Waterstones plans to offer ‘read for free’ on Kindles
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Waterstones in the UK plans to offer Kindle users the ability to ‘read for free’ in-store. ‘We hope we will be able to introduce a number of features to Kindle...
futurEDUCATION: Gonski review, digital publishing and ‘gamifying’ education
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Attendees at the Australian Publishers Association (APA) futurEDUCATION symposium earlier this month were told that the Federal Government’s reform of the Australian education system, based on the recent Gonski Review, will...
Gardners unveils new colour ereader in UK
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
In the UK, Gardners Books unveiled a new six-inch colour ebook device called Go Tab. The ereader will be available in October with an RRP of £59 (A$92). It will...
Penguin, Apple ‘putting Amazon on trial’ in US DoJ case
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
In the US, Penguin and Apple have made filings in their case against the Department of Justice (DoJ) regarding alleged price-fixing of ebooks. ‘While the filings are mostly your typical...
Hugo Awards announced
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The 2012 Hugo Awards for science-fiction have been announced. See the full list of winners here. See the shortlist announcement here.
Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster to pay in preliminary ruling in US court case
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
In the US, a settlement has been granted preliminary approval that will involve Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster paying a combined amount of almost $70 million as part of...
Headline UK launches new digital-only imprint for US romance
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Headline in the UK has announced it is launching a new digital imprint called Eternal Romance. The imprint will launch with three paranormal romances by Sylvia Day, reports the Bookseller....
BNZ Literary Awards announced
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Julie Helean has won the $10,000 Katherine Mansfield Award for a short story, judged by Elizabeth Smither. The Prize was announced in Wellington on 18 September alongside three other Bank of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
‘Messy, difficult, contested, fiendishly complicated [and] technically a territory of hell’—the relationship between libraries and ebook publishers, according to Allen & Unwin digital publishing director Elizabeth Weiss quoted in the Sydney...
NLA Fellowships announced
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of the 2013 National Library Fellowships. David Lee is the 2013 Minerals Council of Australia Fellow and Chiaki Ajioka is the 2013...
In Brief
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
ALIA to host ‘Information Online’ conference ‘ALIA Information Online 2013’ will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from Tuesday 12 - Friday 15 February 2013. The conference theme...
International Library News
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Hachette increases ebook prices for libraries According to OverDrive in the US, Hachette will increase backlist ebook prices (over 3500 titles with release dates of April 2010 and earlier) by an...
Paper Plus announces financial results; was in the running to buy Whitcoulls
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The Paper Plus Group, parent company of New Zealand bookselling chain Paper Plus, was in the running to buy the Whitcoulls business from the administrators of REDgroup Retail last year,...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2011 winners announced
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 17 September. Fiona Skyring was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which goes to the most outstanding book...
Campion acquires Wooldridges’ assets, plans retail network expansion
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Education supplier Campion Education has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it has purchased some assets, including stock, from Education Works’ Wooldridges retail business. Campion managing director James Cathro said, however, that...
Random House announces publicity and marketing restructure
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Random House Australia has announced a restructure of its publicity and marketing teams, with four staff members moving into new roles at the start of next year. Random House Australia and...
Movie Pass Giveaway!
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House Australia has sold Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington) to the UK; The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings (Natasha Walker) to Poland and...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
George and Harold go back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten to face a sixth-grade bully in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (Scholastic)....
New publishers sign with Overdrive
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
OverDrive has announced that it has added new titles from local publishers to its ebook platform for libraries and schools. Among the local publishers with new content now available to...
More Queensland government libraries to close
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has received confirmation that two more Queensland Government libraries will be closed and the staff numbers at other government libraries reduced as a result...
Tiffany, Womersley shortlisted for BBC International Short Story Prize
Monday, 17 September 2012
Australian authors Carrie Tiffany and Chris Womersley have been shortlisted for the 2012 BBC Short Story Prize, which was opened up to international entries this year to celebrate the 2012...
On tour: Meet the author Uzodinma Iweala
Friday, 14 September 2012
Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian author born in the US. He visited Australia recently to attend the Melbourne Writers Festival and to promote his latest book Our Kind of People (John Murray). What...
Vann appointed QWC CEO
Thursday, 13 September 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the appointment of Meg Vann as CEO. QWC chair Kevin Gillespie said Vann was ‘very passionate about continuing with and improving upon the...
Colin Roderick Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry...
HarperVoyager to accept unsolicited manuscripts in October
Thursday, 13 September 2012
In a call-out that will span three publishing markets, HarperCollins science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK...
Eymery to join Google Australia
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Google has announced that Agnes Eymery will join the Google Australia team to work on digital partnerships, including ebooks. Eymery currently works for Google in a similar role in London,...
BWF celebrates 50 years
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) ran from 5-9 September, following the presentation of the Queensland Literary Awards. The festival included an ‘all night party’ to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday. This year’s festival was the...
Taskforce recommends new approach to processing low value parcels
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Federal Government’s Low Value Parcel Processing Taskforce has delivered its final report to government, recommending that reform to the current arrangements for processing low value goods from overseas suppliers...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
‘Gone are the days when publishers can think only of that small percentage of people who call themselves “book lovers”; everyone who has a device is a potential customer’—former Picador...
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