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...
OPUS reports $1.8 million loss, but McPherson’s ‘merger benefits tracking ahead of plan’
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
OPUS group, which acquired McPherson Printing Group earlier this year, has announced a $1.8 million loss after tax for the financial year ended 30 June 2012. However, this was up...
Courtenay announces he is terminally ill, next book to be his last
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bestselling author Bryce Courtenay has announced that he has been diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay said on his Facebook page that he is ‘expected to have only some months...
Booktopia revenue up 46.5%
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Booktopia had achieved revenues of $20.8 million, excluding GST, for the 2011/12 year, up 46.5% from $14.2 million in 2010/11, according to CEO Tony Nash. Nash told Bookseller+Publisher this growth...
RiP Nina Bawden
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
British author Nina Bawden, best known for the children’s novel Carrie’s War, has died aged 87. Bawden wrote more than 40 novels for adults and children including Eyes of Green...
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival returns
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival was held in Christchurch from 30 August to 2 September, returning after a four-year wait. The previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and...
Booksellers NZ discontinues Premier Bestsellers program
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Booksellers NZ has announced it has discontinued a program established to label books that achieved a certain level in sales. The Premier Bestsellers program has been discontinued following discussions within...
Filmmakers launch campaign to crowdfund book-to-film adaptation
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The producer and writer of a film to be based on The Second Coming (Andrew Masterson, HarperCollins), have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the film of the...
Wheeler Centre announces new Hot Desk fellows
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Wheeler Centre has welcomed its second round of Hot Desk fellowships. With funding from the Readings Foundation, the fellowships provide a $1000 stipend and workspace in the Wheeler Centre...
In Brief
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Free ‘Little Library’ at Melbourne Central The operators of Melbourne Central shopping centre have established a free ‘Little Library’ on the second level of the centre, reports the Age. The...
New owners for Dymocks Newmarket
Monday, 10 September 2012
The Dymocks store in Newmarket, New Zealand, has been sold to new owners, reports Beattie’s Book Blog. According to Publishers Association of New Zealand president Kevin Chapman, publishers were informed...
Education Works to be liquidated; Campion acquires Wooldridges
Monday, 10 September 2012
School bookseller Education Works will be liquidated, following a second meeting of the company’s creditors at the end of August. However, three of the nine businesses in the Education Works...
New Kobo devices available next month
Monday, 10 September 2012
Three new Kobo devices will be available from Australian and New Zealand retailers starting next month. The new devices—branded the ‘Kobo Family’ along with the Kobo Touch—include the front-lit Kobo...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012 winners announced
Friday, 7 September 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September. At the awards ceremony held at Fed Square’s BMW Edge,...
New Kobo devices available in October
Friday, 7 September 2012
Kobo has unveiled three new ereading devices which will be available in Australia and New Zealand before the end of the year. The new devices—branded the ‘Kobo Family’ along with...
HarperCollins launches digital-native first
Friday, 7 September 2012
HarperCollins has launched its first Australian-authored digital-native enhanced ebook—a title conceived as a digital product and created using Apple’s free iBooks Author software—which is unlikely ever to appear in printed...
No local release date for new Kindle devices
Friday, 7 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....
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