Amazon wins broad patent on reselling and lending digital goods
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Amazon has been awarded what appears to be a broad patent on ‘reselling and lending “used” digital goods’, reports GeekWire. A patent filed in 2009 and granted on 29 January...
Apple releases Breakout Books program internationally
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Apple has released the ‘Breakout Books’ section of its iBookstore to international users. Breakout Books, which showcases ebooks by self-published authors, has been available to Australia and New Zealand iBookstore users since December, and features thousands of...
Bowen appointed Small Business Minister
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Chris Bowen has been appointed as the new Federal Minister for Small Business, the fourth Small Business Minister to be appointed in the role in the past 18 months. Prime...
WH Smith joins Nielsen BookScan retailer panel, Fishpond leaves
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Nielsen BookScan’s Australian retailer panel has undergone some changes in recent months. The panel, which supplies sales data for Nielsen BookScan’s retail book sales charts, now includes WH Smith, which joined the panel...
Caro to deliver ABA Conference keynote
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that Jane Caro will deliver the keynote address at this year’s ABA Conference. ABA CEO Joel Becker told Books+Publishing that Caro will be...
Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship applications now open
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Applications for the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship for 2013/14 are now open, and will close on Friday 5 April 2013. The biennial fellowship is open to...
ALA Midwinter Meeting: ebook lending, Dewey vs genre systems debated
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The American Library Association held its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, from 25-29 January. Patricia Genet, managing director of ALS Library Services, reports on some of the highlights: One of...
SLV to offer one-time Dome Centenary Fellowships
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) will offer four one-off fellowships as part of its Dome Centenary celebrations, the library said in a statement. The four Dome Centenary Fellowships will...
International library news
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Hamilton libraries’ borrowing rates plummet following controversial new fees In New Zealand, borrowing and reservation numbers at Hamilton’s five suburban libraries and city library have plummeted since controversial new council...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
‘One of the most basic things for editors to keep in mind when planning to move into digital publishing is to actually—at least occasionally—read ebooks’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum offers some...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Sales Fiction—Hachette has sold Turkish language rights to Wildflower Hill (Kimberley Freeman). Nonfiction—Hachette has sold Latvian language rights to Opening the Door of Your Heart (Ajahn Brahm); and audio rights...
In brief
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Geelong Regional Library announces chair and deputy chair The Geelong Regional Library Corporation has announced its chair and deputy chair following an election. Andy Richards of the City of Greater Geelong was...
Robert Edeson wins 2012 T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Perth resident Robert Edeson has won the 2012 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for his unpublished manuscript Weaverfish. Edeson received a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. His...
New awards launched for emerging writers in regional WA
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
WritingWA has launched two new literary awards to support emerging writers in regional areas of Western Australia. The writingWA Awards, which are being offered in partnership with Curtin University and...
New book design awards open for submissions
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The Most Beautiful Books—Australia and New Zealand (MBBANZ) award program is now open for submissions, organiser Stuart Geddes announced on Twitter. MBBANZ, which was established to ‘recognise excellence and innovation...
St Leger appointed to Copyright Agency
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Murray St Leger has been appointed deputy chief executive of Copyright Agency and Viscopy, effective immediately. St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia, has been working as a...
US ebook publisher RosettaBooks to open first UK office
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Ebook publisher RosettaBooks will open its first office outside of the US, reports the Bookseller. The New York-based publisher’s first UK office will be based in London and headed by...
Egmont to launch nonfiction imprint Red Shed
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
In the UK, children’s publisher Egmont will launch a new nonfiction imprint for children aged ‘three to teenage’, reports the Bookseller. Red Shed will be headed by Egmont’s publishing director...
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival schools program authors announced
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival has announced its schools program for 15-16 May. International authors appearing at the event include US author Libba Bray, UK-based author Patrick Ness, UK...
Memorial tribute for Roger Horton
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
A memorial to celebrate the life of Roger Horton will be held at 2pm on Sunday 17 February at Scribe Publications, 18-20 Edward St, Brunswick. Scribe’s publisher, Henry Rosenbloom, writes:...
Vale Jan Ormerod
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Jan Ormerod, Australian author and illustrator, has died aged 67. Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher of Walker Books, writes: ‘One of the first things Jan Ormerod ever said to...
The online experience: children’s bookselling strategies
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
With a number of children’s bookstores now selling online, Portia Lindsay asks several booksellers what works best on the web. Buying a children’s book is often a personal and a...
Line-up for Reading Matters conference announced
Monday, 4 February 2013
The full line-up for the 2013 Reading Matters conference, run by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, has been announced. International guests attending the YA books event, which runs from 30 May...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 February 2013
Former MasterChef host Sarah Wilson’s diet book I Quit Sugar (Macmillan) is at the top of the highest new entries chart this week. After Wilson developed a weight problem and...
Quilting book publisher to launch tween imprint
Monday, 4 February 2013
In the US, quilting book publisher C&T Publishing will unveil a tween imprint in March, reports Publishers Weekly. FunStitch Studio will be aimed at 8- to 14-year-old readers and will...
Controversy around 50th-anniversary cover for ‘The Bell Jar’
Monday, 4 February 2013
In the UK, a new cover for Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has been criticised for portraying the book as ‘glorified chick lit’, reports the Guardian. The cover of the...
Masters new general manager of SPN
Monday, 4 February 2013
Mary Masters has been appointed as the new general manager of the Small Press Network (SPN), replacing Zoe Dattner, who announced her decision to step down from the position in...
Writing for Fun: Andy Griffiths on ‘Once Upon a Slime’
Monday, 4 February 2013
In his new book Once Upon a Slime: 45 Fun Ways to Get Writing … Fast! (Pan Macmillan, April) Andy Griffiths gives advice to inspire young writers. The author spoke...
Barnes & Noble and S&S in dispute
Friday, 1 February 2013
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has ‘significantly reduced its orders from Simon & Schuster’ following a dispute over terms, reports Publishers Weekly. According to Publishers Weekly, the main reason...
Wheeler Centres launches new program, annual gala
Friday, 1 February 2013
The Wheeler Centre has released its first program for 2013, kicking off the year with its Gala Night of Storytelling based around Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The...
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