Kobo to launch ‘Writing Life’ self-publishing portal this month
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has announced that its self-publishing platform, to be called Kobo Writing Life, will be available in English by the end of this month. Kobo formally...
OzCo releases travel fund stats
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The Australian Council for the Arts has released the results of its Booked travel fund in 2011/2012 based on publishers’ reports. Overall, the fund supported 20 publishers to attend book fairs...
Google Books case to proceed as a class action
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
In the US, judge Denny Chin has rejected Google’s motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational plaintiff and has granted the Author’s Guild motion for class certification, clearing...
QLD literary community concerned over Newman’s National Year of Reading position
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Members of the Queensland literary community have expressed concern after learning that Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is one of the state’s ambassadors for the National Year of Reading 2012. As...
2012 EWF round-up
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The 2012 Emerging Writers’ Festival took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June. Among the entertainment at the opening night event ‘Stories That Matter’, author Fiona McGregor delivered...
2012 EWF ‘most successful ever’
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Festival director Lisa Dempster’s final Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), which took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June, was its ‘most successful ever’. ‘We’ve sold out everything completely,...
2013 IPEd National Editors Conference announced
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Details for the 2013 IPEd National Editors Conference have been announced. The biennial conference will be held in Fremantle, WA, from 10-12 April 2013, and will be organised and hosted...
Christchurch Writers’ Festival returns
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival will return to Christchurch this year after the previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and a scaled-down version in 2011—were abandoned due to...
Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships—applications open
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Applications are now open for the Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships initiative, funded by the Readings Foundation. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the fellowships grant 20 writers access to a...
ACCC approves service agreement between CAL and Viscopy
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved a service agreement between the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and Viscopy Limited, the not-for-profit rights management organisation for the visual arts...
WA author wins Creative Australia Fellowship
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Western Australian author Annabel Smith has been selected as one of the 11 recipients of the 2012 Creative Australia Fellowships, awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts. Smith is...
Booktopia makes NSW people’s choice award shortlist
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Online bookseller Booktopia has been named as one of the NSW finalists for the People’s Choice Award in this year’s Telstra Business Awards. Booktopia is one of five finalists for...
Penguin, Macmillan formally deny DOJ conspiracy charge
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
In the US, Penguin and Macmillan have formally responded to the Department of Justice (DOJ) anti-trust lawsuit, rejecting claims that they conspired with other publishers and Apple to charge higher...
Headline to launch new literary imprint in 2013
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Hachette’s Headline division will launch a new literary imprint called Tinder Press in 2013, reports the Bookseller. The imprint plans to publish between 10 and 12 titles each year, and...
Booksellers welcome classics revival
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Australian booksellers have welcomed the recent wave of publishers releasing branded classics, saying they have made classic books more accessible and attractive to readers, and have provided a new angle...
WBN published Thursday next week
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday next Monday (in all Australian states except WA and QLD), the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 June. The...
RiP Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author and record company owner, has died aged 63. Goldmark ran a business that took touring authors around San Francisco, US. She is the author of several books including a...
Cosmo Fun Fearless Female Awards voting open
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The semi-finalists for Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Female Awards have been announced and voting is now open. The Author category includes: Lili Wilkinson (Love-shy, A&U), Loretta Hill (The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots,...
Scott named Western Australian of the Year
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Author Kim Scott was named the inaugural Western Australian of the Year at a ceremony on 2 June. Scott also received the Indigenous award and was a finalist for the...
‘The Rosie Project’ wins 2012 Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award
Monday, 4 June 2012
A novel about a man with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome who is looking for the perfect partner has won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, announced during...
Readings publishes limited-edition art book
Monday, 4 June 2012
Readings has published Melbourne artist Bruno Leti’s Workbook 15 in a limited edition of 200 copies. The book gives readers an insight into ‘the creative process of an artist’, and...
Reality Bites Literary Festival program announced
Monday, 4 June 2012
The program for the 2012 Reality Bites Literary Festival in Cooroy on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been announced. The festival, which focuses on literary nonfiction, will run from 26-29 July...
New location for the Book Grocer in Kingston, ACT
Monday, 4 June 2012
The Book Grocer in Kingston, ACT has moved a few doors down from its old store to take up bigger premises. The new store is located at Shop 2, 1-11...
Bridgetown Words in the Valley Writers Festival announced
Monday, 4 June 2012
The 2012 Bridgetown Words in the Valley Writers Festival in south-west Western Australia will run from 28-29 July with a focus on ‘crime and intrigue’. Guests at this year’s festival...
Nine roles made redundant at Penguin
Monday, 4 June 2012
Penguin Group Australia has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that a number of staff members have recently been made redundant. Penguin Group Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne told Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher has...
New Dymocks store to open in Wollongong
Friday, 1 June 2012
After seven months without a dedicated new bookstore, Wollongong in NSW will soon see the return of Dymocks to its city centre. Dymocks is set to open a 220 sqm store in August...
Red Room Company releases poetry app
Friday, 1 June 2012
The Red Room Company, a not-for-profit company which publishes new Australian poetry, has released an app called ‘The Disappearing’. The free app allows users to ‘explore’ poems with an interactive...
‘The Song of Achilles’ wins 2012 Orange Prize
Thursday, 31 May 2012
American author Madeline Miller has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury). Miller was presented with the £30,000 (approximately A$48,000) prize at...
OverDrive to launch browser-based ereading platform this year
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Ebook distributor OverDrive has announced that it will launch a new web browser-based ereading platform later this year, based on the HTML5 ereading technology developed by local ebook platform provider...
NZSA Best First Book Awards winners announced
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Hubert Church Best...
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