2011 US books sales value down, volumes up
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the US, total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to estimates released Wednesday by BookStats, the annual industry sales survey coordinated by the Association of...
Italian publisher launches DRM-free imprint
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Italian publisher RCS Libri has launched a new digital-first imprint which will publish books free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will release Italian and English...
Bloomsbury acquires visual arts publisher
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the UK, Bloomsbury has completed its purchase of creative publisher Applied Visual Arts Publishing (AVA) for close to £1.7 million (A$2.57 million), reports the Bookseller. AVA, which was established...
Commonwealth drops case against David Hicks
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has dropped its attempt to seize the profits made from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks' memoir Guantanamo: My Journey (William Heinemann), concluding...
Keep is finalist in Realise Your Dream Award
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep is a finalist in the Realise Your Dream Award, run by the British Council and designed to promote international creative collaboration. The award is given...
Allen selected for IFLA International Leaders Programme
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that Margaret Allen has been selected as one of the members of the International Federal of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)...
Christchurch library closes due to earthquake risk
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Christchurch City Council in New Zealand has closed the South Library and Beckenham Service Centre after receiving the results of an engineering evaluation which concluded that the building which...
Vic govt announces funding for new libraries
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Victorian Government has continued to allocate funds to rebuild and renovate the state’s libraries as part of its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, worth $17.2 million over four years. Several...
Sam Twyford-Moore on what to do—and what not to do—for a book launch
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
At the launch of his debut long-form comic Blue in Sydney's Kinokuniya mega bookstore, the cartoonist Pat Grant projected individual panels from his comic with a haunted soundtrack rising from...
Booksellers NZ Industry Awards finalists announced
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The finalists for this year’s Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island) The Children’s...
Booktopia employee to represent Australia in London Games
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Booktopia employee Anthony Alozie will be among approximately 400 athletes representing Australia at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which kick off at the end of this week. Alozie will...
RiP Margaret Mahy
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Margaret Mahy, renowned New Zealand author of books for children and young adults, has died. Mahy won numerous awards including the New Zealand Order of Merit (1993), Arts Foundation Icon Award...
Pinerolo receives CAL funding for illustrator residencies
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Pinerolo, the Children’s book cottage in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, will receive Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) funding for its four residencies for emerging and established illustrators of children’s books. Four...
Morrison teams up with Xou Creative to launch digital publishing business
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Former Picador publisher Rod Morrison has founded a digital publishing business with David Henley and Jon MacDonald from Sydney-based design business Xou Creative. Morrison, who left Picador in 2011, told...
Movie double-pass giveaway!
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Twenty eight-year-old finance golden boy and billionaire Eric Packer takes a long drive across town in a stretch limousine to get a haircut from his favourite barber. En route, in...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Curtis Brown has sold Burial Rites (Hannah Kent) to Picador in Australia, Picador in the UK and Little, Brown in the US; and foreign-language rights to France, Italy, Holland,...
Charlotte Wood film adaptation receives funding
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The film adaptation of Charlotte Wood’s novel The Children (A&U) has received $750,000 funding from ScreenWest. The Children was shortlisted in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in 2008. The...
2012 PM’s Literary Awards winners announced
Monday, 23 July 2012
The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony in Canberra this morning. The winning titles are: Fiction Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U) ...
Interview with Kristy Chambers on ‘Get Well Soon!’ (UQP)
Monday, 23 July 2012
Kristy Chambers’ stories about nursing used to make her friends ‘laugh, cry or throw up over coffee’—so she turned them into a book, Get Well Soon! (UQP, September). Chambers spoke...
2012 PM’s Literary Awards winners announced
Monday, 23 July 2012
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 23 July. The winning titles are: Fiction Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears,...
B&N launches cloud-based reading platform
Monday, 23 July 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has launched a new cloud-based ereading platform called Nook for Web, reports Publishers Weekly. The new platform will allow Barnes & Noble customers to...
MWF 2012 program launched
Friday, 20 July 2012
The program for the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will be held between 23 August and 2 September, has been launched and tickets are now available. More than 400...
‘Zac and Mia’ wins 2012 Text Prize
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Perth writer Amanda Betts has won this year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her manuscript Zac and Mia. Betts was presented with the prize by Text...
Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Anna Funder recently added the Miles Franklin Literary Award to a long list of awards for All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton) and the book has risen in the top 10 bestsellers chart,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
‘It is impossible to know what Amazon’s ebook or Kindle sales are in Australia but Australian publishers willing to talk report them having more than 80 per cent market share’—Readings’...
‘Canberra Times’ cuts literary and arts positions; books pages to be sourced from Melbourne, Sydney
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Canberra Times literary editor Gia Metherell and arts editor Diana Streak are reported to be ‘negotiating their futures’ at the newspaper after learning that their positions have been axed, reports...
QLA achieves $20,000 pledge goal
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) has achieved its goal of $20,000 from crowd-funded pledges and the amount continues to rise with 27 days left in the campaign. The volunteer-led awards replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, then...
Kobo launches Writing Life platform
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has officially launched its self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life. The platform is accessible to users in Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed here....
BBC Worldwide writes down Lonely Planet in response to strong Oz dollar
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
BBC Worldwide has revealed a £16.1 million (approximately A$24.5 million) write down of Lonely Planet in its 2011-2012 annual report. It is the second time the British company has written...
Murphy to leave NZ Book Council
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The New Zealand Book Council has announced that CEO Noel Murphy will finish in his position in October. The council said in a statement that Murphy has decided to leave...
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