‘How Tea Cosies Changed the World’ makes Diagram Prize shortlist
Friday, 22 February 2013
How Tea Cosies Changed the World by Australian author Loani Prior (Murdoch) has been shortlisted for this year’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Prior’s book is one...
Mantel to receive Bodley Medal
Friday, 22 February 2013
Hilary Mantel will receive the Bodley Medal at the Oxford Literary Festival in March, reports the BBC. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford...
Your Bookshop to open fifth store in Sydney
Friday, 22 February 2013
Your Bookshop, a chain of independent bookshops in Sydney, will open its fifth store in April. Your Bookshop co-owner Bonnie Serov told Books+Publishing that the new store will be located in the...
Hardie Grant stationery competition winner announced
Friday, 22 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced that Cate Furey is the winner of its first stationery design competition. Furey’s design features vintage illustrations with the words ‘love’, ‘note’, ‘make’ and ‘word’. The...
Random House reveals bestselling Vintage Classics for 2012
Friday, 22 February 2013
Random House has revealed its 20 bestselling Vintage Classics books for 2012. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is at the top of the list, which incorporates Vintage Classics and Vintage...
Inaugural Tokyo International Literary Festival kicks off in March
Friday, 22 February 2013
The inaugural Tokyo International Literary Festival will take place from 1-3 March. English-language writers participating in the festival include J M Coetzee, Geoff Dyer, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer and Pico Iyer....
Getting cosy at Books Plus in Bathurst
Friday, 22 February 2013
While Loani Prior's latest book How Tea Cosies Changed the World (Murdoch) has attracted the attention of the Diagram Prize for its delightfully odd title, back in 2010 Andrew Wrathall...
Germany backs out of World Book Night 2013
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Germany will not participate in World Book Night 2013, reports the Bookseller. German World Book Night co-organiser Stiftung Lesen said in a statement that ‘more time was needed to sort...
Net sales up 15% at S&S Australia in 2012; ebooks grow to 18% of sales
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Simon & Schuster Australia’s net sales were up by 15% in 2012 compared to the year before, reports managing director Lou Johnson. Johnson told Books+Publishing that sales of print books...
Bookstores file class action against Amazon, big six publishers
Thursday, 21 February 2013
In the US, three independent bookstores have filed a class action complaint against Amazon and the big six publishers that centres on the use of digital rights management (DRM) to...
Pearson to work with education technology start-ups
Thursday, 21 February 2013
In the UK, Pearson has launched Pearson Catalyst, an incubator program to help education technology start-up businesses break into the global education market, reports the Bookseller. The program will target ‘dynamic’ and...
Inaugural Stella Prize longlist announced
Thursday, 21 February 2013
The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Mazin’ Grace (Dylan Coleman, UQP) The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U) The People...
Eltham, Broun selected for OzCo Emerging Leaders Development Program
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Kate Eltham, CEO of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), and Michelle Broun, CEO of Magabala Books, are among 23 arts managers who have been selected to participate in the Australia...
US author seeks declaration that Sherlock Holmes and co are in public domain
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
US author Leslie Klinger has filed a lawsuit against the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, seeking a declaration that Conan Doyle’s famous characters of Sherlock Holmes and John H Watson are in...
TV report alleges mistreatment of Amazon workers in Germany
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
A report on German television has alleged that seasonal workers at Amazon’s warehouses in Germany have been underpaid and mistreated, reports Shelf Awareness. The report accused Amazon-appointed security firm HESS...
Shearer’s to move to temporary location in April
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, Sydney, is moving to a temporary location on 31 March as the Norton Street Palace Cinema is undergoing substantial renovations. The independent bookshop, which is located under...
Moirs Bookshop for sale
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Independent Sydney bookstore Moirs Bookshop is for sale. Rosemary Moir, who owns the independent bookstore with her husband Ian, told Books+Publishing that the couple has decided to ‘move on from...
National Young Writers’ Festival calls for artists and launches new website
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The annual National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF), which runs from 3-6 October in Newcastle, NSW, is calling for writers and artists and has launched a new website. NYWF presents writing in its broadest sense through panels,...
New sponsors for Auckland Readers & Writers Festival
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The Auckland Readers & Writers Festival has announced that BNZ Literary Awards and Craigs Investment Partners have joined the festival as sponsors. The BNZ Literary Awards, which are presented annually to...
NZ author Joy Cowley named a ‘living treasure’
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
New Zealand author Joy Cowley has been named a ‘Marlborough Living Cultural Treasure’ and will be awarded a celebratory medal at a ceremony in Blenheim on 3 April, along with...
ASA launches licensing program for digitised journal content
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the establishment of a licensing program to manage online sales of digitised works originally published in print journals. The DigiJournals program, a...
NZ government to fund export program for educational publishers
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Education New Zealand (ENZ) has announced that it will fund an export development program for educational publishers in 2013 through the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). The New Zealand government agency, which...
International Library News
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
IFLA releases new elending resources for libraries The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has released a new set of resources relating to ebooks and elending for libraries....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
‘Chick lit, rom com, women’s fiction; whatever you want to call it—these are the books that get us out of bed every day and keep us up late at night’—the...
Character concerns: Ashley Hay on ‘The Railwayman’s Wife’
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Ashley Hay’s second novel, after The Body in the Clouds, follows the lives of several characters in a NSW coastal town, including a doctor returned from the horrors of the...
Australian bookmaker launches betting market on new Bond novel
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Online gambling website sportsbet.com.au has launched a betting market on the title of the new James Bond novel, which is being written by William Boyd and will be published by...
MUP, Harlequin Escape join NetGalley
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) and Harlequin Escape are the latest local publishers to make electronic advance reading copies of their books available through NetGalley. The US-based NetGalley allows registered readers,...
Daunt: Amazon is a ‘job destroyer’
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
In the UK, Waterstones managing director James Daunt has hit out at Amazon in an interview with the Financial Times, saying that the US retailer’s ‘very business model is a...
‘Reader’s Digest’ files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The parent company of Reader’s Digest magazine has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, the equivalent of administration in Australia, reports the Australian. RDA Holding Co has made...
YALSA launches website for teen summer reading programs
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has launched the 2013 Teen Summer Reading Programs website. The website is designed as an information hub for librarians and to brainstorm and exchange ideas for...
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