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Monday, 11 November 2013
Ricky Ponting’s Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) has ended Tim Winton’s two-week run at number one on the bestsellers chart, with Eyrie (Hamish Hamilton) now in second place. Di...

Human Rights Literature Award 2013 shortlist announced

Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights (Jane Lydon, NewSouth)...

RiP Peter Darby

Monday, 11 November 2013
Bookseller Peter Darby has died, aged 79. Pam Horsey writes: ‘Peter began his bookselling career in the 1950s at Robertson & Mullen. He was a quiet and private person with...

Booksellers respond negatively to Amazon Source launch

Friday, 8 November 2013
A number of booksellers in the US and UK have responded negatively to the newly launched Amazon Source program, which allows retailers to stock Kindle devices and to receive revenue...

Reilly and Fox top PLR, ELR lists

Friday, 8 November 2013
Books by Matthew Reilly and Mem Fox have once again topped the lists of the highest scoring titles in the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes....

British Fantasy Awards 2013 winners announced

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (Gollancz) has won the Best Fantasy Novel category at the 2013 British Fantasy Awards, which were presented at the World Fantasy Convention...

Lynn Coady wins Giller Prize 2013

Thursday, 7 November 2013
In Canada, Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short-story collection Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). She wins C$50,000 (A$50,340). Coady’s book was chosen by judges...

Amazon launches Kindle reseller program for booksellers

Thursday, 7 November 2013
In the US, Amazon has launched a new program that allows booksellers and other retailers to sell Kindle devices and receive revenue for Kindle ebook purchases, reports Publishers Weekly. Retailers...

Adelaide Writers’ Week launches Copia-powered ebookstore

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has launched an ebookstore that is powered by Copia. The ebookstore went live at the end of October to coincide with the launch of the 2014...

ILD raises over $170,000

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) raised over $170,000 from this year’s Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) on 4 September, bringing the foundation’s fundraising total to just over $570,000 for the year-to-date....

2013 Softlink survey finds 81% of school library budgets unchanged or decreased

Thursday, 7 November 2013
In Softlink’s fourth annual Australian School Library Survey, 81% of respondents have reported that their school library budget has remained the same or decreased over the past 12 months. The...

YABBAs 2013 winners announced

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The winners of the 2013 Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBAs) have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks Pooka (Carol Chataway & Nina Rycroft, Working Title Press) ...

Dymocks launches first pop-up store; new location for Canberra store

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Dymocks has opened its first pop-up store in the Westfield Eastgardens shopping centre in Sydney. The store, which is 25 sqm in size, opened on 17 October and will trade...

Courtland named Library Technician of the Year

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Susan Courtland is the recipient of the 2013 Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Library Technician of the Year Award. Courtland, who is the e-services specialist at the Shire of...

Quote of the week

Thursday, 7 November 2013
‘Her story proves that digital publishing and the communities that have embraced it are part of the future for any serious publisher’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum reflects on author Kylie Scott’s...

Walkley Book Award 2013 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Speechless: A Year in My Father’s Business (James Button, MUP) Night Games (Anna Krien, Black...

Hughes-Hallet wins Samuel Johnson Prize

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
In the UK, author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the £20,000 (A$33,802) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for The Pike (Fourth Estate), her biography of the controversial Italian artist and nationalist...

New children’s website Gobblefunked launches

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
A new website dedicated to children’s books has launched in Australia and Ireland. Gobblefunked was founded by Linda Crosbie and Anne Whelton, who live in Melbourne, Australia, and Dublin, Ireland, respectively....

New open-access literary journal to focus on author interviews

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
A new open-access literary journal, jointly published by Flinders University in Australia and the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, will launch in February 2014. Writers in Conversation, which...

Goldman Sachs to invest in ProQuest

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
In the US, ProQuest has announced that an affiliate of financial services firm Goldman Sachs will purchase a ‘significant minority equity interest’ in the company. ProQuest said in a statement...

Jordon resigns from Collins Booksellers

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Daniel Jordon has resigned as CEO of Collins Booksellers. Collins Booksellers said in a statement this week that Jordon has left the company to take up a position with the...

A&U announces senior appointments for Gilliatt, Hines

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced two senior appointments to the business. Tom Gilliatt, Pan Macmillan’s director of nonfiction publishing and digital-only imprint Momentum, has been appointed publishing director of Allen & Unwin,...

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