New keynote speaker at SPUNC conference
Monday, 5 November 2012
The organisers of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference, being held in Melbourne on 8 and 9 November, have announced that Peter Donoughue will replace Thomas Minkus as keynote speaker. US-based...
NLA, SLNSW recognised at Museums Australia awards
Monday, 5 November 2012
The National Library of Australia (NLA) and the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) have won multiple awards in this year’s Museums Australia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards. The...
Scott, Heiss nominated for Australian of the Year Awards
Friday, 2 November 2012
Authors Kim Scott and Anita Heiss are among the state and territory finalists for the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards. Scott is one of four finalists from Western Australia...
‘Business as usual’ at Random House, Penguin following merger announcement; industry responds
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Random House Australia and New Zealand have told booksellers that it will be ‘business as usual’ for Random House and Penguin until the companies’ plans to merge have been approved...
‘Aurealis’ seeks official recognition
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Australian fantasy and science-fiction journal Aurealis has launched a subscriptions drive, which it says will help it obtain official recognition as a professional market by the Science Fiction and Fantasy...
Winterson memoir wins UK indie booksellers prize
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Vintage) has won the 2012 Independent Booksellers’ Book Prize in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The children’s prize went...
Amazon reports third quarter loss
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Amazon has reported a third quarter net loss of US$274 million (approximately A$264 million) on a sales increase of 27%, to US$13.8 billion (approximately A$13.3 billion), reports Publishers Weekly. The...
Penguin US announces indie partnership program
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Penguin US has invited independent booksellers to sign up to a new partnership program, the details of which are being kept confidential, which is designed to ‘increase sales and reduce returns...
Profile Books acquires Tindal Street Press
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
In the UK, Profile Books has acquired independent publisher Tindal Street Press, reports the Bookseller. Tindal Street will become an imprint of Profile Books from 1 November, and will be...
Kobo enters South Africa
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Kobo has launched an ebookstore in South Africa and announced a new partnership with South African retailer Pick n Play. The ebook provider said in a statement on 30 October...
Disruption to Books in Print, TitlePage caused by Hurricane Sandy
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Books in Print, TitlePage and several other data services hosted by Bowker in the US (the parent company of Thorpe-Bowker in Australia) have been disrupted by Hurricane Sandy, which has...
In brief
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Lu Rees Archives on display in Canberra libraries As part of the 2012 Boundless Festival of Australian Children’s Literature, 88 items from the Lu Rees Archives at the University of...
Waverley Library Award 2012 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Waverley Library Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The People Smuggler (Robin de Crespigny, Viking) Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U) Sarah Thornhill (Kate...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
‘I tried for four years to get more money for publishers. At times it was like banging your head against a wall’—Susan Hayes reflects on her time as director of...
NLA pilots Tessella’s SDB digital preservation software
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has commenced a trial of the Safety Deposit Box (SDB) software from UK-based company Tessella as part of its Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement (DLIR)...
Bill to scrap library fees to be heard in NZ Parliament
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
A private members’ bill to scrap borrowing fees in New Zealand public libraries is likely to have its first hearing the New Zealand parliament next month. The Local Government (Public...
International Library News
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Random House clarifies library ebook ownership claim In the US, Random House vice president of library and academic sales Skip Dye has clarified his recent statements about libraries ‘owning’ the...
2013 Adelaide Festival program launched
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The program for the 2013 Adelaide Festival, to be held between 1 and 17 March 2013, has been launched. Next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week will be held between 2 and...
Readings forms event partnership with ‘The Monthly’
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Readings has partnered with The Monthly magazine to host a series of political discussions on modern Australia, called The Monthly Talks. In the first session in August, professor Robert Manne and Greens MP Adam Bandt discussed...
QWC/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program writers announced
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program has announced the nine writers who will attend the program’s retreat this year. The writers are: Florence Bridger, Bill Collopy, Katrina Iffland, Adair Jones, Cathy McLennan,...
Victorian Community History Awards announced
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Art of Being Melbourne by Maree Coote (Melbournestyle Books) has won the $5000 Victorian Community History Award, presented on 23 October at the National Gallery of Victoria. The History Publication...
Hayes to leave Australia Council
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Susan Hayes will retire from her position as director of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in December. Hayes told Bookseller+Publisher that her last day at...
New manager for Better Read Than Dead
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Robert Watkins will join independent Sydney bookstore Better Read Than Dead as store manager and buyer next month. Watkins told Bookseller+Publisher that he finishes in his current role of marketing...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The New York Police Department is on high alert as Hollywood stars and executives arrive in New York for a film festival. A world-famous producer is killed at breakfast and by the...
News Corp interested in Penguin
Monday, 29 October 2012
HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has indicated it is interested in acquiring Penguin, reports the Sunday Times. News Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch is reported to have indicated...
Leading Edge Books NZ to close in December
Monday, 29 October 2012
Leading Edge Books has announced that it will close its New Zealand Books Group at the end of the year. Leading Edge Books general manager Simon Milne said in a...
SWF 2013 School Days program launched
Monday, 29 October 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced some of the authors and illustrators who will participate in its 2013 School Days program, to be held between 20 and 23 May 2013....
Random House, Penguin to merge
Monday, 29 October 2012
Pearson and Bertelsmann have announced that they will merge the Penguin and Random House businesses. Bertelsmann said in a statement on Monday 29 October that the new business will be called...
WBN published Thursday next week
Monday, 29 October 2012
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria next Tuesday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 8 November. The deadline for classifieds and...
Asialink sends authors on a train tour through India
Monday, 29 October 2012
Australian authors Michelle De Kretser, Benjamin Law and Kirsty Murray have joined Indian poet Sudeep Sen, novelist and critic Chandrahas Choudhury and journalist and fiction writer Annie Zaidi on Asialink’s...
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