2012 Deadly Awards finalists announced
Thursday, 9 August 2012
The finalists for this year’s Deadly Awards, presented to Indigenous Australians for excellence in the areas of music, sport, entertainment and community, have been announced. The finalists for the Outstanding Achievement...
2012 Davitt Awards shortlists announced
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories...
Experimenting with workflow: an extract from Jane Morrow’s Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Editor Jane Morrow travelled to New York and San Francisco earlier this year as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship, where she researched digital developments in US publishing, in...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
‘One of the only commonalities among the people I met who work specifically on digital projects is that, five years ago, they couldn’t have imagined what they are doing now....
Morrow releases Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Former Penguin editor Jane Morrow has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into digital developments in US publishing, following placements with Penguin in New York, Chronicle Books in San...
New Sydney literary magazine launched
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A biannual magazine of international writing has been launched in Sydney. Contrappasso, which means ‘counter-step’ or ‘counter-blow’ in Italian, contains fiction, nonfiction, interviews and poetry, and is being published as...
Steele and Noble awarded Life Membership of Editors Victoria
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Liz Steele and Rosemary Noble, who currently serve as co-presidents of Editors Victoria, have been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Editors Victoria for services to the editing profession. Steele recently completed...
HarperCollins combines Zondervan, Thomas Nelson
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
HarperCollins is now the largest Christian publisher in the US, after combining its newly acquired Thomas Nelson business with its Zondervan division in a new Christian publishing division, reports Digital...
Spain increases VAT on ebooks
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced an increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate that affects ebooks last month as part of the country’s austerity measures, reports Publishing Perspectives....
ABA, B&N brief accepted in DOJ case
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
In the US, federal judge Denise Cote has granted a motion by the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Barnes & Noble to file a ‘friend of the court’ brief as...
Oz, NZ authors nominated for ‘Not the Booker’ Prize
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize, run by the Guardian in the UK. The prize has the same criteria as the...
Bookstores get ready for National Bookshop Day
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
The second annual National Bookshop Day will be held on Saturday 11 August 2012, with many booksellers around Australia staging events on the day. Details of events are being announced on the National...
On the epidemic of niceness in online book culture
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
In an article at Slate, US writer Jacob Silverman argues that today’s online book culture has become a ‘mutual admiration society’ which discourages criticism and dissent. The writer Emma Straub...
Random House sponsors National Seniors Literary Prize
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House Australia is sponsoring the 2012 National Seniors Literary Prize, presented by National Seniors Australia. The prize is in its second year, and is open to works of fiction written...
Four new Katherine Mansfield stories discovered
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Four previously unknown stories by Katherine Mansfield have been discovered in the archives of King’s College, London, by PhD student Chris Mourant. Gerri Kimber, senior lecturer at the University of...
New Holland to publish ‘MasterChef’ book
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House, which has published the winners’ cookbooks from the first three series of the cooking reality television program MasterChef, will not be publishing the book by this year’s winner....
LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2012 winners announced
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
The winners of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards for 2012 were announced in Wellington, New Zealand, on 6 July. See Library News...
‘San Francisco Chronicle’ launches ebooks-only section
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
The books section of the San Francisco Chronicle in the US is launching a monthly column devoted to ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘The E-Reader’ column will not cover any titles...
New Avenue Bookstore to open in Elsternwick
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Independent Melbourne bookseller Avenue Bookstore will open a new store in Elsternwick in October, following the purchase of independent bookstore Sunflower Bookshop. Sunflower Bookshop, located at 434 Glenhuntly Road in...
Webber appointed CEO of Bookworld
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
James Webber, former ecommerce and digital manager at REDgroup Retail, has been appointed CEO of Bookworld, the division of Pearson Australia which operates the Angus & Robertson (A&R) and the...
Nielsen stats show NZ sales down in volume and value for the year to date
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
In a presentation at the Booksellers NZ annual conference, managing director Asia Pacific for Nielsen BookScan Ka Meechan reported that BookScan figures showed book sales for the first 28 weeks...
Collins Shepparton named ‘Franchise of the Year’ at national conference
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Collins Booksellers Shepparton in regional Victoria was named Franchise of the Year at this year’s Collins Booksellers national conference, held between 5 and 7 August in Byron Bay. Franchisees Joe...
RiP Claire Kearney
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Claire Kearney, long-time Melbourne bookseller, has died aged 79. Paul Donovan, Allen & Unwin, writes: ‘Claire Kearney, for so long the doyen of The Hill of Content Bookshop at 86...
Vale Maeve Binchy
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish author who sold more than 40 million books worldwide and received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards in 2000, has died aged 72....
RiP Gore Vidal
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Gore Vidal, US author who wrote 25 novels, including historical works such as Lincoln and Burr, has died aged 86. Vidal's essays on politics, sexuality, religion and literature earned him...
RiP Robert Hughes
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Robert Hughes, Australian-born author and art critic, has died in New York aged 74. Hughes’ works include The Fatal Shore, a study of the settlement of Australia; Things I Didn't Know, a...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Hal Spacejock and Hal Spacejock: Second Course (Simon Haynes); and Romanian rights in Edge of the World (Marcella Polain). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Chinese-simplified translation...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
A rare strain of magic is spreading across the land, ‘infecting’ normal people and giving them wild and unstable powers. In Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked by touring Irish author Derek...
Changes to Booksellers NZ board
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Booksellers New Zealand chairman Hamish Wright has been re-elected to the Booksellers NZ board as a director. Wright commences a two-year term as director, having completed four years as chair....
Public libraries expenditure up 26% over five years
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Total expenditure on public libraries in Australia has grown by 26% since 2006, according to the 2010-2011 Australian Public Library Statistical Report, released last month. According to the report, which...
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