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Hachette UK to sell ebooks direct 

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Hachette UK will sell ebooks direct through its websites for the first time, reports the Bookseller. The ebooks will be available ‘in a couple of months’ via a series of new corporate websites...

Free Kobo Touch for online Rakutan consumers 

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Ereading service provider Kobo is planning on giving away its Kobo Touch ereader to those who buy a 'data communication device' from Rakutan's website, reports Digital Book World. Rakutan, a Japanese shopping...

Mary Martin Bookshop in liquidation

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
The Mary Martin Bookshop in Adelaide has been placed into voluntary liquidation. Liquidators Clifton Hall was appointed to the company on Friday 21 September. The store, which is located on...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
In Delusion in Death (Hachette), J D Robb’s latest book in the ‘In Death’ series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a mass murder that has occurred at an after-work happy-hour bar...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Sales Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed German-language rights in Button Boy (Rebecca Young & Sue deGennaro); and the dramatic rights in the following picture books: The Very Cranky Bear, The Very Itchy Bear, The...

New research shows value of Queensland public libraries

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
New research commissioned by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has found that every $100 invested in Queensland public libraries by state and local governments during 2010-2011 delivered $230 of value to local...

In brief 

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Renovated Torquay Library reopens The Torquay Library in regional Victoria reopened on 22 September after being closed for renovations for four weeks. According to a statement from the Geelong Regional...

International Library News 

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Macmillan US developing ebook lending pilot program In the US, Macmillan has said that it is working on a pilot program for ebook lending in libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

International projects in the works for Clunes

Monday, 24 September 2012
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...

Creative Clunes announces international events 

Monday, 24 September 2012
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...

Ryding to leave NSW Writers’ Centre 

Monday, 24 September 2012
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that executive director David Ryding is leaving the centre to join the Australia Council for the Arts in the role of program...

RiP Robert Barrett 

Monday, 24 September 2012
Robert G Barrett, contemporary Australian writer best known for his ‘Les Norton’ crime novels and his first book, a collection of short stories entitled You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids...

Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 longlist announced

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo, Scribe) One on One...

HarperVoyager to accept unsolicited manuscripts in October 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
HarperCollins’ science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK and the US for two weeks in October. As...

Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction longlist announced 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. To view the longlisted titles, see the Bookseller+Publisher website here. The winner of this...

National Young Writers Festival program launched 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The program for this year's National Young Writers Festival, part of the This is Not Art (TiNA) festival in Newscastle, has been launched. The program, which is available online here,...

Ashton Wylie award winner announced 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The God Franchise: A Theory of Everything (Alan Dawe, Life Magic Publishing) is the winner of this year’s Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award in New Zealand. The award recognises...

LBF director steps down 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Alistair Burtenshaw is stepping down from his position as director of the London Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Burtenshaw is also stepping down from the role of director of books...

Kobo partners with Livraria Cultura in Brazil 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Kobo has confirmed that it has formed a partnership with Brazilian bookstore chain Livraria Cultura, reports Digital Book World. According to a statement from the ebook retail platform provider, Kobo...

Read Without Paper ebookstore ‘discontinued’ 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Campion Education’s ebookstore Read Without Paper is no longer operating. A statement on the Read Without Paper website said ‘as of September 1, 2012, the Read Without Paper website has...

Authors Guild v Google postponed indefinitely 

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The schedule of the court case between the US Authors Guild and Google, which had had oral arguments scheduled for 4 December, has been postponed indefinitely after the Authors Guild...

 

 

 

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