2013 BILBY Awards winners announced
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories...
Penguin US launches First to Read book discovery platform
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
In the US, Penguin has launched a new book discoverability platform called First to Read, reports Publishers Weekly. The platform allows users to access digital proofs of forthcoming books, months before the...
Lanagan nominated for British Fantasy Awards
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Australian author Margo Lanagan has been nominated for the 2013 British Fantasy Awards. Lanagan is shortlisted in the Best Fantasy Novel category for her book Sea Hearts (A&U), published in...
New ebook DRM aims to stop piracy by changing text
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new digital rights management (DRM) system called SiDiM, which aims to prevent ebook piracy by altering the text of an ebook, reports PaidContent. Using SiDiM,...
APA appoints Michael Gordon-Smith as interim CEO
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the appointment of Michael Gordon-Smith as interim CEO following the resignation of long-time CEO Maree McCaskill last week. Gordon-Smith will begin in the...
‘Questions of Travel’ wins 2013 Miles Franklin
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. De Kretser’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: Floundering (Romy Ash,...
Booktopia shortlisted in Telstra Business Awards
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Online bookseller Booktopia has been named as a finalist in the New South Wales Telstra Business Awards in the medium-sized category for the third year running. Booktopia is one of six...
ABA Conference round-up
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The 2013 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Conference was held at the Hilton Adelaide from 16-17 June. Approximately 260 members of the industry attended the first day of the conference, which included...
Leading Edge Books Conference 2013
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Eighty booksellers from around 50 bookshops attended this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference, which was held at the Hilton Adelaide from 14-16 June. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, LEB shared its...
In brief
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Softlink to launch Scout platform for primary schools Australian library supplier Softlink is preparing to launch Scout, a library management software platform that gives primary schools access to digital resources. Softlink...
New funding for SLNSW in 2013-14 Budget
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) will receive approximately $3 million in new funding as part of the NSW Government’s 2013-14 Budget. A spokesperson for the NSW Government...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
‘I dishonour my craft and I piss on my vocation if give in to my laziness to not write’—author Christos Tsiolkas reflects on his writing during the Australian Booksellers Association...
International Library News
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Library for All gives digital content to schools in developing nations New York charity Library for All will run a pilot for a digital library and education platform for schools...
International Library News
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
PNG library to open, more books needed A library in the formerly war-torn island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea opened on 21 June, but continues to look for support, reports...
SLV Creative Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2013-14 Creative Fellowships. Among the recipients selected for funding are several with book-related projects. Joanne Oliver will work...
Tan Twan Eng wins Walter Scott Prize
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Canongate). His win marks the first...
ABA announces National Bookshop Day promotions
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a number of promotions to support National Bookshop Day on 10 August. The ABA will be running a national competition calling for people...
Pottermore website redesigned
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Pottermore, the website designed for J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, will unveil a new design to broaden its user base and publishing business, reports the Bookseller. The company has also launched an offshoot...
Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 winners announced
Monday, 17 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize have been announced. The winner of the international prize was Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: And Other Poems by Fady Joudah...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 17 June 2013
Entwined with You (Sylvia Day, Penguin), the third novel in the erotic fiction series ‘Crossfire’, is at the top of the bestsellers and the highest new entries charts this week. The author is...
A&U named Publisher of the Year at Leading Edge Conference; Avenue Bookstore, BooksPlus win bookselling awards
Monday, 17 June 2013
Allen & Unwin was named Publisher of the Year at the 2013 Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide on 15 June, the fourth year running that the publisher has received...
MWF, BWF announce festival events
Monday, 17 June 2013
The Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals have announced a number of events ahead of their official program launches. The Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 22 August to 1 September,...
‘The Light between Oceans’ wins booksellers choice award; Shaw, Fay win bookseller awards
Monday, 17 June 2013
The Light between Oceans by M L Stedman (Vintage) has won this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award. The award, which recognises Australian new-release titles that...
PM’s Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Monday, 17 June 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) The Chemistry of Tears...
Booksellers NZ Industry Awards finalists announced
Friday, 14 June 2013
The finalists for this year’s Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island) Paper Plus...
Profit up, sales down for Book Depository following Amazon acquisition
Friday, 14 June 2013
The Book Depository’s pre-tax profit has surged since it was acquired by Amazon in 2011, reports the Bookseller. In its first financial statement released since the acquisition, the Book Depository...
Penguin announces publishing partnership with AFL
Friday, 14 June 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that it will publish a series of books with the Australian Football League (AFL) for ‘supporters of all ages’. The children’s titles, which will be branded...
Rebellion launches children’s imprint
Friday, 14 June 2013
UK publisher Rebellion has launched the children’s imprint Ravenstone at Book Expo America (BEA), along with the imprint’s first book, reports Publishers Weekly. Rebellion is best known for publishing books featuring the...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2013 shortlists announced
Friday, 14 June 2013
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the...
McCaskill resigns from APA
Friday, 14 June 2013
Maree McCaskill has resigned as CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) after more than seven years in the position. Her resignation is effective from 14 June 2013. ‘Under Maree’s...
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