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McDonald to join SLNSW 

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced that Vicki McDonald will join the library as director of library services in February. The SLNSW said in a statement...

In brief 

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Ruffy joins Boroondara Library Service Jenny Ruffy joined the City of Boroondara Library Service in Melbourne in November in the role of library, arts and cultural services manager. Ruffy, who...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Sales Fiction—Hachette has sold Bulgarian and German-language rights to The Legacy of Lord Regret and The Lord of Lies (Sam Bowring); Italian-language rights to Past the Shallows (Favel Parrett); Czech-language...

Musgrave wins 2012 Newcastle Poetry Prize 

Monday, 10 December 2012
David Musgrave has won first place in the 2012 Newcastle Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Coastline’. Musgrave was presented with the $12,000 award at a presentation ceremony in Newcastle in...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 10 December 2012
On Christmas Eve, detective Alex Cross is at home in Washington DC decorating the tree with his family, when he receives a phone call that puts celebrations on hold: a corporate lawyer...

Tumarkin wins 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Monday, 10 December 2012
Melbourne-based writer Maria Tumarkin has been awarded one of the 2013 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, worth $160,000 over two years. As one of the seven Sidney Myer Creative Fellows, Tumarkin...

Melbournalia pop-up store returns for second year 

Monday, 10 December 2012
The Melbournalia pop-up store has returned to Melbourne’s CBD for a second year, with a single store located at the Queen Victoria Markets. Melbournalia, the brainchild of Dale Campisi and Michael Brady...

Finch Publishing celebrates 20 years 

Monday, 10 December 2012
Finch Publishing is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. The Sydney-based publisher, which employs ‘three-and-a-half very hardworking people’, held a party in August to mark the occasion. ‘But more importantly,’...

Auckland University Press turns 50 

Monday, 10 December 2012
Auckland University Press is celebrating 50 years in publishing this year. The scholarly publisher has no plans for a big party. Instead, it has launched a new website and logo...

Gammage wins 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award

Friday, 7 December 2012
Bill Gammage has won the 2012 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award for The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (A&U). Gammage’s book was selected from...

Google, Amazon join Kobo in Brazil

Friday, 7 December 2012
Following Kobo’s recent expansion into the Brazilian ebook market, Google and Amazon both launched ebookstores in Brazil this week, reports PaidContent. Google is now selling ebooks and movies in Brazil...

Buzo a finalist for Morris Award

Friday, 7 December 2012
Australian YA author Laura Buzo has been selected as a finalist for the 2013 William C Morris Award for her 2010 debut novel Good Oil (A&U), published in the US...

Australia objects to Amazon’s application for .book 

Friday, 7 December 2012
Australia has lodged a complaint against Amazon EU’s application for the .book internet domain, which is says restricts other entities from using the same domain and could have a ‘negative...

Dattner to step down as SPN general manager

Thursday, 6 December 2012
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that general manager Zoe Dattner will step down from her role in January. The SPN said in a statement that Dattner and the...

Hachette implements new ebook pricing in the US 

Thursday, 6 December 2012
In the US, Hachette has implemented new ebook pricing terms that are now being adopted by ebook vendors, reports Publishers Weekly. The changes follow the publisher’s decision to settle with...

Penguin launches seminar for ‘popular writing’

Thursday, 6 December 2012
Penguin Books Australia has launched a one-day seminar for aspiring writers of commercial fiction, called the Penguin School of Popular Writing. The seminar, which will be held on 19 January...

Eddington appointed Literature Board director

Thursday, 6 December 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Jill Eddington has been appointed as director of the Literature Board. The Australia Council said in a statement that Eddington will...

Wehner joins ABA management committee 

Thursday, 6 December 2012
Clayton Wehner, co-owner of online bookstore Boomerang Books and ebookstore Booku, has joined the management committee of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA said in a statement that it...

Curtis wins 2012 Johnno Award

Thursday, 6 December 2012
Bundaberg-based author and festival convener Sandy Curtis has won the 2012 Johnno Award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in Queensland. Curtis has written six...

Best books of 2012: a round-up

Thursday, 6 December 2012
The 'best books of the year' lists have become a book industry tradition in the lead-up to Christmas, and this year is no exception. Below we round-up some of the local and...

Johnson joins BICC 

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has joined the Federal Government’s Book Industry Collaboration Council (BICC). Johnson replaces Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne on the council and as...