Funding for collecting institutions boosted by $64.1 million
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The increased funding for the National Library of Australia announced as part of the Federal Budget is part of an overall boost of $64.1 million over four years announced by Arts Minister Simon...
Sue Hines on A&U’s House of Books ebooks list
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Trade publishing director Sue Hines spoke to Bookseller+Publisher about Allen & Unwin’s new House of Books ebooks list. Will the A&U House of Books titles all be at the same...
Books-A-Million shareholders propose to take the company private
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
In the US, the Anderson family, the controlling shareholders in the Books-A-Million retail chain, have proposed to buy out the company's shareholders and take the chain private, reports Publishers Weekly. In a non-binding...
CAL launches online rights clearance portal
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has launched a new online portal for rights clearances. RightsPortal is designed to provide transactional rights clearance for users to reuse published works as well...
Booktown Festival attracts 17,000 to Clunes
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Approximately 17,000 people visited Clunes in central Victoria on the weekend for the annual Clunes Booktown Festival, up from approximately 14,000 in 2011. Linda Newitt, one of the event’s organisers,...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Sales Fiction–Scholastic Australia confirms three Chinese language deals for Anna Pignataro’s gift book trilogy: Always, Brave Little Penguin and Together. Hachette Australia has sold German-language rights to Past the Shallows...
RiP Maurice Sendak
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Maurice Sendak, the much-loved author and illustrator best known for his picture book Where the Wild Things Are, has died aged 83. Sendak received numerous awards over his career including the Caldecott Medal...
RiP Andrew Etheridge
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Andrew Etheridge, book industry veteran and bookseller at UNSW Bookshop, has died. The UNSW Bookshop team writes: ‘Some of you may have heard of the passing of our friend and...
Oz, NZ titles recognised at 2012 IPPY Awards
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) results have been announced. The winners in the Australian and New Zealand Best Regional Fiction category are: Gold: The Scent of Apples (Jacquie...
MWF secures $12,500 from Tourism Victoria for interstate promotions
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Victorian Government has announced that Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has received $12,500 in funding from Tourism Victoria to promote the festival nationally. The government said in a statement this...
2012 Romantic Book of the Year Award finalists announced
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The finalists for the 2012 Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as the R*BY Awards, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Short Sweet Molly Cooper's Dream...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Will Robie, a freelance hit-man hired by the US Government to eliminate suspected enemies, has no problems with killing the ‘bad guys’ but when his next target is a mother-of-two...
ASA Children’s Picture Book Illustrators grants announced
Monday, 7 May 2012
The recipients of the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) Children's Picture Book Illustrators grants have been announced. Trace Balla and Craig Phillips are both recipients of the Emerging Illustrators grant. Balla and Phillips...
University of South Pacific launches digital archive
Monday, 7 May 2012
The University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji has launched a digital archive of its research library in order to collect, promote and disseminate the research outputs of the...
California State Library celebrates Golden Gate Bridge anniversary
Monday, 7 May 2012
Throughout May, the California State Library in Sacramento will celebrate the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge with a display of related books and ephemera in the library’s California...
Literature program for Noosa Long Weekend Festival launched
Monday, 7 May 2012
The literature program for the 2012 Noosa Long Weekend Festival has been announced. The Noosa Festival, now in its 11th year, will run from 15-17 June in Noosa Heads, Queensland, with...
Wollongong creates bookclub for 20-somethings
Monday, 7 May 2012
Dapto Library, part of Wollongong City Libraries is hoping to attract a younger generation of readers via a 20-somethings book club. The library has put out a call via its...
Text donates books to Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library
Monday, 7 May 2012
For one week, Text Publishing is running a social media promotion: for every new ‘like’ or follow they receive on Facebook or Twitter, Text will donate one new book to...
Bega library to run on solar power
Monday, 7 May 2012
A network of solar panels has been installed onto the rooftop of Bega library, effectively making the library self-sufficient in terms of electricity consumption. Forming part of a town-wide project...
Interview with Frank Moorhouse on ‘Cold Light’
Friday, 4 May 2012
In the conclusion to Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry mixes politics with pleasure in post-war Canberra. Moorhouse spoke to Andrea Hanke in the...
Interview with Gillian Mears on ‘Foal’s Bread’
Friday, 4 May 2012
Gillian Mears grew up horse mad and horse-book mad. She spoke to Heather Dyer about her latest novel, Foal’s Bread (A&U) in the August 2011 edition of Bookseller+Publisher. (See the...
Interview with Anna Funder on ‘All That I Am’
Friday, 4 May 2012
Stasiland author Anna Funder found the transition to fiction ‘joyful’ and ‘liberating’. She spoke to David Gaunt about her debut novel All That I Am in the August 2011 issue...
Jani Patokallio: Why ebooks will soon be obsolete
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Ebooks will be obsolete within five years, claims Jani Patokallio. Crippled by territorial license restrictions, digital rights management, and single-purpose devices and file formats that are simultaneously immature and already...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2012 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 May 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch, UQP) All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin) Foal’s Bread (Gillian...
Joel Naoum: Key findings on experimentation in digital publishing from my Unwin Trust Fellowship
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Vanilla ebooks have been released by many major publishers in the UK from as early as 2006. They took off in a much bigger way when Amazon launched the local...
$20,000 for the Big Issue fiction edition, among several projects funded by CAL
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Several industry bodies have received funding from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in its latest round of Cultural Fund funding. In addition to the Australian Booksellers Association, the Indigenous Literacy...
Shortlist for NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year announced
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Four titles are in the running for this year’s Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Book of the Year. The titles shortlisted for the award are: Northern Voyagers (Alan Powell, Australian Scholarly...
ABA receives CAL funding to put conference sessions online
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Australian Booksellers Association is among several industry-related bodies to receive funding in the most recent round of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund funding. ‘We’re delighted to have received...
ILF receives $20,100 to produce two children’s books, among several children’s book initiatives funded by CAL
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has been allocated $20,100 in the most recent round of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund funding. As a result of the funding, the ILF...
Celarc appointed general manager of publishing at OPUS; Fahy steps down as MPG CEO
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
OPUS Group has appointed executive director Richard Celarc to the newly created position of general manager of publishing, following the group's recent reverse takeover of McPherson’s Printing Group (MPG). A spokesperson for...
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