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B&N announces additional UK retail partners 

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Following the announcement that it will partner with department store chain John Lewis to sell Nook devices in the UK from October, Barnes & Noble has announced that UK retailers...

Tesco buys Mobcast for £4.5 million 

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
UK supermarket chain Tesco has acquired ebook platform Mobcast for £4.5 million (A$6.9 million), reports the Bookseller. Mobcast was established in 2007 and currently offers 130,000 ebooks. The acquisition follows...

‘Guardian’ First Book Award 2012 longlist announced 

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Guardian First Book Award has been announced. This year’s longlist features 11 titles: seven fiction titles and four nonfiction titles. The winner of this year’s...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
‘As we rush head on into Indigenous Literacy Day I'm quietly wishing that 1% of all Australians everywhere will stop to swap a book and donate a gold coin’—Karen Williams,...

Heiss wins Vic Prem’s award for Indigenous Writing

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Anita Heiss has won this year’s $20,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her memoir on identity Am I Black Enough for You? (Random House). The award was...

2012 Davitt Awards winners announced

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
The winners of the 2012 Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories...

Rights round up 

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex has sold Macedonian translation rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus) to ArsLamina. Children’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Taiwanese rights to Looking for Rex (Jan...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Andy Griffiths’ The 26-storey Treehouse (Pan), about a treehouse that includes an anti-gravity chamber, a mud-fighting arena and a dodgem car rink, is first on the fastest movers chart and seventh...

Robinsons Bookshop to open store at Chadstone

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Independent Melbourne bookstore Robinsons Bookshop will open a third store next month. Owner Suzanne Horman told Bookseller+Publisher that the new store will open in Chadstone Shopping Centre in early October. Horman bought...

‘Man-Made World’ wins 2012 John Button Prize

Monday, 3 September 2012
Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Black Inc.), has won this year’s John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics. Charlton, who receives...

2012 Australian Centre Literary Awards winners announced

Monday, 3 September 2012
The winners of this year’s cultural awards from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 1 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. The...

‘Luther: The Calling’ wins Ngaio Marsh Award 

Monday, 3 September 2012
Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross (S&S) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction, presented during the 2012 Christchurch Writers Festival. Cross’ novel, the first...

New readers’ festival for Canberra 

Monday, 3 September 2012
The inaugural Canberra Readers’ Festival will be held on 22 September. The festival is being organised by Libraries ACT and is supported by the Canberra Theatre Centre, which will host...

RiP Peter Evans 

Monday, 3 September 2012
Peter Evans, author and journalist, has died aged 78. Evans’ work was published in many newspapers and magazines and he co-authored Goodbye Baby & Amen (1969) and wrote several books including Ari...

In Brief 

Monday, 3 September 2012
Brisbane agriculture, fisheries and forestry library to close The Queensland Government has announced that the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Library in Brisbane will close, reports the ABC. Minister...

2012 Ned Kelly Awards winners announced

Thursday, 30 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 29 August. Pig Boy by J C Burke (Woolshed Press) won the best...

Pearson and Penguin to move in September 

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Pearson and Penguin will move to their new premises at 707 Collins Street, Melbourne in Melbourne's Docklands precinct on 17 September. Pearson Australia currently has offices in Port Melbourne, in...

Harper launches digital publishing business

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Journalist and editor Charlotte Harper has launched a new digital-first publishing business called Editia. Editia (pronounced ‘edeesha’) will focus on works of long-form journalism and short nonfiction between 10,000 and...

Screen Australia funds book-to-film adaptations 

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Screen Australia has announced 'development support' funding for several book-to-film adaptations, which are among 23 projects that will receive a total of $700,000. Among the funding recipients is a film adaptation of Tim...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
‘Australian literature doesn’t need saving or preserving—what it needs are partisans, contrarians and heretics’—writer and lecturer Emmett Stinson responds to Jacob Silverman’s article in Slate magazine with a critique of Australia’s literary ‘consensus culture’

 

 

 

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