2012 Ngaio Marsh Award longlist announced
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Collecting Cooper (Paul Cleave, S&S) Luther: The Calling (Neil Cross,...
NZ Dymocks stores rebrand as independents
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Dymocks stores in Queensgate and Mt Eden in New Zealand have ended their franchise agreements and are now trading as independent booksellers under the names United Booksellers and Black Sheep...
Kelly, Fritchley promoted at HarperCollins
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced two promotions in its senior management team following James Kellow’s move from commercial director to CEO. The publisher said in a statement that Darren Kelly has...
Google reaches deal with French publishers
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
In France, Google has reached an agreement with publishers and authors over the scanning of French works, which the internet giant hopes with ‘help jump-start’ the French ebook market, reports...
Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
A South American crime lord, arrested by Detective Michael Bennett, vows to unleash epic violence on New York City from behind bars. Detective Bennett tries to save his family from...
NZ author wins 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
New Zealand author Emma Martin has won this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘Two Girls in a Boat’. Martin’s story, which won the Pacific region for this...
Eltham to join BWF
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that Kate Eltham will join the festival as director in October. Eltham, who is currently CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC), replaces...
Authors among those named in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Australian authors and members of the publishing industry were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has been made a Companion in the...
2012 Inky Awards longlists announced
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The longlists for the 2012 Inky Awards for young adult literature, run by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria, have been announced. The Gold Inky...
RiP Ray Bradbury
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Ray Bradbury, US author and recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, has died aged 91. Bradbury wrote hundreds of short stories and nearly 50 books including Fahrenheit...
RiP Carolyn Pike
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Penny Martin, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, on behalf of Caroline Hunter, Sybil Kesteven and Karen Enkelaar, writes: ‘The publishing community in Australia is saddened by the untimely death of Carolyn...
Interview with Melanie Barton on Molly Ringwald
Friday, 8 June 2012
In August, Simon & Schuster Australia will publish actress Molly Ringwald’s book When It Happens to You—a collection of interlinked stories that explores the effects of betrayal on a family....
On tour: Meet the author Liz Moore
Friday, 8 June 2012
Liz Moore is touring Australia in July. Her latest book is Heft (Random House), the story of two improbable heroes: a former academic who weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left...
Interview with Zane Lovitt on ‘The Midnight Promise’
Friday, 8 June 2012
‘The Midnight Promise crashes straight into Temple, Corris and Chandler territory,’ writes reviewer Catherine Schulz. She spoke to author Zane Lovitt. The Midnight Promise was plucked from the slushpile by...
2012 NZ Post Book Awards shortlists announced
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The shortlists for this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction From under the Overcoat (Sue Orr, Vintage) Rangatira (Paula Morris, Penguin) The...
Queensland Memory Awards announced
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Three awards designed to recognise the work of historians in increasing knowledge of Queensland history have been announced at the State Library of Queensland during Queensland Week (2-11 June). The...
Sir Julius Vogel Awards announced
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Award were announced at unCONventional, the 33rd National Science Fiction Convention in Auckland, during New Zealand’s Queens Birthday weekend on 1-4 June. Winners...
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
‘I hope that with the growth of ebooks we start to see a renaissance in physical book publishing but before that can happen I think we all need to do...
ABA launches conference app; Valentine to replace Szubanski as gala dinner MC
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has developed an app for its 2012 conference, which contains the conference program, exhibitor list, speakers’ biographies, maps, alerts and more. To access the app, users...
Bowker US publishing report
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Bowker has released its annual report on US print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books in Print database. Based on figures from US publishers, Bowker reports that traditional print book...
Forthcoming events
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Continuum 8: Craftonomicon: 51st Australian National Science Fictional Convention, Melbourne: 8-11 June if:book Australia: The 24-hour Book (Australia wide): 11-12 June Noosa Longweekend Festival,...
DigitalNZ Mix and Mash
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Instead of running its annual mash-up competition, this year ‘Mix and Mash’, a site run by DigitalNZ, will help organisations and communities in New Zealand run their own open data and...
NSLA launches ‘Re-imagining Libraries 2012-2016’
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
National and State Libraries Australasia, the umbrella body for the major libraries in the region, has released its new four-year strategic plan. The plan extends the program of work begun in...
Refurbished library reopens in Rockhampton
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
A refurbished library was reopened at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University (CQU) on 6 June by Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research. This...
ALIA to investigate options for publishing scholarly journal
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has advised subscribers to its scholarly journal, the Australian Library Journal, that their 2012/2013 ALIA membership year renewals will include a journal subscription fee...
In Brief
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
NLA hosts ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’ On 17 June the National Library of Australia will host a special event called ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’, which features soprano Greta Bradman and...
Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
In 2006 the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet (Manny Noakes & Peter Clifton, Penguin) pushed ahead of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code (Transworld) on the bestseller charts and caused media controversy,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Scribe has sold Greek rights for Pieces of Mind (Michael Corballis) to Aiora Press; and Czech rights for Future Files (Richard Watson) to Computer Press. Film/Audio—Scribe has sold film...
Vietnam War memoir shortlisted for Saroyan Prize
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Australian author Quynh Dao’s book Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir (Odyssey Books) is one of the 12 shortlisted titles in the nonfiction category for the 2012 William...
R&R publications enters liquidation
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Specialty Australian publisher R&R Publications has entered voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. Distributor Alpa Books, which previously represented the publisher, said in a statement last week that eligible returns...
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