Scholastic acquires Koala Books
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Scholastic Australia has announced that it has acquired children’s publisher Koala Books. Scholastic said in a statement that the Koala Books list will be published as an imprint of Scholastic...
Yale library announces winners of $1.35 million Windham Campbell Prizes
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
In the US, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has announced the winners of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes, worth US$1.35 million (A$1.32 million), reports Publishers Weekly. The...
VIDA reveals 2012 stats on gender split in lit mags
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
For the third year in a row, US-based organisation VIDA has released figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The...
Jones joins ABA as marketing/project officer
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Steve Jones to the newly created position of marketing/project officer. Jones is a former manager of Books Kinokuniya in Sydney and a consultant...
Henderson to return to Random House
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Random House has announced that Fiona Henderson will return to the publisher in the role of nonfiction publisher. Henderson, who is leaving her role as head of nonfiction at HarperCollins, will...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
‘Given the great success of the Quarterly Essay series, including most recently as an ebook, we saw a need and desire for punchy, accessible, authoritative short books about today’s key...
McDonald wins 2013 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Wellington illustrator Patrick McDonald has won the 2013 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award, which is sponsored by Random House New Zealand. McDonald will receive a cash prize of NZ$1500 (A$1215) and mentoring...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language rights (ex ANZ) for The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to the New York Review of Books. Stephanie Abou from Foundry Literary +...
In brief
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Library industry welcomes Federal Government education reform, but says more can be done The Australian School Library Association (ASLA), the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and library software supplier...
Winning design for Green Square Library and Plaza announced
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Sydney City Council has announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the new Green Square Library and Plaza. Felicity Stewart and Matthias Hollenstein of Sydney firm Stewart Hollenstein...
Australian library associations collaborate on anti-cyberbullying project
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
A new project designed to increase the participation of school library staff in schools’ efforts to reduce cyberbullying has been announced by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the...
International Library News
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Yale library announces winners of $1.35 million Windham Campbell Prizes In the US, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has announced the winners of the inaugural Windham...
Zoe Dattner on lessons from the TOC conference
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Zoe Dattner recently returned from the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference in New York. Below she shares some of her highlights, including an ‘aha’ moment on POD. Thanks to the...
Dattner appointed president of Small Press Network; Stinson steps down
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Former Small Press Network (SPN) general manager Zoe Dattner has been appointed president of the organisation, replacing Emmett Stinson, who has stepped down from the position. Stinson, who has been...
Farmer joins Murdoch Books
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Christine Farmer has joined Allen & Unwin in the role of publicity manager for Murdoch Books. Farmer, who previously worked for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand in the role of...
Black Inc. to launch new ‘Redbacks’ series in July
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Black Inc. will launch a new series of ‘short books on big issues by prominent Australian writers and thinkers’ in July. The Redbacks series will launch with Battlers & Billionaires...
Powers wins 2013 PEN Hemingway Award for ‘The Yellow Birds’
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Kevin Powers has won the 2013 PEN Hemingway Award for The Yellow Birds (Hodder). The $10,000 award is presented by PEN New England and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation for a...
UK booksellers petition for Amazon to pay more tax
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
In the UK, two booksellers are running a petition to have Amazon pay more corporation tax, reports the Bookseller. Frances and Keith Smith, who own two bookstores in Warwickshire, have collected close to 100,000...
2013 Unwin Trust Fellowship awarded to Fagan
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
HarperCollins publicity manager Kelly Fagan has been awarded the 2013 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Fagan will be sponsored by the UK-based Unwin Charitable Trust to spend three months in the...
Tolino ereader to launch in Germany
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
In Germany, Deutsche Telekom is launching an ereader called the Tolino Shine in collaboration with booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel and Club Bertelsmann, reports the Bookseller. The Tolino Shine, which supports...
2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards winners announced
Monday, 4 March 2013
The winners of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced in the US on 28 February. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Canongate) won the fiction...
A&U title selected for Richard & Judy Book Club
Monday, 4 March 2013
Allen & Unwin has become the first Australian publisher to be included in the Richard & Judy Book Club in the UK, with Second Chances by New Zealand based author...
ABA launches conference website; registrations open
Monday, 4 March 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched a dedicated website for its 2013 conference, which will be held at the Hilton Adelaide on 16 and 17 June. The new site includes...
Mainstream to cease publishing new titles
Monday, 4 March 2013
In the UK, Scottish independent book publisher Mainstream will cease publishing new titles from the end of this year, reports the Bookseller. The publisher’s Edinburgh office will close on 31...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2012 winners announced
Monday, 4 March 2013
For the fourth year running, historical romance author Anna Campbell has been named Favourite Australian Romance Author at the Australian Romance Readers Awards, which were announced in Brisbane on 2...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 March 2013
Alex Cross is in charge of tracking down three killers who are on the rampage in Washington DC. Under so much pressure, Cross doesn’t realise that an old enemy is also tracking him....
Dymocks to close D Publishing this month
Monday, 4 March 2013
Australian bookselling chain Dymocks has announced that it will close its self-publishing platform, D Publishing, at the end of this month. D Publishing said in a notice on its website...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Monday, 4 March 2013
Please note that, due to the public holiday next Monday in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and ACT, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 March. The deadline for classifieds and job...
Penguin must sit trial in DOJ ebooks antitrust case
Friday, 1 March 2013
In the US, Penguin will remain a defendant in the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust case against Apple over ebook pricing despite the publisher’s settlement with the DOJ in December, reports Publishers...
Queensland Literary Awards to offer government-funded fellowships
Friday, 1 March 2013
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) will offer three fellowships this year as a result of a new funding agreement with the Queensland Government. The Courier-Mail has reported that the Queensland Government will fund...
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