Oz publishers discuss future of publishing at Macquarie Uni
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The Future of Writing Symposium took place at Sydney’s Macquarie University on 13-14 November. The second day, which focussed on the future of publishing, featured several presentations by Australian publishers. In a...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
‘It’s not a question of clout—more of practicalities. It means that we’ll have more chance of overcoming the ANZ rights-splitting problem that I and other Australian publishers have been complaining...
Booktopia launches new website
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Online bookseller Booktopia has launched a new website with a redesigned Booktopia logo. Booktopia CEO Tony Nash told Bookseller+Publisher that Booktopia has received ‘amazing, humbling and inspiring’ feedback from customers...
Rankin and Greenwood top bestsellers at relocated Crime and Justice Festival
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The 2012 Crime and Justice Festival was held over the weekend in its new home on Collins St, Melbourne, having previously been located at Abbottsford convent. Festival organiser Mary Dalmau...
ABA announces Vic Sales Rep of the Year
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Amanda Wildsmith from Hardie Grant and Anthony Pizzinga from Random House were named joint winners of Victorian Sales Rep of the Year Award at the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Victorian branch Christmas Party last night. This...
In brief
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
SLV launches dome anniversary celebrations The State Library of Victoria has officially launched a year-long celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the library’s iconic dome, which was opened on...
International Library News
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Penguin expands US ebook library lending In the US, Penguin will launch a new ebook library lending pilot program with Baker & Taylor this year, reports the New York Times....
RiP Ian Pearce
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Ian Pearce, director and floor manager of Fullers Bookshop from the mid-1950s until 1982, has died in Hobart aged 90.
‘Record’ sales for Click Frenzy booksellers despite website failure
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Online booksellers participating in the Click Frenzy 24-hour sales event have reported record sales, despite the website’s failure. The Click Frenzy website, which was intended to direct customers to online...
2012 COOL Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: The Terrible Plop (Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner, Viking) Fiction...
Scribe to establish UK office in 2013
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Independent Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications has announced that it will expand to the UK next year. Scribe said in a statement that it will establish an office in the UK...
Fishpond pulls out of Nielsen BookScan panels
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
New Zealand-based online retailer Fishpond has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it is no longer participating in Nielsen BookScan panels in Australia and New Zealand. Fishpond promotions manager Dean Oelofse told...
ILF trivia night raises more than $14,500
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
More than $14,500 was raised for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) at a trivia night in Sydney on 14 November. ILF executive director Karen Williams told Bookseller+Publisher that more than $7000...
Kershaw wins Blake Poetry Prize for ‘Altar Rock’
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Western Australian poet Graham Kershaw has won the fifth Blake Poetry Prize for his poem 'Altar Rock', which addresses the mixed inheritance of white settlement in the Murchison district of...
Goldsworthy to examine Australian review culture in ‘ABR’ fellowship
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that Kerryn Goldsworthy will be the ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellow, and will ‘write a feature article on the current state of book reviewing...
Cartland wins inaugural Overland Victoria University prize
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Literary journal Overland has announced that Tara Cartland’s story ‘Frank O’Hara’s Animals’ is the winner of the inaugural $6000 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers....
Wood leaves Kobo UK
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that Kobo UK country manager Phil Wood, who joined Kobo in March 2012, has left the company. Kobo’s executive vice president (EVP) and general manager...
‘Seating Arrangements’ wins 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Maggie Shipstead has won the £30,000 (A$45,800) 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel Seating Arrangements. The Guardian reports that Shipstead was one of novelist Zadie Smith’s first students...
Keele to leave Australia Council
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that CEO Kathy Keele will step down from her role at the end of the year. The Australia Council said in a...
Industry responses to Dattner’s open letter on workplace flexibility
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Several weeks ago we published an open letter to the publishing industry from Sleepers Publishing creative director and Small Press Network general manager Zoe Dattner. In it, Dattner calls for...
Stonnington Literary Festival
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The inaugural Stonnington Literary Festival [untitled] ran from 15-18 November in the City of Stonnington in Melbourne. Author Shane Maloney launched the festival at Prahran Library with stories based on...
2012 KOALA winners announced
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: Fearless in Love (Colin Thompson, illus by Sarah Davis, ABC Books) Fiction...
Neil takes on Asia Pacific responsibilities for Kobo
Monday, 19 November 2012
Kobo’s Malcolm Neil has taken on responsibility for the ebook provider’s vendor relations in the Asia Pacific region. Neil is now Kobo director of vendor relations for the Asia Pacific,...
RiP Boris Strugatsky
Monday, 19 November 2012
Russian science-fiction writer Boris Strugatsky has died, aged 79. Strugatsky wrote 27 novels with his late brother Arkady, as well as two novels on his own, Search for Designation or...
Rights round-up
Monday, 19 November 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world rights (excluding ANZ) to On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil; first English translation by Simon Leys) to The New York Review...
Bill to scrap library fees defeated in NZ Parliament
Monday, 19 November 2012
A private members’ bill that sought to scrap borrowing fees in New Zealand public libraries was defeated in its first hearing in the New Zealand parliament earlier this month. The...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 19 November 2012
Cookbooks dominate the top end of the bestsellers chart and fastest movers charts this week with Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and Donna Hay’s Fresh...
Lohrey wins 2012 Patrick White Award
Friday, 16 November 2012
Amanda Lohrey is the winner of the 2012 Patrick White Literary Award. Lohrey was presented with the award in Sydney on 16 November. This year’s award is worth $23,000, up from...
Melbourne booksellers, library launch ‘Readers’ Walk’ project
Friday, 16 November 2012
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock and the Melbourne Athenaeum Library have joined forces to launch a new initiative in Collins Street, Melbourne, called the Readers’ Walk. Described as ‘an...
‘High level of positivity’ at 2012 ACBA Conference; ACBA, APA Awards announced
Friday, 16 November 2012
Approximately 100 booksellers and publishers attended this year’s Australian Campus Booksellers (ACBA) Conference in Brisbane from 13-16 November. ACBA president and general manager of Vic Books in Wellington, New Zealand, Juliet...
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