Egmont appoints Hughes as publishing director
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Egmont has announced that it has appointed Sarah Hughes as publishing director for its fiction list, reports the Bookseller. Hughes takes up the role on 3 December, having been fiction...
Pearson US gives readers early access with Early Edition
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Pearson will allow readers to access ebooks on technology before the finished book is released under a program called Early Edition, reports Publishers Weekly. ‘Readers can purchase the editions, which...
Gallagher, Carrera join Ingram in the US
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Ingram Content Group has announced the appointment of Kelly Gallagher to the role of vice president of content acquisitions. Gallagher, who is currently vice president of publishing workflow solutions at...
PEN International approves declaration on digital technologies, announces new award
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Delegates at the 78th PEN International Congress, held in Korea from 11 to 15 September, approved the PEN International Declaration on Free Expression and Digital Technologies. In a statement on...
Allely to leave PMP in 2013
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
PMP chief executive and general manager of print and distribution Richard Allely has announced that he will step down from his position in September 2013. In a statement to the Australian...
German Peace Prize to Chinese writer
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
The German Publishers and Booksellers Association has announced it will award its 2012 Peace Prize to Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, who ‘walked out on his native country and landed in...
Sainsbury’s drops Kobo, joins Waitrose in selling Nook in UK
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has announced it will launch two tablets—a seven-inch Nook HD and nine-inch Nook HD+—simultaneously in the UK and the US, and that UK supermarkets...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Helen Walsh has been fired from every job she’s ever had, until she finds her true calling as a private investigator. In Mercy Close (Marian Keyes, Michael Joseph), the PI...
In brief
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
NZ council rules out library closures after community response Auckland’s mayor Len Brown has ruled out closing two of the council’s 55 libraries after 600 members of the libraries’ communities...
RiP Eric Hobsbawm
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Eric Hobsbawm, British historian, has died aged 95. Hobsbawm is best known for three volumes, spanning the period from 1789 to 1914: The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of...
RiP Arthur Sulzberger
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Arthur 'Punch' Sulzberger, former publisher of The New York Times for three decades, has died aged 86.
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold German rights to Mr Chen’s Emporium (Deborah O’Brien) to Ullstein Verlag; and Polish rights to No Sex in the City (Randa Abdel-Fattah) through Marcin Beigaj...
2012 CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards shortlists announced
Monday, 1 October 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in Primary...
Copyright in Australia: Where to from here?
Monday, 1 October 2012
Two reports relating to the Australian copyright industries were released in August. One looks at the recent past: the economic contributions of our country’s copyright industries between 1996 and 2011....
Hurley wins ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Monday, 1 October 2012
Sue Hurley has won the 2012 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Patterns in Nature’. As reported by Bookseller+Publisher, Hurley was presented with the...
Hurley wins ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 28 September 2012
Sue Hurley has won the 2012 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Patterns in Nature’. Hurley was presented with the $5000 first place prize...
Cobby Eckermann wins Deadly Award for ‘Ruby Moonlight’
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the 2012 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her verse novel Ruby Moonlight (Magabala). This year’s Deadly Awards were announced at a special...
Rodda resigns as Auckland writers festival GM
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Anne Rodda has resigned from her position as general manager of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Rodda, who has worked for the festival since 2008,...
2012 Galley Club Awards shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Galley Club Awards for book and magazine production have been announced. Finalists have been announced in 15 categories, including three categories for sheetfed case bound...
HGE opens up Ampersand Project to all YA genres
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced that its Ampersand Project will accept manuscripts across all young adult genres this year. The publisher launched the project at the end of 2011,...
Radio National to cut Book Reading
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The ABC will cut its Book Reading program, among several cuts to the national broadcaster’s programming, reports the Australian. The newspaper, which quotes an email sent by Radio National manager...
SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference program launched
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The small press network SPUNC has launched the program for its Independent Publishers Conference. The conference, to be held at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre on 8 and 9 November, will feature...
Walmart to stop selling Kindles
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
American retail giant Walmart has announced it will no longer sell Kindle tablets and ereaders in its stores, although it will continue to sell similar devices from Apple, Google, Barnes & Noble...
New book machines to go live later this year
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
On Demand Books, producers of Espresso Book Machines, is partnering with Eastman Kodak and ReaderLink Distribution Services to improve the machines and bring them to more locations worldwide, reports Publishers Weekly. The Espresso Book Machine...
UK sales of Man Booker shortlist down on 2011
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
In the UK, sales of the titles shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize increased by 193% in the week following the shortlist announcement, but were down 57% compared to the sales of...
Brisbane awarded JC Williamson Award
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Currency Press co-founder Katherine Brisbane has won the JC Williamson Award at the 2012 Helpmann Awards. This year’s Helpmann Awards were presented at the Sydney Opera House on 24 September....
Noble to retire after 34 years at University Book Shop Dunedin
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Bill Noble is standing down from his position as manager of the University Book Shop, Dunedin, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Noble, who has managed the bookshop for 34 years, said...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
‘My point … is that the idea of the school—with authors working together towards a common aim, idea, or aesthetic—appears to be lacking, certainly in Australia, if not overseas too,...
Council endorses new Geelong Library design
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The Greater Geelong City Council in regional Victoria has endorsed a design proposed by Melbourne architects for the new Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. The new dome-shaped, five-storey building has...
Fuller’s Catherine Schulz on selecting the ‘Summer Reading Guide’
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Catherine Schulz, manager of Fullers Bookshop Hobart, is one of the group of independent booksellers around Australia who meet once a year for an intense caffeine-fuelled few days to decide...
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