ABA Conference round-up
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The 2012 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference was held on 17 and 18 June in Manly, bringing together around 280 members of the industry. More than 140 booksellers from across...
Rogers to launch new business by Christmas
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Former Murdoch Books CEO Juliet Rogers will launch a new business before the end of the year called the Wild Colonial Company. Rogers, who is currently chair of the Indigenous...
Forthcoming events
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Bayside Literary Festival, Melbourne: 21 June to 15 July Children’s & Young Adult Literature Festival, Sydney: 30 June International Conference on the Book, Barcelona,...
Ebooks from Random House now available through ReadCloud
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
ReadCloud has announced that it has signed with Random House, and more than 10,000 Random House ebooks will soon be available through ReadCloud-powered ebookstores. ReadCloud also recently announced that it...
Telstra Business Awards nomination for Booktopia
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Online bookseller Booktopia has been shortlisted for the New South Wales Telstra Business Awards in the medium-sized category for the second year running. Booktopia is one of 24 businesses shortlisted...
NSW state budget announced
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The New South Wales state budget has been announced and includes funding to establish ‘experts and resources in the Office of the Small Business Commissioner that will work with small...
Morin appointed COO at Ingram
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Ingram Content Group has announced that Shawn Morin has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer and will be ‘in charge of managing the company’s commercial activities, systems,...
New writers’ residency in Frankfurt
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
New Zealand authors Hamish Clayton and Tina Makereti will take up new writing residencies offered by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt in September, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Clayton and Makereti...
Barry wins Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Irish author Sebastian Barry has won the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for On Canaan’s Side (Faber). The Walter Scott Prize is worth £25,000 and is presented during...
Google launches ebookstores in Germany, Spain
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Google has launched Google Play stores in Germany and Spain in the past week and is now selling ebooks in both countries, reports Publishers Lunch. The launch of the new ebookstores...
NLA digitises non-English language newspapers
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Several German, Italian and Estonian community newspapers, published in Australia, are now available online through the National Library of Australia’s Trove discovery service. Under the library’s Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program,...
Gascoyne Revitalisation Plan funds new WA library
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The Gascoyne Revitalisation Plan has allocated over $5 million in funding to establish the Carnarvon Library and Arts Centre in Western Australia. The new centre, which received its funding approval...
Sydney council proposes 24-hour library
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Australia’s first 24-hour library is one of the City of Sydney’s ‘priority projects’ as part of its efforts to boost the city’s night-time economy. The council has proposed investigating Circular...
Funding boost for NSW State Library
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The State Library of NSW has received $15.2 million in funding for the next financial year, announced in the NSW State budget on 12 June. Major investments for 2012-2013 include...
‘All That I Am’ wins 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented tonight at a ceremony in Brisbane. All That I Am was selected for...
Changes to ABA management committee announced
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
A number of changes to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) management committee were announced at this year’s annual conference, held in Manly, NSW, between 17 and 18 June. Former director...
‘All That I Am’ wins booksellers choice award
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award. The award, which recognises Australian new-release titles that booksellers...
‘A Monster Calls’ wins 2012 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
UK-based author Patrick Ness has won the Carnegie Medal for outstanding writing in children’s books for the second year running, winning this year’s award for A Monster Calls (Walker Books)....
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The books in the ‘Fifty shades’ trilogy (E L James, Arrow Books) are still at the top of the bestsellers chart this week. The fourth and final book in the...
MWF announces first events for 2012 festival
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced initial details of its adult program for the 2012 festival. British actor, director and author of several biographies Simon Callow will give the...
Booksellers NZ conference keynote speakers announced
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Booksellers New Zealand has announced details of its annual conference. The Business of Bookselling Conference will take place from 1-2 August in Auckland and will include a trade show, conference...
Speech Pathology Book of the Year shortlist announced
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for its Book of the Year awards. The shortlist consists of 43 titles across four categories—‘young children’, ‘lower primary’, ‘upper primary’ and...
PM’s Literary Awards to be announced 23 July
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Simon Crean on Monday 23 July at a ceremony at...
Ashton wins Betty Trask Prize
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Australian author Kalinda Ashton has won a Betty Trask Award, awarded by the UK Society of Authors, for her novel The Danger Game (Sleepers Publishing). Ashton was one of four...
International Digital Publishing Forum approves proposal to include indexes in ePub standard
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) has joined the International Digital Publishing Forum and is part of the Indexes Working Group working to include indexes in the...
‘Overland’ launches new short story prize
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Literary journal Overland has announced a new short story prize worth $6000. The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize will be judged by Enza Gandolfo, Overland editor Jeff Sparrow, deputy...
Nielsen reports book prices down
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Shaun Symonds, general manager of Nielsen BookScan Australia, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday 17 June. Symonds said the average selling price (ASP) of...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House has sold The Hanging Garden (Patrick White) to Slovenia; Dirty Money (Matthew Benns) to Mongolia; and Eat Spray Love (Blossom & Joan Sauers) to India. Nonfiction—UWA Publishing has sold...
RiP Gordon Richardson
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Gordon Richardson OBE, president of the Library Association of Australia from 1967-68 and former principal librarian and principal archivist of the Public Library of NSW, has died aged 94.
New Zealand Frankfurt Guest of Honour program announced
Monday, 18 June 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour program has been announced. As the 2012 Guest of Honour, New Zealand will send more than 60 authors and 100 performers to Germany...
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