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Harlequin to launch new contemporary romance imprint

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Harlequin will launch a new contemporary romance imprint in the US next year called Kiss, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint, which Harlequin describes as ‘fun, flirty and sensual romances’, will...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
‘The main reason we wanted to try it was essentially to see what would happen—an experiment’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum in the Sydney Morning Herald, explaining why the Pan Macmillan imprint...

In Brief

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
New Williamstown Library open A new library in Williamstown in Melbourne’s west was officially opened in September. The $8.1 million facility was funded by the Hobsons Bay City Council and...

Kneen’s book banned by Apple iBookstore

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Apple has removed Krissy Kneen’s erotic fiction novel Triptych (Text) from the iBookstore. Kneen told Bookseller+Publisher that Text received an email from iBookstore Publisher Support informing the publisher that the book 'has been ticketed for having...

International Library News

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Libraries own ebooks, says Random House The issue of library ebook ownership is receiving renewed attention after Random House in the US reiterated its position this week that libraries own...

New role for Exisle owner

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Exisle Publishing owner Benny St John Thomas has stepped down as sales and marketing director to focus on the publisher’s rights sales, taking on the role of rights director in...

‘Kill the Morans’ recalled in Victoria

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Kill the Morans: The Real Story of the Moran Crime Crew by Bert Wrout and Brett Quine (Five Mile Press), which was due to be released on 22 October, has been...

Patrick White: best in literature for 2012

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The Arts Issue of The Monthly (ed by Paul Grabowsky) has selected Patrick White as the best in literature for the magazine’s feature ‘The best of Australian art 2012’. ‘Two lost books...

Rakuten to launch online stores in Australia

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Kobo parent company Rakuten has announced plans to open new online stores in Australia and India, reports Inside Retail Asia. The Japanese online retailer said the new businesses are part...

Canadian Booksellers Association votes to become a division of retail council rather than dissolve

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The financially troubled Canadian Booksellers Association has decided at its annual general meeting to ‘explore becoming a division’ of the country’s retail council after members were asked to vote on...

Microsoft unveils Surface tablet prices

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Microsoft has announced its new tablet computer, to be called Surface, will be priced at US$499 in the US. ‘The least expensive of its Surface tablets matches the entry-level price...

Romance imprint launches Facebook app

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
In the US, HarperCollins romance imprint Avon Books has announced the launch of a Facebook app that ‘targets the romance reader, offering an extensive list of sample excerpts from Avon...

UK secondhand bookseller launches Australian website

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
UK-based secondhand bookseller World of Books has launched an Australian website. World of Books Australia officially launched on 22 October. The business sources secondhand books from charities in the UK...

Hill of Content celebrates 90th birthday

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Melbourne’s Hill of Content Bookshop celebrated its 90th birthday on 18 October with a reception for staff, customers and friends. The Bourke Street bookshop was established by A H Spencer...

Paid content available from iBookstore in NZ

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Apple has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that titles from Harlequin, HarperCollins and Hachette New Zealand are now available on the Apple iBookstore in New Zealand. It has been widely reported today...

GenreCon program announced

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)’s GenreCon, a conference for Australian genre writers running from 2-4 November at Rydges Paramatta in NSW, has announced its program. GenreCon is aimed at Australian writers...

UK Bridport Prize shortlists annnounced

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The Bridport Prize, the UK writing competition open to all nationalities, has announced its shortlists. Categories include short story, poetry and flash fiction. As reported by Bookseller+Publisher, Australian and New Zealand...

BlackWords fifth birthday and symposium

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
AustLit’s database BlackWords: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers celebrated its fifth birthday at the Avid Reader bookshop with author readings on 19 October. The BlackWords Symposium was also held the...

CWA Daggers announced

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The winners of the final three Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers were revealed at a ceremony in London on 18 October. The CWA Gold Dagger was awarded to Gene Kerrigan for...

Hodder & Stoughton to split into two publishing divisions

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
British publisher Hodder & Stoughton is splitting into two distinct publishing divisions, reports Publishers Weekly. The publisher, which is owned by Hachette, will be divided into John Murray Press, which...

Booktopia expands office, distribution centre

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Online bookseller Booktopia has announced that it has added another 500sqm to its premises in Lane Cove in Sydney, bringing its office and distribution centre spaces to a combined total...

RiP Paul Kurtz

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Paul Kurtz, US philosopher and founder of Prometheus Books, has died aged 86. Kurtz wrote over 50 books and was publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. He edited two large...

Innovation award for NLA’s Trove repository

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Trove digital repository has won the Innovation category in the 2012 Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs). The awards are presented annually by...

Rights round-up

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Acquisitions Fiction—Viking has acquired world rights, excluding translation rights in France and Germany, to The Separation (Dinah Jefferies) through Caroline Hardman at Hardman Swainson. Simon & Schuster has acquired The...

Vision Australia audiobooks now available through Wavesound

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Audiobook titles previously published by Vision Australia are now available to Australian public libraries through audiobook publisher and distributor Wavesound. A spokesperson for Vision Australia told Bookseller+Publisher that Vision Australia...

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