New UK research centre to examine copyright, inform policy
Friday, 1 February 2013
A new research centre at Glasgow University has been established to examine ‘the changing nature of copyright and the need for new business models in the digital age’, reports the...
Hardie Grant stationery competition finalists announced
Friday, 1 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced the finalists in its stationery competition. As reported by Books+Publishing, the publisher called for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a...
Australians, New Zealanders on YALSA 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list
Friday, 1 February 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors are featured in the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2013. They are:...
Telling Tales: Julie Hunt on ‘Song for a Scarlet Runner’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Julie Hunt has created a thrilling tale of life on the run in Song for a Scarlet Runner (A&U, April). The author spoke to Jarrah Moore. You can read Moore’s review...
On tour: Meet the author Gayle Forman
Friday, 1 February 2013
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? ‘Just One Day is a Trojan Horse novel. It trots up to you as a love story between a straight-laced...
Talkback: A preference for digital or printed proofs?
Friday, 1 February 2013
Do you prefer to receive digital or printed proofs? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers. Mandy Macky, owner, Dymocks Adelaide While all of us read on ereaders from time to time, our...
Life, continued: Anna Goldsworthy on ‘Welcome to Your New Life’
Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...
Murder they wrote: Marion Roberts and Kim Kane on ‘Cry Blue Murder’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Marion Roberts and Kim Kane collaborated on the YA thriller Cry Blue Murder (UQP, May). They spoke to Meredith Lewin. Cry Blue Murder is a contemporary YA thriller that comes...
A year in children’s books: publishers’ top junior picks for 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
From a Pride and Prejudice-inspired picture book set in an Australian farmyard to a YA thriller that explores the dangers of online communication, publishers tell us their top children’s and...
A serious lack: YA books with Indigenous characters
Friday, 1 February 2013
Why are there so few YA books with Indigenous characters, asks Danielle Binks. Last year I read two wonderful Australian YA books, written by Indigenous authors and featuring Aboriginal protagonists....
Diversity in fantasy: Kylie Chan on ‘Dark Serpent’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Dark Serpent (HarperVoyager, May) is the first book in Kylie Chan’s ‘Celestial Battle’ trilogy, which combines martial arts and magic, and the seventh book in an ongoing story that began...
A survival story: Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch
Friday, 1 February 2013
After its premises and all of its stock were destroyed in the February 2011 earthquake, the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch has rebuilt outside of the city centre, and flourished. Owner...
Doin’ it for the kids: festival programming for younger readers
Friday, 1 February 2013
Most Australian writers’ festivals offer some children’s events, usually as part of a discrete schools’ program. Kate Blackwood spoke to several festival programmers to get their thoughts on running events...
Adele Walsh: YA through a US lens
Friday, 1 February 2013
The Centre for Youth Literature’s Adele Walsh travelled to YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium in Missouri and YALLFest in South Carolina last year with the hope of picking up some ideas...
Finding the man: Cory Taylor on ‘My Beautiful Enemy’
Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second novel, Cory Taylor worked hard to capture the voice of her protagonist, a young soldier infatuated with a Japanese youth in an internment camp in regional Victoria...
Anne Beilby: The rights direction
Friday, 1 February 2013
Anne Beilby has been rights manager at Text Publishing since the days when pitch letters were sent by fax. She shares her career journey. I studied anthropology, literature and languages...
On tour: Meet the author Lauren Beukes
Friday, 1 February 2013
Lauren Beukes is travelling to Australia in May. Her latest book is The Shining Girls (HarperCollins). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? A time-travelling serial killer is unstoppable...
Ebooks in Oz: An update
Friday, 1 February 2013
In September and October 2012, Bowker Market Research conducted its second Global eBook Monitor survey, repeating its January 2012 survey in Australia, India, the UK and the US, and adding...
Your store: Notions Unlimited promotes on YouTube
Friday, 1 February 2013
Notions Unlimited Bookshop in the beachside suburb of Chelsea, Victoria, has recently created three YouTube videos to promote its store and reach out to members of its local community. One...
Designing in a digital world
Friday, 1 February 2013
Now that ebooks have established themselves in the market, are they changing the way designers work? Drew Turney reports. One of the more ambitious ebook projects of the past year has...
The proof is in the printing: Print-on-demand and short-run digital
Friday, 1 February 2013
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of print-on-demand (POD) and short-run digital printing. Eloise Keating asked several publishers to share recent examples of their benefits. Black Inc.’s US choice for POD...
HarperCollins taps into Indian schools market
Thursday, 31 January 2013
HarperCollins Worldwide is launching an education publishing division within HarperCollins India, called Collins India, which will be its ‘largest ever investment in international education publishing’, reports the Bookseller. Collins India hopes to provide a...
Amazon reports 22% fall in profits in 2012
Thursday, 31 January 2013
In the US, Amazon has announced its full-year results, revealing that it lost $39 million net (A$37.3 million) in 2012, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, sales increased 27%...
Queensland’s Laidley Library damaged by floods
Thursday, 31 January 2013
The Laidley Library in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley has once again been damaged by flood waters, just six months after reopening in its newly renovated premises. The library, which is located...
International library news
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Macmillan announces ebook library lending program with OverDrive In the US, Macmillan will launch a library lending program with ebook distributor OverDrive, the publisher announced in a statement. As part...
Ivers joins Simon & Schuster
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Roberta Ivers has been appointed in the newly created position of managing editor at Simon & Schuster Australia. Managing director Lou Johnson told Books+Publishing that Ivers will assist head of...
WritingWA to launch new website for regional members
Thursday, 31 January 2013
WritingWA has announced that it will create a new website called Proximity to provide its regional members with greater access to writers’ festivals. The website, which will be launched in...
‘Bring Up the Bodies’ wins Costa Book of the Year
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate) has won the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award. Mantel was presented with the £30,000 (A$45,147) award...
Amazon to offer advertising space on Kindles in the US
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In a bid to ramp up its competition with online rivals Google and Facebook, Amazon is offering a range of new advertising spots on its websites and its Kindle devices...
Barnes & Noble could close one third of stores in 10 years
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble could close one third of its stores in the next 10 years, reports the Wall Street Journal. Barnes & Noble chief executive Mitchell Klipper...
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