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New Dymocks store to open in Prahran

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
A new Dymocks store will open in Prahran in Melbourne in October. The new store, which will officially open on 10 October, will be located at 269-271 Chapel Street, which...

No local release date for new Kindle devices

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Amazon unveiled an updated range of Kindle ereading devices on 6 September which includes a new line of Kindle Fire tablets and a new front-lit device called the Kindle Paperwhite....

Readings becomes tour operator

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Readings is expanding its offering to customers beyond books and music, by hosting a tour to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January next year. Readings event coordinator Chris...

New owner for ACP Magazines, ACP Books

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
ACP Magazines, owner of ACP Books, has been acquired by the Bauer Media Group, which purchased the company from private equity-owned Nine Entertainment Co. for $500 million, reports Print21. The...

Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Wheeler Centre has partnered with Zoos Victoria to create the Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships. Estelle Tang, Cate Kennedy, Sally Rippin and Judy Horacek will be writers in residence at...

Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The eighth annual Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Geraldton, Western Australia on 14-16 September. The festival will include workshops, readings, panel discussions, pictures, music, art...

PANZ releases publishing guide

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has released a revised third edition of An Introduction to New Zealand Publishing (published with Whitireia Publishing). The book explains the publishing process...

HarperCollins US comes to new terms with ebook retailers following DOJ settlement

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, HarperCollins has reached new sales terms with e-tailers, following the settlement of its Department of Justice case, which gave the company and other settling publishers Simon &...

PEN International to vote on a declaration of Digital Rights at 78th International Congress

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
More than 300 delegates are due to attend the 78th PEN International Congress in Korea, which opened on 11 September and runs until Saturday 15 September. The Congress will include appearances...

Kobo replaces Google as American Booksellers Association partner

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, the American Booksellers Association has announced it will partner with Kobo to give member booksellers the opportunity to sell ebooks and ereading devices, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Successul US McGraw-Hill ebook pilot program to be expanded

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, a pilot program run at Indiana University will be expanded to more than 25 institutions after McGraw-Hill Education, Internet2 and Courseload announced they have partnered with EDUCAUSE...

US educational publishers settle with distributors over counterfeit textbooks

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the US, Cengage Learning, John Wiley and Sons, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill have settled claims with five distributors involving the sale of counterfeit textbooks, reports Publishers Weekly. The five distributors,...

Pietsch to replace Young at Hachette US

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Hachette Book Group in the US announced that Michael Pietsch will succeed David Young as CEO of the US division, reports Publishers Weekly. Young is stepping down to return to...

UK ereader and tablet ownership predicted to increase by 70% this year

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
In the UK, analyst Richard Broughton of IHS Screen Digest has predicted that the number of tablets and ereaders in the country will jump from an estimated seven million in 2011...

SLQ budget increased amid concerns for QLD government department libraries

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The overall budget for the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has been increased in the state’s 2012-2013 budget, the first budget to be delivered by the Campbell Newman government. A...

eSmart Libraries program to be piloted in WA

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The eSmart Libraries program will be piloted in Western Australian regional libraries, reports the ABC. A spokesperson for the Alannah and Madeline Foundation told Bookseller+Publisher that the program hopes to...

International library news

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Bilbary inserts referral links for ebook sales on US library sites In the US, Bilbary has built a series of links on library websites that take patrons to the Bilbary...

Burkey joins SLV

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the appointment of Anna Burkey as reader development and offsite programs manager. Burkey, who takes up the post this month, joins the...

‘End of an era’ for Dymocks in NZ

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
A spokesperson for Dymocks has confirmed that the bookselling chain is exiting the New Zealand market with the sale of its last New Zealand store in the Auckland suburb of...

Sherwin-Stark appointed Bloomsbury Australia MD

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bloomsbury has announced that Louise Sherwin-Stark has been appointed as managing director of Bloomsbury Sydney. Sherwin-Stark, who is currently ebookstore merchandiser for Google Australia, will begin in the role on...

Caffin returns to BBWF

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Former Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) director Jeni Caffin is returning to head up the festival. Caffin will start in the role at the beginning of November. She will also resume her former role...

Murdoch Books in sale negotiations with A&U

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Murdoch Books owner and chief executive Matt Handbury has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher is in negotiations to sell the business to Allen & Unwin. Handbury said Murdoch Books...

Edwards to retire from Hachette in 2013; Richell appointed deputy MD

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Hachette Australia has announced that CEO Malcolm Edwards will retire at the end of 2013 after almost 20 years with the company. The publisher said in a statement that Edwards...

Man Booker Prize 2012 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng, Myrmidon Books) Swimming Home (Deborah Levy, And...

Farmer to leave HarperCollins; marketing & publicity divisions merged

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Christine Farmer will finish in her role as publicity and communications director for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand later this month, following an amalgamation of the publisher’s publicity and marketing...

Bestsellers this week

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Jim Stynes: My Journey (Jim Stynes & Warwick Green, Michael Joseph), former Melbourne Football Club president Jim Stynes’ memoir, has risen up to second place on the bestsellers chart, just under Fifty...

Indigenous publishers encouraged to apply for Ozco LOTE initiative

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Australia Council has broadened the brief of its Languages Other than English (LOTE) publishing initiative to encourage applications from Indigenous publishers and organisations. The LOTE initiative supports ‘the translation...

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