Amazon launches Spanish ebookstore
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Amazon has launched a dedicated Spanish-language Kindle store. The ebookstore launched at the beginning of April within Amazon’s existing Kindle store in the US. Publishers Weekly reports that the store...
Hachette Livre sells ebook distribution business
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Hachette Livre has sold the ebook distribution platform that it acquired in 2008, reports the Bookseller. The publisher sold the Numilog platform to its founder and CEO Denis Zwirn earlier...
Stella Prize to fund places for women at Varuna workshop
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Stella Prize Committee has announced that it will fund three places for women at a workshop on literary criticism run by the Australian chief literary critic Geordie Williamson at...
Awa Press nominated for business award
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Awa Press is a finalist in the 2012 Wellington Creative Gold Awards. The awards, which have been running since 1999, were initially set up in recognition of the region’s best...
Shearer’s wins Business Champion Award
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Shearer’s Bookshop was named Australia’s Champion Specialised Retail Small Business on Saturday 21 April at the Australian Small Business Champion Awards. Shearer’s, now based in Leichhardt, first opened in 1975...
Magabala Books celebrates 25 years
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Magabala Books, Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous publisher will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. The Broome-based publisher was founded in 1987 to restore, preserve and maintain Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander...
Williams leaves, George appointed COO at PMP; 2012 expected earnings downgraded for second time in six months
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
PMP chief executive Richard Allely has added the position of general manager of print and distribution to his role following the departure of Andrew Williams as a result of a...
ACCC ‘aware’ of international developments in ebook pricing investigations
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
A spokesperson for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Bookseller+Publisher that the commission is ‘aware of the developments in other jurisdictions concerning ebooks publishing and pricing’, in...
Whitcoulls to close Lambton Quay store
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Whitcoulls has confirmed that, after 104 years on the same site, the Whitcoulls Lambton Quay store will close at the end of May. A statement said that staff and stock...
Dempster to leave EWF
Friday, 20 April 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that this year’s festival will be the last for current director Lisa Dempster. The 2012 festival, which will be held between 24 May...
The recent boom in the remainder book trade
Friday, 20 April 2012
It’s an aspect of the industry that’s rarely discussed, but the remainder book trade in Australia is booming, reports Eloise Keating. When Angus & Robertson and Borders stores began to...
Clunes recognised as international booktown
Thursday, 19 April 2012
The International Organisation of Booktowns has declared the Victorian town of Clunes as an international booktown. This recognition places Clunes alongside 14 other international booktowns, including Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Wigtown...
New life in vampire lit: Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan talk about ‘Team Human’
Thursday, 19 April 2012
In their first YA collaboration, Justine Larbalestier (Liar, Zombies vs Unicorns) and Sarah Rees Brennan (‘The Demon's Lexicon’ trilogy) have approached the vampire genre from a new angle: the jilted...
Social media climbers: Stephanie Campisi on Pinterest and QR Codes
Thursday, 19 April 2012
If the news reports and in-the-wild sightings are anything to go by, 2012 is the year of Pinterest and QR Codes. Stephanie Campisi tracks their progress in the book world....
Booksellers for and against e-retailing
Thursday, 19 April 2012
From Booki.sh to ReadCloud and the recently announced TitlePage Plus, indie booksellers now have a number of options with which to enter the e-retail space. But not all are eager...
Apple, four publishers, to settle in EU antitrust case
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
As reported by the Bookseller, Apple and four publishers under investigation by the EU Competition Commission regarding ebook pricing have made proposals to ‘reach an early resolution of the case’,...
Brisbane’s mayor promises $100,000 for ‘Writers in Residence’
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
At the recent opening of the new Carindale library in Brisbane, Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced an election commitment to spend $100,000 on a new ‘Writers in Residence’ policy to...
Scholastic to launch Storia ebook platform this year
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
In the US, Scholastic has begun beta testing of its Storia ebook platform after more than 18 months of development, and plans to officially launch the platform in the second...
Better ebook access for NZ’s blind and print disabled readers
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
A new initiative announced by the Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind and Copyright Licensing Limited is intended to improve blind and print-disabled New Zealanders' access to international ebooks. The...
ARBR opens two new A&R bookstores in Queensland
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Angus & Robertson Book Retailing (ARBR), the sister company of former REDgroup-owned newsagency chain Supanews, has opened two new Angus & Robertson (A&R)-branded bookstores in Queensland. ARBR marketing manager Michaela...
Oxford, Vatican libraries to digitize
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Vatican library intend to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and put them online for use by scholars and...
Bookseller aprehends NY library book thief
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
A New York-based thief responsible for stealing and selling valuable library books has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. The New York Post reports that Andrew Hanson took dozens of books...
Random House to launch Children’s Vintage Classics list
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Random House will launch a new Children’s Vintage Classics list in August. The list will be priced at $9.95 and will be promoted in a campaign to include a 'a...
Meyer creates literary video series
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Literary blogger and former Bookseller+Publisher acting editor Angela Meyer has started an online video series ‘A Drink with…’ with episodes of 15 minute literary chats with authors in Melbourne cafes....
HarperCollins announces field sales review
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced that it is reviewing its field sales operation. CEO Michael Moynahan said in a statement this week that the publisher will 'shortly be launching a dedicated...
New Carindale library opens
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The Carindale Library reopened on 29 March in a new $2.67 million premises in the front of the new $300 million extension of Carindale Shopping Centre. The new building was...
Softlink launches new app
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Softlink has launched ‘Library Link’, a mobile application for android and iPhones that allows users to search for resources, place renewals and check alert messages for holds and overdue items....
Bombala Writers Festival kicks off this weekend
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Inspired by an image posted on Facebook of the Bombala Literary Institute—a decaying building dating back to 1865—several authors have banded together to bring the arts back to the town...
Readers of Whitehorse bookshop closes
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Independent Melbourne bookstore Readers of Whitehorse has closed. The store, which was located in the Centro shopping centre in Box Hill, Melbourne, finished trading on Friday 13 April. Readers of...
Lonely Planet launches country guide apps
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Lonely Planet has announced a series of new country guide apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, available via the App store. The first apps launched were country guides for...
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