Hachette UK appoints consumer insight director
Thursday, 21 March 2013
In the UK, Hachette has created the new position of consumer insight director, and appointed current vice-president of global consumer insight at EMI Music, Louisa Livingston, to the role, reports...
2012 Aurealis Awards finalists announced
Thursday, 21 March 2013
The finalists for the 2012 Aurealis Awards have been announced. Among the categories announced were: Fantasy novel Bitter Greens (Kate Forsyth, Vintage) Stormdancer (Jay Kristoff, Tor UK) Sea Hearts (Margo...
Most Beautiful Books Australia and New Zealand award winners announced
Thursday, 21 March 2013
The winners of the inaugural Most Beautiful Books Australia and New Zealand (MBBANZ) award have been announced. The winners are: Anthology of New Zealand Literature (ed by Jane Stafford &...
‘Between past and present’: Amanda Curtin on ‘Elemental’
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Reviewer Gerard Elson describes Amanda Curtin’s new novel Elemental (UWA Publishing, May) as a ‘fruitful fascination with memory, history and the generational legacies of family’. The author spoke with Elson,...
NZ Commerce Commission clears Penguin Random House merger
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The New Zealand Commerce Commission has cleared the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. Commerce Commission chairman Mark Berry said in a statement on 19 March that ‘the commission...
US Supreme Court rules that doctrine of first sale applies to works made overseas
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that the doctrine of first sale, which allows for ‘legally acquired copyrighted works to be resold by their owners’, does apply to...
Dymocks Children’s Charities launches fundraising read-a-thon Book Bonus
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Dymocks Children’s Charities (DCC) has launched a fundraising initiative for schools in NSW called Book Bonus. Book Bonus is an online read-a-thon in which students raise funds through sponsorship, with half of...
Random House’s Jonathan Cape to publish new children’s fiction
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
In the UK, Random House imprint Jonathan Cape Children’s Books has announced it will publish a list of new children’s fiction, reports the Bookseller. Jonathan Cape has previously only published...
Inaugural Stella Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The shortlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U) Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser, A&U) The Sunlit Zone (Lisa...
Book industry responds to National Cultural Policy
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The Federal Government’s recently announced National Cultural Policy and $75.3 million boost in funding for the Australia Council has been well received by the book industry. However, details about how...
Reference publisher Millennium House for sale
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Sydney-based specialist publisher Millennium House is for sale. Millennium House founder and managing director Gordon Cheers told Books+Publishing that he has decided to sell the business, which publishes around 20...
HGE acquires Transformers license
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has been appointed licensee of the Transformers brand in Australia and New Zealand. The publisher acquired the license after former licensee Ice Water Press was placed...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Sales Fiction—Scribe has licensed Spanish rights to The Low Road (Chris Womersley). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Welcome to Your New Life (Anna Goldsworthy) to HarperCollins India (English language edition for...
Government to extend legal deposit to electronic resources
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The Federal Government has announced that it will make changes to the Copyright Act 1968 to extend the current legal deposit arrangements to cover ‘digitally published material’ as part of...
International Library News
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
American Library Association honours internet activist Aaron Swartz In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has posthumously awarded the 2013 James Madison Award to internet activist Aaron Swartz as...
In brief
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Construction underway on new University of Southern Queensland library Construction on the new University of Southern Queensland library has commenced, reports the Fraser Coast Chronicle. The former site of the Hervey Bay...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
‘The development of a National Cultural Policy is a golden opportunity for the Government to not just build the infrastructure of the future but to ensure that it can deliver...
McInnis appointed ‘Meanjin’ deputy editor; iPad app now available
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Catherine McInnis has been appointed deputy editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin. McInnis, who also works for Melbourne University Publishing in the role of digital marketing assistant, started in the...
UK ebook prices rise after Sony ends 20p promotion
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the UK, Sony has ended its long-running 20p ebook promotion, prompting Amazon to also raise its prices for the same books, reports the Bookseller. When Sony began the promotion,...
‘Alphabet Soup’ magazine closes
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Alphabet Soup, a literary magazine for primary-school aged children, has closed. Launched in 2008, the quarterly magazine showcased children’s writing and artwork alongside that of adults, and had a subscriber...
Penguin demands jury trial in ebook price-fixing case
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the US, Penguin has filed a motion demanding a jury trial in the ebook price-fixing cases filed by the states and the consumer class action, reports Publishers Weekly. Penguin...
Bowker research shows ereading driving eretailer market share growth
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
In the US, the latest consumer research from Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker, has found that a rise in ereading in the US and UK over the last...
Mullins to be awarded 2012 Dromkeen Medal
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Children’s book author and illustrator Patricia Mullins will be awarded the 2012 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 20 March. Mullins is the author and illustrator of...
BBC Worldwide sells Lonely Planet to US-based NC2 Media
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
BBC Worldwide has sold Lonely Planet to US-based media company NC2 Media, owned by billionaire Brad Kelley. BBC Worldwide said in a statement that it has sold the Melbourne-based publisher...
Australian library tops OverDrive list of fastest-growing ebook lenders in 2012
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
An Australian library service has topped ebook distributor OverDrive’s list of the fastest-growing ebook lenders in 2012. Australia’s Moreton Bay Region Libaries in Queensland topped the list of ‘public libraries recording the...
Amazon launches Little A literary imprint
Monday, 18 March 2013
Amazon has released the first title under its new literary imprint Little A, reports Publishers Weekly. The Blue Book by A L Kennedy is the first title to by Little...
Attendance at Adelaide Writers’ Week ‘consistent with last year’; de Courcy tops bestseller list
Monday, 18 March 2013
Attendance figures at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week were ‘pretty consistent with last year’s numbers’, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said that ‘some of the sessions ran to well...
Bookstores’ class action against Amazon, publishers could go to trial in October
Monday, 18 March 2013
In the US, Judge Jed Rakoff has set an aggressive schedule for the class action lawsuit filed by three bookstores against Amazon and the big six publishers, telling the parties that...
Google to publish ebooks that tie in with popular video game
Monday, 18 March 2013
In the US, a Google games division will publish a series of ebooks related to a popular online video game, reports Publishers Lunch. The Google division, called Niantic Labs, will soon...
‘Island’ to partner with university centre on Tasmanian essay series
Monday, 18 March 2013
Island magazine has announced that it will publish a new essay series in partnership with the University of Tasmania’s Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society. The Tasmania Papers, co-edited by...
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