Bloomsbury Australia creates new digital marketing role
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Bloomsbury Australia has appointed Bethia Thomas to the newly created position of digital marketing manager. Thomas, who joined the publisher in March, has previously worked in bookselling and publishing in...
Pulitzer Prizes announced, no fiction prize awarded
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 16 April, with the exception of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction which was not awarded this year. Instead, the board announced three finalists...
Kobo self-publishing platform to launch globally within months
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that its self-publishing platform will launch within months and will be available to users in Australia and New Zealand. Director of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
‘We understood that the shift to agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short-term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the...
Booksellers, publishers find success at Supanova 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Booksellers provided space for genre authors to meet with fans at the Supanova pop culture expo at Melbourne showgrounds on 13-15 April. Dymocks North Sydney ran a book stall selling various...
Orange Prize 2012 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$46,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by...
Electric Literature to launch new literary journal
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Electric Literature, a US-based independent publisher, will release the inaugural issue of its new digital literary magazine Recommended Reading in May. Recommended Reading will be a free digital magazine delivering...
‘Three Cups of Tea’ author to reimburse charity
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Following lawsuits regarding fraudulency and deception, Greg Mortenson, the author of Three Cups of Tea, published in Australia by Penguin, has been ordered to reimburse the charity he established to assist...
Sir Julius Vogel Awards finalists announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The finalists for the 2012 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced. Awards are presented in the professional award categories for best novel, best youth novel, best novella/novelette, best short story, best...
New owners for Melbourne secondhand bookstore
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Alice’s Bookshop, on Rathdowne Street in Carlton, Victoria, has been taken over by new owners Ellen Boyd and Joshua Green, reports the Age. The secondhand bookshop, which stocks approximately 18,500...
SA small business commissioner appointed
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The South Australian Government has appointed Mike Sinkunas as the state’s small business commissioner. Sinkunas, who has previously worked in education, computing and the SA public service, was appointed to...
Health libraries PD day
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Health Libraries Australia will hold a professional development day in conjuction with the ALIA Biennial conference in Sydney. It will take place at the Garvan Institute in Darlinghurst, Sydney from...
Darwin WordStorm 2012 program announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The program for this year’s WordStorm festival, to be held in conjunction with the National Poetry Festival, has been announced. The festival will run from 10-13 May in Darwin, featuring...
New Dymocks store opens in Melbourne
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
A new Dymocks bookstore opened on Saturday 14 April at Knox Shopping Centre in Wantirna South, Victoria, taking the place of a space once occupied by Borders. Dymocks employee Jamie...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The books from Suzanne Collins’ 'Hunger Games' series (Scholastic) dominate the charts once again, with Catching Fire still at the top of both the bestseller and highest new entries charts. The classic edition...
RiP Nick Webb
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Nick Webb, author and former publisher, has died aged 63. Webb’s works include Wish You Were Here (2003), The Dictionary of Bullsh-t (2006) and The Dictionary of Political Bullsh-t (2010).
Movie double-pass giveaway!
Monday, 16 April 2012
Lloyd is on top of the world—beautiful girls, great club sounds and a neverending supply of the love drug, sustained by a smuggling sideline for the local drug boss. But...
Weekly Book Newsletter published Thursday next week
Monday, 16 April 2012
Please note that, due to the ANZAC Day public holiday next Wednesday, Bookseller+Publisher's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 26 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements remains...
2012 ABIA finalists announced
Thursday, 12 April 2012
The finalists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The winners of the awards, as well as the Lloyd O’Neil Award and the Pixie O’Harris Award,...
On Tour: Meet the author Sebastian Barry
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Sebastian Barry is a guest of the Sydney Writers' Festival in May. His latest book is On Canaan's Side (A&U). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?...
Two ‘big’ US publishers refuse to renew Amazon contracts
Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Bookseller reports that 'at least two of the big six publishers in the US are refusing to renew contracts with Amazon.com, with the giant internet retailer said to be...
Yahoo seeks patents for ebook advertising systems
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Yahoo has filed US patent applications for ebook advertising systems which suggest the company is investigating revenue opportunities from ebooks ads. According to Yahoo’s patent applications, users could be offered...
Amazon launches new Spanish-language ebookstore
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Amazon has launched a new Kindle bookstore dedicated to Spanish-language titles for its US-based customers. eBooks Kindle en Español, which operates within Amazon’s existing Kindle store in the US, features...
William Boyd to write new James Bond novel
Thursday, 12 April 2012
UK author William Boyd (Restless, Any Human Heart) has been chosen by the Ian Fleming estate to write the next official James Bond novel. Boyd is the third author in...
Bowker Market Research launched
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Bowker, the US parent company of Thorpe-Bowker, which publishes Bookseller+Publisher, has announced it has merged its US-based PubTrack Consumer brand with its UK-based Book Marketing Limited business, under a new...
New award for Indigenous playwrights
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney has created the new Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award, which offers $20,000 for the creation of a new play by an Indigenous playwright. For the...
Dymocks 101 list for 2012
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has released its 101 Club list of the best books of all time for 2012, as voted by members of the company's Booklover loyalty program. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak,...
Dymocks Ponsonby closes
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the Dymocks store in Ponsonby, Auckland, has closed. A spokesperson for Dymocks told Bookseller+Publisher that the store finished trading towards the end of 2011...
Bob Carr leaves Dymocks board
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has confirmed that, as a consequence of his appointment to the Senate, newly appointed Foreign Minister Bob Carr has resigned from the Dymocks Board. There is, as yet, no...
Roberts begins as new CEO at State Library of Victoria
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Sue Roberts, the State Library of Victoria’s new CEO and State Librarian has taken up her position this week. A published author and leading thinker on the changing role of...
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