Book Grocer Williamstown to close
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The Book Grocer will close its Williamstown store in August due to the planned redevelopment of the building in which the store is housed. ‘We’ve absolutely loved being a part...
Wright wins Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Short story-writer Michelle Wright has won the first Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Wright on a 30 day...
National Library of NZ produces its first ebooks
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The National Library of New Zealand’s book digitisation pilot program has produced its first ebooks, the library has announced on its website. Thirty-six titles have been converted into PDF and EPUB files,...
International Library News
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
British Council to reopen Pakistan library In Pakistan, the British Council will reopen its library in Lahore in mid-2014, 12 years after it was closed, reports the Express Tribune. The...
Kibble, Dobbie 2013 winners announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
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...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
‘For debut authors, independent book retailers are the best—and sometimes only—chance at getting into readers’ hands, because that bookseller will often physically put a book there along with a personal...
Moorhouse wins Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Frank Moorhouse has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria. The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of...
Readings creates a ‘Book Nook’ for Classic Cinema patrons
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Melbourne bookseller Readings has created a mini library with one of its partners, the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick. Launched last week, the Readings Book Nook is located in the foyer of the Classic Cinema and...
Fifteen redundancies confirmed at Lonely Planet in London
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Fifteen positions will be made redundant at Lonely Planet’s London office as part of the company-wide restructure announced last week, reports the Bookseller. A Lonely Planet spokesperson told the Bookseller...
Bookvibe book discovery platform to analyse tweets, Facebook posts
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Californian digital start-up Parakweet is developing a book discovery platform called Bookvibe, which analyses tweets and public Facebook posts to generate book recommendations, reports DigitalBookWorld. For consumers, the free service generates customised lists of recommendations from the users’ social...
Writers’ retreat launched in Tasmania
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
A new writers’ retreat has been established in a property in Taroona, south of Hobart. Novel Writing Retreats Australia, which will officially open in February 2014, is being run by...
Man Booker Prize 2013 longlist announced
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
The Luminaries by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (Granta) is among the 13 books longlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize. The Luminaries is Catton’s second novel, following The Rehearsal, which was first published by...
Complete the ‘Books+Publishing’ book industry employment survey
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Books+Publishing is conducting research into wages in the book industry for an article in Books+Publishing magazine. If you work in the book industry, we would love to get your input...
Booksellers recognised at Australian Retail Awards
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, the Co-op and ABC Stores have been recognised at the 2013 Australian Retailers Association (ARA) Australian Retail Awards. Melbourne-based Reader’s Feast was named runner-up in the Victorian Retailer...
ALIA launches federal election advocacy campaign
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) will be lobbying all candidates for the forthcoming federal election to endorse its ‘Library and Information Agenda’, which was released earlier this month. The...
In brief
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
ALIA 2013 National Advisory Congresses underway The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) 2013 National Advisory Congresses kicked off this week with an event at the State Library of Western...
OECD releases plan to close international tax loopholes
Monday, 22 July 2013
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has presented a plan to G20 nations to patch outdated tax laws, which can easily be exploited by global corporations to artificially...
RITA Awards 2013 winners announced
Monday, 22 July 2013
In the US, the winners of the 2013 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards have been announced. Among the winners are Simone St. James’ The Haunting of Maddy Clare...
Harlequin announces ebook partnership with ‘Cosmo’
Monday, 22 July 2013
Harlequin Australia has announced a partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine that will involve the publisher launching a digital romance fiction program called ‘Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin’. The partnership will...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 July 2013
The town of Chester’s Mill in Maine in the US is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible and impenetrable dome in Stephen King’s Under...
Edify appointed Pearson distributor in New Zealand
Monday, 22 July 2013
Edify, a new distribution company founded by former managing director of Pearson New Zealand Adrian Keane, will take over the sales and distribution of Pearson’s educational products in New Zealand in...
Exisle launches children’s imprint
Monday, 22 July 2013
Independent publisher Exisle Publishing has announced a new imprint that will specialise in children’s books. EK Books will publish its first book in October and plans to publish six to...
Rights round-up
Monday, 22 July 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has made a translation deal for The China Choice (Hugh White) with the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs via Graal Agency (Poland). Exisle Publishing has sold UK, US,...
‘Books at MIFF’ titles announced
Friday, 19 July 2013
The titles selected for this year’s ‘Books at MIFF’ session at the Melbourne International Film Festival have been announced. Seven titles were chosen from 89 submissions from 25 publishers and...
ACT Poetry Prize 2013 winner announced
Friday, 19 July 2013
Canberra-based author Lesley Lebkowicz has won the 2013 ACT Poetry Prize. Lebkowicz’s poem ‘Inside’ was chosen from 128 entries to win the annual award, which carries a cash prize of...
MWF 2013 program launched
Friday, 19 July 2013
London mayor Boris Johnson and style blogger Tavi Gevinson are among the international guests at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. Tickets...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2013 winners announced
Friday, 19 July 2013
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Designed Cover...
Law firm claims responsibility for Galbraith leak
Friday, 19 July 2013
London law firm Russells Solicitors has claimed responsibility for leaking J K Rowling’s identity as the writer Robert Galbraith, reports the Bookseller. In a statement the firm said: ‘We, Russells...
Up to 80 redundancies expected at Lonely Planet worldwide; 49 redeployment opportunities available
Friday, 19 July 2013
Australia-based travel publisher Lonely Planet has confirmed that between 70 and 80 staff across the publisher’s worldwide operations will be made redundant within the next 12 months after 49 redeployment opportunities have...
Bendigo Writers Festival 2013 program announced
Thursday, 18 July 2013
The program for this year’s Bendigo Writers Festival in Victoria, which runs from 9 to 11 August, has been announced. The festival kicks off with a speech from former prime...
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