Local authors among academy members for new £40,000 Folio Prize
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Local authors including Peter Carey, J M Coetzee and Anna Funder are among more than 110 members of an academy that will select the winner of the inaugural Folio Prize...
IPA endorses EPUB 3 as global publishing standard
Thursday, 14 March 2013
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has endorsed EPUB 3 as the ‘preferred standard format for representing HTML and other web content for distribution as single-file publications’, the IPA said in a...
Apple files patent to create marketplace for used digital goods
Thursday, 14 March 2013
In the US, Apple has filed a patent application to create a marketplace for used digital content items, reports paidContent. Apple’s proposed patent would allow one user to transfer access to...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 14 March 2013
‘70% interesting content relevant to our followers, 20% interaction with others and 10% self-promotion’—Alaina Gougoulis explains the maths behind Text Publishing’s approach to social media in an article on the...
‘Cheap Eats’ and ‘Everyday Eats’ guides rebranded
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Fairfax’s annual guides to low-cost dining, The Age Cheap Eats and Sydney Everyday Eats, have been rebranded as ‘Good Food Under $30’. The Age Good Food Under $30 and The...
RiP James Strong
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Businessman and arts patron James Strong has died in Sydney, aged 68. Strong was the chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts (OzCo) from 2006-2012. He also served as...
International Library News
Thursday, 14 March 2013
US National Archives to help with national digital library project In the US, the National Archives will help launch a pilot project to create a national digital library. The...
Melbourne Literary Salon launched
Thursday, 14 March 2013
The Melbourne Literary Salon, an informal monthly gathering for ‘all who work with books and stories’, will hold its first event on Tuesday 26 March. Organised by Anna Burkey, reader development...
2013 Carnegie, Greenaway shortlists announced
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK, have been announced. Eight books have been...
UK booksellers offer exclusive content in bid to compete with Amazon
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
UK booksellers Waterstones and Foyles are offering books with extra chapters and exclusive bonus material in a bid to lure book buyers away from online retailers such as Amazon, reports...
ASA announces 2012-13 mentorship recipients
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 mentorships for unpublished authors and illustrators. Twelve applicants have been selected for this year’s program and will...
Pages & Pages swaps Cumulus for BeBook Touch
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Pages & Pages Booksellers in Sydney has started selling a new ereading device this week. The BeBook Touch is a dedicated ereader with an eInk screen and wifi access, and is...
2013 PANZ Book Design Awards to include cookbook category
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its 2013 Book Design Awards will include a new award for cookbooks, which will be sponsored by 1010 Printing. PANZ has also...
Random House changes author contracts for digital imprints after criticism
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
In the US, Random House has made changes to its author contracts for new digital imprints following criticism from author groups, reports Publishers Weekly. The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA),...
Stedman, Tiffany, Perkins longlisted for 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Australian authors M L Stedman and Carrie Tiffany and New Zealand author Emily Perkins have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. The longlist for...
Walker Books celebrates 20 years of children’s publishing with picture-book campaign
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Walker Books Australia is celebrating 20 years of publishing books for children in 2013. The publisher said in a statement that it is celebrating the anniversary by launching the campaign ‘We Believe in...
PMP cuts 180 jobs in cost-cutting plan
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
PMP, the parent company of book printer Griffin Press, cut 180 full-time Australian jobs in the first half of the 2013 financial year as part of a cost-cutting ‘transformation plan’, reports...
Upper Murray Regional Library to close in June
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Upper Murray Regional Library (UMRL), a cross-border organisation that provides library services in north east Victoria and southern New South Wales, will close at the end of June. UMRL...
Council endorses plans for new Rockdale library
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Rockdale City Council in New South Wales will proceed with plans to build a new $16 million library, reports the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. After deferring voting...
In brief
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Bendigo Regional Archives Centre wins IPAA Award The winners of the Institute for Public Administration Australia’s 2012 Awards for Excellence have been announced, with the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre recognised...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Baker and loner Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, an old man much loved by the community. One day Josef asks Sage for a favour—to kill him. Sage is shocked and refuses, but then she...
HMH, Hachette announce international partnership
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has entered into a new distribution partnership with Hachette in several international markets, reports Publishers Weekly. The partnership includes Latin America, South America, Asia and Europe, but...
Bloomsbury, Constable & Robinson, Nosy Crow double-winners at IPG Awards
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
In the UK, the winners of the 2013 Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Independent Publishing Awards have been announced, with Bloomsbury taking out the overall award. Bloomsbury Publishing’s academic and professional division...
Authors, publishers oppose Amazon’s bid to control .book domain
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
In the US, the Authors Guild and the American Publishers Association have objected to Amazon’s bid to administer a number of ‘generic’ top-level internet domains, including .book, reports CNet. The organisations...
Australian Festival of Travel Writing program announced
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
The program for this year’s Australian Festival of Travel Writing, to be held in Melbourne from 22-24 March, has been announced. This year’s festival will kick off on Friday 22...
NZ Copyright Tribunal to investigate licensing dispute over university course materials
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has referred its dispute over licensing fees for university course materials to the Copyright Tribunal. CLNZ said in a statement that ‘a refusal by the...
Australian, NZ publishers nominated for inaugural Bologna Prize for children’s publishing
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Allen & Unwin, Koala Books, The Five Mile Press and Gecko Press have been nominated in the Oceania category of the inaugural Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of...
ACCC ‘not opposed’ to Penguin Random House merger
Sunday, 10 March 2013
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it is ‘not opposed’ to the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the ACCC...
Treloar wins Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award
Friday, 8 March 2013
Lucy Treloar has won this year’s Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for her manuscript The Things We Tell Ourselves. Treloar’s manuscript was selected from a shortlist of three for the...
UK publisher and politician hits out at WH Smith, Waterstones and Amazon
Friday, 8 March 2013
UK publisher and Conservative Party politician Iain Dale has used a speech at the Independent Publishers Guild conference to hit out at large booksellers such as WH Smith, Waterstones and...
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