Barefoot Books withdraws books with Amazon
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
In the US, independent children’s publisher Barefoot Books has announced it will no longer sell books through Amazon, reports Digital Book World. The publisher said in a statement that it...
Waterstones to restructure bookshop management positions
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is restructuring its bookshop management positions to put more emphasis on shop-floor bookselling, reports the Bookseller. Managing director James Daunt has sent an email informing staff...
SWF kicks off
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival was officially launched last night. The opening address was delivered by oral storyteller Daniel Morden, who embodies this year’s festival theme of storytelling, and entertained the...
Catherine Schulz on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
‘As an unintended consequence of changes in consumer buying habits, people are not paying taxes on things that they have done for years’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker calls for...
Masson re-elected as chair, Day as treasurer of ASA board
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Sophie Masson has been re-elected as chair and David Day as treasurer of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board. Masson, Irina Dunn, Helen O’Neill, Chris Pash, Mark Carthew, Robyn Sheahan-Bright...
Brockhoff joins Harlequin
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Harlequin Australia has announced that Sue Brockhoff has joined the publisher in the role of publishing and communications manager. Brockhoff, who was previously head of fiction at HarperCollins, started in...
White appointed head of international at HarperCollins; Catherine Milne to acquire lit fiction for Fourth Estate
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Michael White to the newly created position of head of international publishing. HarperCollins Australia marketing and communications director Simon Milne told Books+Publishing that White’s role covers fiction...
RiP Kevin Jones
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Kevin Jones, former manager of Publishers Distribution Limited (PDL), has died aged 65. Jones worked as manager of PDL, an Auckland-based distribution company, from March 2003 to May 2012.
New items added to Australian Memory of the World register
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Collections from the National Library of Australia and state and territory libraries in Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia are among 11 new items to be...
Australia’s Favourite Librarians announced
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Love2Read campaign have announced the winners of the Australia’s Favourite Librarian competition. The overall winner is Jae Rolt, a teacher-librarian from...
Australian libraries participate in Big Library Read project
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
A number of Australian libraries are participating in the Big Library Read project, a two-week ebook data experiment run by OverDrive and Sourcebooks. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the project...
In brief
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
ProQuest completes EBL acquisition ProQuest has announced the completion of its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL) from the Ebook Corporation. The EBL platform offers approximately 300,000 ebooks from more than 500 publishers to...
Nash nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year award
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Booktopia CEO and founder Tony Nash has been nominated for the 2013 Australian Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Nash, who founded Booktopia in 2004, is one of...
Scribe to launch new media series
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will launch a new series of nonfiction books about contemporary media trends later this year. The ‘Media Chronicles’ series will launch with The New Front Page: New...
Bowker launches SelfPublishedAuthor.com
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
In the US, Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has launched SelfPublishedAuthor.com, a website designed to help authors self-publish their work. The website, which says its aim is to ‘guide independent authors...
Sanders, Flowers shortlisted for AOI Illustration Awards
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Australian illustrators Ben Sanders and Tony Flowers have been shortlisted in the children’s book category of the UK-based Association of Illustrators (AOI) Illustration Awards. Sanders has been shortlisted for his book...
International Library News
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
OCLC appoints Prichard as president and CEO In the US, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has appointed Skip Prichard as president and CEO, reports Publishers Weekly. Prichard will replace Jay...
Hachette partners with Droga5 to create ‘in-flight’ collection for Qantas flyers
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Hachette Australia has partnered with Sydney creative agency Droga5 and Qantas to create a set of paperback books that are timed to be read during 10 of the airline’s main...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘Ruby Moonlight’ wins Book of the Year
Monday, 20 May 2013
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award were announced in Sydney on 19 May, on the eve of the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Ali Cobby-Eckermann’s verse...
‘The Light between Oceans’ shortlisted for UK historical fiction prize
Monday, 20 May 2013
The Light between Oceans by Australian author M L Stedman (Vintage) is one of five titles shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction, presented by Goldsboro Books...
2013 NT Literary Awards winners announced
Monday, 20 May 2013
The winners of the Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in the book-related categories are: Short stories ‘Responsible’ (Lois Murphy) Youth ‘Change Takes a Change’ (Juliette Parsons)...
2012 Aurealis Awards announced
Monday, 20 May 2013
The winners of the 2012 Aurealis Awards were announced at a ceremony in Sydney on 18 May, with Margo Lanagan picking up four awards, including best fantasy novel and joint...
Book discovery platform BookLikes goes live
Monday, 20 May 2013
In the US, another book discovery platform, BookLikes, has been launched. The platform allows users to create a personal webpage complete with blog, virtual bookshelf and reading timeline, and to...
European booksellers warn against closed ebook ‘ecosystems’
Monday, 20 May 2013
European booksellers have urged the European Commission to act over big retailers’ use of closed ebook ‘ecosystems’, reports the Bookseller. At the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) conference held...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 May 2013
Charlaine Harris fans will be sad to say goodbye to Sookie Stackhouse, the small-town telepathic waitress who loves vampires. Dead Ever After (Hachette), the 13th and final book in the...
Grybowski appointed Australia Council CEO
Friday, 17 May 2013
Tony Grybowski has been appointed as the new CEO of the Australia Council for the Arts. Grybowski joined the Australia Council in 2007 and previously held the position of executive...
Doctorow awarded Gold Medal for the Arts
Friday, 17 May 2013
US novelist E L Doctorow has been awarded one of the 2013 Gold Medals for the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, reports the New York Times....
Becker: How the GST threshold on overseas purchases can be lowered to one cent
Friday, 17 May 2013
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker has written a blog post on the Council of Small Business Australia website calling for Australian leaders to ‘show some gumption’ and close the GST ‘loophole’. In...
Jobs to Murdoch: HarperCollins had three options for ebook pricing
Friday, 17 May 2013
As Apple prepares to face the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in a courtroom on 3 June over the DOJ’s ongoing ebook pricing lawsuit, an email from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...
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