Australians nominated for 2013 Hugo Awards
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
A number of Australians are in the running for the 2013 Hugo Awards for science-fiction. Australian fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts has been nominated for Best Fan Writer. In the running for Best Fancast...
Will Amazon-acquired Goodreads start selling books?
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Amazon has acquired book-recommendation website Goodreads amid speculation that the site will soon incorporate a retail component, reports Publishers Weekly. When asked whether Goodreads will start selling books, Russ Grandinetti,...
Black Inc. relaunches Nero imprint for commercial titles
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc. has relaunched its Nero imprint for commercial titles, expanding the list to include Australian-originated nonfiction titles. The publisher has also announced that Jeanne Ryckmans has joined the...
International Library News
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Penguin eases library ebook lending restrictions In the US, Penguin has announced that it will now make all of its frontlist ebook titles available for library lending at the same...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, danger closes in on the Shadowhunters in the final instalment of the bestselling ‘Infernal Devices’ trilogy. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (Walker Books) is at...
Brooks nominated for US Indie Award
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Australian-American author Geraldine Brooks is one of six finalists in the running for the Indie Champion Award (formerly Most Engaging Author Award) in the 2013 US Indies Choice Book Awards. Also nominated...
Gecko Press wins Best Children’s Publisher of the Year at Bologna
Thursday, 28 March 2013
New Zealand publisher Gecko Press has won the Oceania category in the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Wellington-based children’s publisher was announced as one...
Lucashenko to present ASA Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 28 March 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that Melissa Lucashenko, ‘one of the most important Indigenous literary voices in contemporary Australian culture’, will deliver the 2013 Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture at the...
European Commission urges industry to embrace digital publishing
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, has warned that the European market will fall behind if digital publishing is not embraced, reports the Inquirer....
Macmillan to close MDS
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Macmillan Australia has announced that it will close Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) by the end of March 2014. Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb told Books+Publishing that as a result of...
A&U, author sued over ‘defamatory’ Corby book
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Relatives of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby are suing Allen & Unwin and author Eamonn Duff for defamation over Sins of the Father, which considers Schapelle Corby’s role in her...
Junot Díaz wins ‘Sunday Times’ short story prize
Thursday, 28 March 2013
In the UK, American author Junot Díaz has won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$43,000), reports the Guardian. Díaz’s winning story ‘Miss Lora’, written...
Ditmar Awards ballot announced
Thursday, 28 March 2013
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot have been announced and voting has commenced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel Sea Hearts (Margo Lanagan, A&U) Bitter Greens (Kate Forsyth,...
Australian romance writers make RITA Awards list
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2013 RITA Awards, with a number of Australian authors included in the honours. More than 1200 books were judged...
Reading Matters program announced
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The program for the 2013 Reading Matters conference, run by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria (SLV), has been announced. The conference will kick off with a welcome address...
Gilbert lets Facebook fans choose cover design
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Well-known writer Elizabeth Gilbert has asked her Facebook followers to help choose the cover of her new novel The Signature of All Things (Bloomsbury, October). USA Today reports that Gilbert battled Viking, her...
French minister announces €5 million fund for loans to booksellers
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
In France, Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has announced the creation of a €5 million (A$6.2 million) fund for loans to booksellers, reports the Bookseller. While announcing various measures that will...
Isol wins 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Argentinian illustrator and performing artist Isol is the recipient of the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s and young adult literature. Isol, who was born...
New academy to vote on ABIAs
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A new academy has been chosen to vote on the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The academy has been reduced in size from 150 to 100 members, consisting of 50...
Andrew Kelly on the Australia-China Publishing Forum
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Andrew Kelly, publisher of Wild Dog Books, reports from the Australia-China Publishing Forum. Representatives from eight Australian publishers—Jane Covernton, Working Title Press; Victoria Field, The Five Mile Press; Cate Sutherland,...
Booksellers respond to Booki.sh retail sales closure
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A number of independent booksellers who have been selling ebooks via the Booki.sh platform have expressed their disappointment in OverDrive’s decision to discontinue retail sales from the platform. As reported...
Boomerang and Booku up for sale
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The owners of Australian online print bookstore Boomerang Books and ebookstore Booku have put their business up for sale. Clayton Wehner and Steven Tein, directors of Eclipse Commerce Pty Ltd,...
Media Publishing launches online bookstore Talu Books
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Sydney-based publishing services company Media Publishing has launched a new online bookstore called Talu Books. The store, which soft-launched in August 2012 with a small number of titles, sells both...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
‘Put simply, a book that has overseas impact means more than a book that has a purely local impact. This is the form of the new cringe’—Emmett Stinson argues in...
NLA to inform publishers about changes to legal deposit arrangements
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is currently preparing a package of information for publishers to explain how the recently announced changes to legal deposit arrangements will be applied to...
Second consultation paper for NSLA, ABS survey redevelopment project released
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The second consultation paper for the Australian Public Library Statistics Survey Redevelopment Project, a joint project of the National & State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics...
NZ study proposes cut to tax-free threshold for online purchases, recommends tax collection through ‘multilateral agreement’
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A study commissioned by Booksellers New Zealand and produced by Victoria University’s New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation has recommended that the New Zealand government drastically...
In brief
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Visitors down, ebook loans up at Brisbane libraries Brisbane’s libraries have recorded a ‘massive slump’ in visitors but a ‘skyrocketing’ rate of ebook loans in the past five years, reports...
International Library News
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
UK library site Bookmark Your Library launched In the UK, a new website Bookmark Your Library has been launched to promote library services, reports the Bookseller. The website, which is...
Copia advertises for local merchandising role
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Ebook provider Copia is currently looking to expand its local team, advertising for someone to manage the online marketing and merchandising for its Australian operations. Copia said in a job...
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