Keynote speakers announced for ALIA conference
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the keynote speakers for its Information Online conference, to be held in Brisbane from 12-15 February. The opening address will be...
International Library News
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
UK Labour Party calls for national body for libraries In the UK, the Labour Party has released a policy report on the public library service that recommends the establishment of...
Booktopia asks readers to choose ‘Australia’s Favourite Novelist’
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Booktopia is running a promotion for readers to vote for their favourite Australian novelist to coincide with the bookseller’s ‘month of Australian stories’. Nominations, which were accepted by email, Twitter and...
‘Creative Minds’ giveaway
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Creative Minds is a six-part documentary series about Australian artists or those who have contributed to Australian cultural life. Originally screened on SBS, each program explores an artist’s life story and...
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
‘We are particularly focused on building direct relationships with readers’—Random House marketing and publicity director Brett Osmond explaining the publisher’s new monthly book club with radio station Smooth FM.
Study finds number of UK bookshops halved in seven years
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
In the UK, new research has found that the number of high-street bookshops in Britain halved between 2005 and 2012, reports the Telegraph. According to the research, conducted by Experian,...
Apple to sell Japanese-language ebooks
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Apple will begin selling Japanese-language ebooks this month, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to reports from Japan, Apple will offer approximately 80,000 titles from a range of publishers, including Kadokawa, Shogakukan...
UK pre-Christmas print book sales reach three-year high
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
In the UK, sales of print books reached a three-year high in the week before Christmas, reports the Bookseller. According to data from Nielsen BookScan, £75.4 million (approximately A$115.2 million)...
Self-published authors comprise 15% of the top 100 UK Kindle books
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Amazon has reported that 15% of its bestselling Kindle books in the UK during 2012 came from self-published authors, reports the Bookseller. Of the top 100 Kindle books sold in the UK,...
Pearson purchases stake in Barnes & Noble’s Nook
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Pearson has invested US$89.5 million (approximately A$85 million) in US bookseller Barnes & Noble’s ebook device and retail brand Nook Media ‘in order to gain favourable distribution for its education...
RiP Jill Hellyer
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Jill Hellyer, poet and founding member of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), has died. Hellyer was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2006 for service...
Please complete our post-Christmas survey
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Bookseller+Publisher is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
Random House partners with Smooth FM to launch new book club
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Random House Australia has partnered with radio station Smooth FM to launch a new monthly book club that will involve book giveaways, author interviews and an online forum. The book...
Poole leaves Writers Victoria
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Writers Victoria has announced that director Roderick Poole has left the organisation. Poole finished in his position on 30 December 2012 after spending two-and-a-half years as director. He joined the organisation in 2010 and led...
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards finalists announced
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards finalists have been announced. Australian and New Zealand finalists include: Authors category Chef: Origin: The Food of Ben Shewry by Ben Shewry (Murdoch Books). ...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The film tie-in edition of J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit (HarperCollins) is in sixth place on the bestsellers chart this week, while another film tie-in edition, Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate),...
Wright wins 2012 Age Short Story Award
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Michelle Wright has won the 2012 Age Short Story Award, worth $1000, for her story ‘Maggot’, reports the Age. Graeme Simsion won the second prize for his story ‘Three Encounters with the...
Purcell named 2013 CAL Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at UTS
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has been appointed as the 2013 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of her residency, which begins in...
Staff changes at ‘Island’ magazine
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Former Fullers Hobart events manager Rachel Edwards and Review of Australian Fiction editor Matthew Lamb have been appointed co-editors of Island magazine. Edwards and Lamb will replace editorial director Dale...
2012 Costa Book Awards category winners announced
Friday, 4 January 2013
The category winners for the 2012 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Novel Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel, Fourth Estate) First novel...
Supply, stock, staff, sale
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
While booksellers were generally positive about supply this year, there were, as ever, some grumbles about key titles going out of stock (in particular, Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals), slow deliveries,...
Pre-Christmas survey 2012: moderate expectations
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
After what almost all agree was one of the toughest years in the trade in a long time, expectations for booksellers going into Christmas 2012 are moderate: 62% of those...
Nielsen BookScan figures: overall sales down, top 10 up
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Overall, sales in the 10 weeks to 8 December 2012 are down one percent in value and 5.5% in volume, compared to the pre-Christmas period last year. The average selling...
The books: Jamie, Jeff and Bryce
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
The most common response from booksellers when asked about their bestselling titles this Christmas was just one word: Jamie. Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) has been at...
Online sales, ebooks and ereaders
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Online sales ‘about the same’ for bricks-and-mortar stores As was the case in 2011, most bricks-and-mortar bookstores surveyed reported selling print books online, either as part of a chain with...
Publishers’ perspectives
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
The majority of publishers surveyed by Bookseller+Publisher have reported that sales are flat or down on last year, with only a couple reporting an increase in sales. With a few...
The wash-up
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
While most booksellers are expecting an okay Christmas, what this means for the bottom line is unclear. Booked at North Adelaide owner Sue Roberts expressed a common sentiment among survey...
Textual healing: Forthcoming mind-body-spirit titles
Thursday, 13 December 2012
From supergrains to creative seeds, Shannon Wood rounds up forthcoming titles in the mind-body-spirit genre. Shape up While weight-loss titles are popular all year round, summer is the peak time...
Turning up the volume: Innovation at Bolinda
Thursday, 13 December 2012
It’s a small and often overlooked part of the book market, but audiobooks are showing no signs of decline. Andrew Wrathall spoke to Bolinda CEO Rebecca Herrmann about the company’s...
Bookseller’s diary: Nicole Maher of Great Escape Books
Thursday, 13 December 2012
The population of Aireys Inlet may be small in winter, but there’s plenty to keep bookseller Nicole Maher busy throughout the year. The owner of Great Escape Books and co-organiser...
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