RiP Pamela Lofts
Monday, 9 July 2012
Pamela Lofts, children’s book illustrator and visual artist, has died. Lofts illustrated books such as Mem Fox’s Koala Lou and Hunwick’s Egg, and Marcia Vaughan’s Wombat Stew.
PANZ Book Design Awards 2012 winners announced
Friday, 6 July 2012
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 5 July. The winning titles are: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by...
‘Foal’s Bread’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Mears was announced as the winner of this year’s award on 4 July during the...
2011 WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Thursday, 5 July 2012
The shortlists for the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Books Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Nonfiction ($15,000) 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and...
Interview with Andrew Croome on ‘Midnight Empire’
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Andrew Croome’s second novel Midnight Empire (A&U, September), following the 2008 Vogel Award-winning, Document Z, is a contemporary political thriller set against a backdrop of Las Vegas’ professional poker scene...
On tour: Meet the author Sloane Crosley
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d be Cake (Penguin) and more recently, How Did You Get This Number (Portobello). She is a guest of the Melbourne...
Interview with Toni Jordan on ‘Nine Days’
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
With two romantic comedies under her belt, Toni Jordan tackles the family saga in her latest book Nine Days (Text, September). She spoke to reviewer Chris Harrington. The nine days...
Kobo to launch in Japan
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Kobo will launch a localised ereader and website in Japan on 19 July. CEO Mike Serbinis travelled to Japan last week to sell the product to the Japanese market. A...
European Commission backs tax reduction on ebooks
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
European Commission (EC) vice-president Neelie Kroes has backed a call by European publishing chiefs for the rate of value-added tax (VAT) on ebooks to be reduced. Publishing chiefs representing Penguin,...
Discovery and the art of bookselling
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Australian author and literary agent Virginia Lloyd travelled to Book Expo America last month, where everyone was talking about ‘the problem of discovery’. The more some things change in book...
Arts Victoria 2012-13 funding applications open amid concerns about funding cuts
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Victorian Government has announced that applications are now open for Arts Victoria’s 2012-13 arts funding programs. Premier and Arts Minister Ted Baillieu said on 29 June that applications are...
No change for HarperCollins Australia, New Zealand in News Corp split
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it will be business as usual at the publisher following the division of News Corporation's publishing and entertainment assets. A...
Literature Centre enters into $600,000 partnership with BHP Billiton
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Literature Centre in Fremantle has entered into a new partnership with BHP Billiton which will involve the mining company investing $600,000 in the centre over three years. The Literature Centre...
Mildura Writers’ Festival program announced
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The program for the 2012 Mildura Writers’ festival has been announced. This year’s festival will run from 19-22 July and continues the festival’s established tradition of events which showcase the...
Changes to SWF board announced
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced a number of changes to its board following this year’s festival in May. Annette Shun Wah, Peter FitzSimons and Tim Peach have finished...
Harrison wins architecture award
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Stuart Harrison has won the 2012 National Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for his book Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn't Normally Become A House (Thames and...
SPUNC seeking presentations for Independent Publishers’ Conference
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In the lead up to its inaugural Independent Publishers’ Conference in November, the Small Press Network (SPUNC) is seeking presentations for the academic day of the conference on the topic of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
‘It will take a long time for the new markets that are emerging to make up for the markets that we are losing’—Andrew Wilkins, publisher of Wilkins Farago, speaking on...
Australia among first countries to receive new Google tablet
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Australia will be one of the first countries to receive the new Google tablet this month, reports the Bookseller. The Nexus 7—Google’s seven-inch tablet to rival Amazon’s Fire, which is...
Simon & Schuster to add QR codes to all US books
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Simon & Schuster, parent company of Simon & Schuster Australia, has announced that it will soon be putting QR codes on every print book it publishes in the US. The...
Perth retailers able to trade on Sundays from August
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
All retailers across the metropolitan Perth area will be able to trade on Sundays from 26 August as a result of introduced changes to the state’s retail trading regulations by...
NZ guide to export markets available
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The New Zealand Government’s Trade and Enterprise department has released a new guide to educational book publishing in overseas markets. The guide provides information about the Canadian, Chinese, German, UK...
Digital Publishing New Zealand to wind up services
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Digital Publishing New Zealand (DPNZ), the industry-based initiative which offered digital conversions for independent publishers and authors, will cease offering its services before the end of this year. In a...
Screen Australia funding for book-related apps
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Screen Australia has announced funding for a number of apps, several of which are based on books. Bottersnikes and Gumbles ‘brings to life the hilarious animated stories about the evil...
Sage launches ebookstore
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
In the UK, academic publisher Sage is selling more than 2500 titles from its own ebookstore, reports the Bookseller. The store, which officially launched in June, is part of the...
HMH emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has emerged from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after receiving court approval for its restructuring plan last month, reports Publishers Weekly. As previously reported by...
Interview with Majok Tulba and Ben Ball on ‘Beneath the Darkening Sky’
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Beneath the Darkening Sky is a novel by 27-year-old Australian-Sudanese writer Majok Tulba, which imagines the life of a child soldier in Sudan (see review here). It’s the story of...
Hinkler establishes dedicated trade sales team
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Hinkler Books is in the process of establishing a new sales team to focus on trade bookshops. The publisher announced this week that Shaun Arthurson, previously key account manager at...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Wicked Business (Janet Evanovich, Hachette), the second book in the ‘Wicked’ spin-off series, based on a character from the Stephanie Plum ‘Between-the-Numbers’ novels, is first on the highest new entries...
Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The inaugural Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (SHWF) will be held in Bowral, NSW on 21-22 July. Authors speaking at the festival include Frank Moorhouse, Kirsten Tranter, Kate Forsyth, Sue Woolfe,...
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