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Booksellers NZ returns to surplus 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Booksellers NZ has announced it has returned to a surplus for the financial year ended 31 March after posting a loss in 2010-11. The organisation’s annual report to members said...

Copyright Licensing New Zealand rebrands 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
New Zealand’s copyright agency has changed its name and rebranded. Formerly called Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL), the organisation has been renamed Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ). ‘Our new brand name,...

Network Ten’s ‘The Circle’ to end this week 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Circle, Network Ten’s weekday morning program aimed at women, will air for the last time this Friday after the network announced its decision to end the program for financial...

Jones replaces Denny at ‘The Bookseller’ 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Denny, who has been in the role of editor-in-chief since 2004, said he was...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Secret Lives of Emma (Natasha Walker, Bantam) is first on the highest new entries chart followed by Brave Heart (Brett Kirk & Hayley Smithers-Kirk, Random House), in which retired...

Writers WA reinstates Writers on the Road program 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
WritersWA has announced it has been ‘able to reinstate our popular Writers on the Road program for 2012’ as a special initiative of the National Year of Reading, with funding...

APA appears before parliamentary inquiry into technology prices 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has participated in public hearings for the federal parliamentary inquiry into the prices of software and other electronic products paid by Australian consumers. Macmillan group managing director...

RiP Maeve Binchy 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Maeve Binchy, the bestselling Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle(Arrow), Tara Road (Orion), and Circle of Friends (Arrow), which was adapted for the screen in 1995, has died aged...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Israeli rights fo Nine Days (Toni Jordan); Dutch rights for The Boy Who Loved Apples (Amanda Webster); and UK rights for Shadows and Haze (Paula Weston). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed Chinese...

Tredinnick wins Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Monday, 30 July 2012
Australian poet Mark Tredinnick has won first place in the 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Margaret River Sestets’. Tredinnick was announced as the winner of the competition...

Kenny to lead Hachette Southeast Asia office 

Monday, 30 July 2012
Hachette UK has announced that Paul Kenny will oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong in the new role of Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously...

QLA announces new people’s choice award

Friday, 27 July 2012
The organisers of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, have announced a new people’s choice award, to be sponsored by...

Education Works placed into administration

Friday, 27 July 2012
School bookseller Education Works has been placed into voluntary administration. Andrew Sallway, Said Jahani and Matthew Donnelly of Grant Thornton were appointed administrators of the company and its eight related...

Man Booker Prize 2012 longlist announced

Thursday, 26 July 2012
The titles longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Yips (Nicola Barker, Fourth Estate) The Teleportation Accident (Ned Beauman, Sceptre) Philida (André...

John Button Prize 2012 shortlist announced

Thursday, 26 July 2012
The John Button Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2012 John Button Prize. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Andrew Charlton,...

Booksellers warned of potential fraud orders

Thursday, 26 July 2012
A number of Australian booksellers have been affected by what appears to be a series of fraudulent orders originating overseas and being delivered to a Sydney-based freight forwarder. Co-founder and...

2012 Kibble, Dobbie winners announced

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established...

Forthcoming events 

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Book-related events over the coming fortnight include: Reality Bites Literary Festival, Conroy, QLD: 26-29 July National Poetry Day, NZ: 27 July Booksellers NZ Conference, Auckland, NZ: 1-2 August Corrugated Lines: A Festival of...

Samuel replaces Brady as Clunes festival director 

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Stephen Samuel has been appointed as the director of the Clunes Booktown festival, replacing Tess Brady who has stepped down from the role after directing the festival since the inaugural...

Bastian leaves Varuna 

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. Acting chair of Varuna’s board of directors Sharryn...

ABS to collect online retail data from 2013 

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Federal Government has announced that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will begin collecting data on online retail spending by the end of 2013. The government has allocated $2.1...

Penguin acquires self-publishing service Author Solutions 

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Pearson has acquired the self-publishing service Author Solutions ‘from Bertram Capital for US$116 million [approximately A$113 million] in cash’, the publisher announced in a statement. The company said that while Author...

 

 

 

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