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...
Rights round-up
Monday, 29 October 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold rights to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to La Campana in Catalan; Skolska Knjiga in Croatia; Otava in Finland; Libri in Hungary; Achuzat Bayit in Israel; Sijthoff...
RiP John Griffin
Monday, 29 October 2012
John Griffin, New Zealand bookseller, publisher and founder of The University Bookshop in Otago, has died aged 88.
Merger talks between Penguin, Random House confirmed
Friday, 26 October 2012
In the UK, Pearson has confirmed that it is discussing ‘a possible combination of Penguin and Random House’ with Bertelsmann. Pearson said in a statement that the two publishers ‘have...
2012 Inky Awards: winners announced
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the 2012 Gold and Silver Inky Awards. The Gold Inky winner (for an Australian book) is...
Hill of Content: A brief history
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Melbourne’s Hill of Content Bookshop recently celebrated its 90th birthday. Manager Andrew Robertson shares the store’s history: Hill of Content Bookshop’s founder, A H Spencer was born in 1886 at...
Phaidon Press sold to Black family
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Phaidon Press has announced it has been acquired ‘from Richard Schlagman by the Leon D Black family’, but has not revealed terms of the acquisition. Schlagman, who acquired the publisher...
Changes to NZ Post Book Awards
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
From 2013, the public will be able to vote for any New Zealand book published within the eligible timeframe for the NZ Post Book Awards people’s choice award. Previously, the...
Pearson acquires EmbanetCompass
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Pearson has announced it has acquired online learning services company EmbanetCompass for US$650 million (approximately A$633 million). In a statement, the publisher said the acquisition built on Pearson’s ‘leading position...
Perseus Books Group exceeds financial goals
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
In the US, CEO of publisher and distributor Perseus Books Group David Steinberger has announced that the company has exceeded its financial goals for the financial year, reports Publishers Weekly....
Man Group to cease sponsorship of Asian Literary Prize
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The Man Group, sponsor of the Man Booker Prize, will not continue its sponsorship of the Asian Literary Prize after this year’s prize is awarded in March next year, reports the...
Seaway acquires Intramar
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Seaway Logistics has announced it will purchase the business and assets of freight forwarder Intramar, which was recently placed under the control of receivers PPB Advisory. Seaway said in a...
HarperCollins to roll out new global publishing software with Publishing Technology
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it will roll out a new global publishing software system in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the next financial year. The new...
Booksellers NZ board appoints new chair
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Mary Sangster of the Children’s Bookshop Christchurch has been elected chair of the board of Booksellers NZ, replacing Hamish Wright of Wright’s Bookshop, who has completed his four-year term as...
Harlequin to launch new contemporary romance imprint
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Harlequin will launch a new contemporary romance imprint in the US next year called Kiss, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint, which Harlequin describes as ‘fun, flirty and sensual romances’, will...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
‘The main reason we wanted to try it was essentially to see what would happen—an experiment’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum in the Sydney Morning Herald, explaining why the Pan Macmillan imprint...
In Brief
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
New Williamstown Library open A new library in Williamstown in Melbourne’s west was officially opened in September. The $8.1 million facility was funded by the Hobsons Bay City Council and...
Kneen’s book banned by Apple iBookstore
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Apple has removed Krissy Kneen’s erotic fiction novel Triptych (Text) from the iBookstore. Kneen told Bookseller+Publisher that Text received an email from iBookstore Publisher Support informing the publisher that the book 'has been ticketed for having...
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