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Manning Valley Books moves to Wingham, NSW

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Manning Valley Books has moved to Wingham, NSW, from Taree, also in NSW, and will hold a grand opening of its new store on 9 August for National Bookshop Day. Bookstore...

International library news 

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Report says libraries struggle with ebooksA report from the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) suggests libraries around the world are struggling with ebooks, reports Publishers Weekly. The report said...

UTS library unveils automated retrieval system 

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
The University of Technology (UTS) Library in Sydney is offering tours of its new automated library retrieval system (LRT), which will be completed by the end of the year.The purpose-built...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
‘This Saturday 9 August is National Bookshop Day, and while we can all agree that books are great, we can probably also agree that pugs are even better’—Avid Reader is...

LIANZA Children’s Book Awards 2014 winners announced

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced the winners of its 2014 Children’s Book Awards.  The winners in each category are:LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen...

Sony will stop producing ereader devices 

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Sony will cease production of ereader devices, because it is not ‘economically viable’, reports the Bookseller. The announcement that the company will halt ereader production, made in an interview with German technology website Lesen,...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2014 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) Frederick’s Coat (Alan Duff, Random House...

Strout to step down as SWF executive director

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced that executive director Ben Strout will leave the role at the end of 2014. Strout joined the festival in 2009 and has ‘overseen growth...

RiP Shirley Painter 

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Australian author Shirley Painter has died, aged 95. HarperCollins writes:‘Sadly, Melbourne teacher and author, Shirley Painter died on Tuesday 29th July. In 2003, at the age of 84, Shirley received...

Vale Jo Goodman 

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Jo Goodman, former president of the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, has died, aged 73. The CBCA National Board writes:‘Jo Goodman’s death is deeply felt by...

Macmillan Education joins Copyright Agency’s LearningField

Monday, 4 August 2014
The Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service has expanded to include content from ‘all six of the major Australian educational publishers’ after Macmillan Education signed up to the service. The Copyright...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 4 August 2014
The regular and film tie-in editions of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) are in first and second place, respectively, on this week’s bestsellers chart. They’re ahead of...

HarperCollins completes acquisition of Harlequin

Monday, 4 August 2014
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has completed its acquisition of Harlequin from Torstar Corporation for C$455 million (A$447 million), reports Publishers Weekly. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the acquisition was...

PEN Literary Awards 2014 winners announced

Friday, 1 August 2014
PEN America has announced winners for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. The unpublished novel ‘And West is West’ by Ron Childress has won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction,...

Stories within worlds: Garth Nix on ‘Clariel’

Friday, 1 August 2014
‘The long-awaited prequel to Garth Nix’s “Old Kingdom” series (Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen) is going to make a lot of readers very, very happy,’ writes reviewer Holly Harper. She spoke to...

Macmillan US makes frontlist ebooks available to libraries

Thursday, 31 July 2014
Macmillan US is adding frontlist ebooks published in the previous 12 months to its public library elending project, reports DigitalBookWorld. The addition of frontlist titles increases the number of Macmillan...

Amazon outlines objectives in Hachette dispute

Thursday, 31 July 2014
Amazon has outlined its objectives in its dispute with Hachette US over sales terms in a post on its Kindle forum. A key objective is ‘lower ebook prices’, says the...

Ubud announces 2014 program

Thursday, 31 July 2014
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 11th festival, which will run from 1-5 October in Bali, Indonesia.Among the line-up are a number...

Ashton wins 2014 RITA Award

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 RITA Awards.   Among the winners was Australian author Leah Ashton, who picked up the award for Short Contemporary Romance...

 

 

 

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