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City of Sydney’s book amnesty a success 

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
City of Sydney’s first ever month-long book amnesty has resulted in thousands of borrowers returning their books, renewing library cards or signing up as new members. People who emailed, phoned...

NT History Book Award 2012 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia (Anthony Cooper, UNSW Press)...

New bookstores open 

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
A new Dymocks bookstore will open this week at Charlestown Square Shopping Centre in Charlestown, New South Wales. Dymocks loyalty and marketing manager Elain Richards told Bookseller+Publisher the store is 234.3 sqm...

Currency Press author wins Max Afford Award 

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Currency Press author Declan Greene has won the 2012 Max Afford Playwrights’ Award. Greene was awarded the prize for his script Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore P-rnography. Two of Greene’s other...

Introducing Australia’s niche genre publishers 

Monday, 30 April 2012
What do Kerry Greenwood, Juliet Marillier, Margo Lanagan and Will Elliott have in common? They’ve all been published by some of Australia’s niche genre fiction publishers. Sanna Nyblad rounds up...

Trent Jamieson on genre bookselling 

Monday, 30 April 2012
Booksellers need to be more adventurous with their genre sections, writes fantasy author and bookseller Trent Jamieson. As booksellers we need to tend our genre sections, be aware of what...

William Kostakis on digital self-publishing 

Monday, 30 April 2012
YA author William Kostakis tries his hand at digital self-publishing. In 2010 my YA novel Loathing Lola was chosen as part of the Get Reading! campaign. Part-way through the campaign,...

RiP Ernest Callenbach 

Monday, 30 April 2012
Ernest Callenbach, an American film scholar and environmentalist who wrote about an ecologically sustainable society in 1976 in the novel Ecotopia, has died aged 83.

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 30 April 2012
At the age of 16, Abigail Lowery witnesses a shocking mafia murder that forces her to flee her old life and identity for good. Fifteen years later, she’s still hiding...

Reviews: June 2012

Friday, 27 April 2012
Fiction The Daughters of Mars (Tom Keneally, Vintage, June) A sprawling saga, The Daughters of Mars is based on journals kept by Australian nursing sisters who laboured in claustrophobic hospital...

British Library acquires earliest intact European book 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The British Library has acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a seventh-century manuscript believed to be the earliest intact European book, for £9 million (A$14million). The money was raised during the largest fundraising...

CourseSmart may expand offering to include trade titles 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
American etextbook platform CourseSmart has announced that while its focus remains core textbooks, it is looking to expand into trade titles soon, in the UK and the US. The platform, which is owned by publishers Pearson, Cengage,...

‘The Slap’ nominated for BAFTA 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Slap, the television adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel of the same name (A&U), has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in the...

Timbuktu librarians hide manuscripts from rebels 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
According to Reuters the desert trading town of Timbuktu has been overrun with rebels from the Tuareg militia since 1 April, prompting librarians, scholars and citizens to hide away thousands...

Amazon adds in-app purchasing capability to app store 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Amazon has added in-app purchasing software to its app store, with Andriod app users now able to make purchases within applications sold in the Android Market, reports Bloomberg. The feature,...

Tor/Forge ebooks to go DRM-free 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tom Doherty Associates, publisher of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape and Tor Teen imprints and subsidiary of Macmillan US, has announced that by July, its entire list of ebooks will be...

Brooks on Chautauqua shortlist 

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Fourth Estate) was shortlisted for the first Chautauqua Prize. Sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution, NY, the prize, ‘celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction...

 

 

 

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