2004, is one of...
Scribe to launch new media series
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will launch a new series of nonfiction books about contemporary media trends later this year. The ‘Media Chronicles’ series will launch with The New Front Page: New...
Bowker launches SelfPublishedAuthor.com
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
In the US, Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has launched SelfPublishedAuthor.com, a website designed to help authors self-publish their work. The website, which says its aim is to ‘guide independent authors...
Sanders, Flowers shortlisted for AOI Illustration Awards
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Australian illustrators Ben Sanders and Tony Flowers have been shortlisted in the children’s book category of the UK-based Association of Illustrators (AOI) Illustration Awards. Sanders has been shortlisted for his book...
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