Magabala announces partnership with Ubud writers festival
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Magabala Books has announced a new partnership with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, which will involve a Magabala author participating in the writers festival each year....
Norman Lindsay Festival a success
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The annual Norman Lindsay Festival took place on Sunday 25 March at the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge, New South Wales. Named in honour of the author/illustrator of children's classic...
Society of Editors (Vic) is renamed Editors Victoria
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Society of Editors (Vic) has changed its name to Editors Victoria. Editors Victoria established a Facebook page on 3 March and has launched a new website: www.editorsvictoria.org
NLA and major international libraries to implement RDA cataloguing
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The National Library of Australia is joining other major libraries across the world in adopting a new standard for cataloguing in the first quarter of 2013. Resource Description and Access...
NLA acquires rare globes
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The National Library of Australia has acquired two pairs of rare floor globes from a New York gallery. The two pairs of terrestrial and celestial globes were produced between 1799...
ABC looks for ’10 Aussie Books to Read Before You Die’
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club is calling for people to vote for their favourite Australian books to create an ultimate reading list. To coincide with the National Year of...
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...
Harvard objects to high prices of academic journal subscriptions
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Harvard University, one of the world’s richest academic institutions, has announced it can no longer afford academic journal subscriptions, advising staff to support open-access publishing instead, by submitting work to Digital...
Moynahan to retire from HarperCollins ANZ; Kellow appointed CEO
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced CEO Michael Moynahan will retire from the company at the end of this month. The publisher said in a statement that James Kellow,...
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...
The ‘Hoopla’, ‘Conversation’ launch online book columns
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Two new online book columns have recently launched. The Conversation has started talking books with a column by Bronwyn Lea titled ‘The Mind Field’. Lea is a senior lecturer in...
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...
Garth Nix on the online game behind his book ‘A Confusion of Princes’
Monday, 30 April 2012
As children’s publishers explore new digital formats and online marketing tools, one of the possibilities being raised is the tie-in game. But is this likely to be a successful strategy?...
Interview with Jackie French on ‘Pennies for Hitler’ and ‘Dingo: The Dog Who Conqured a Continent’
Monday, 30 April 2012
Jackie French has two very different historical novels for younger readers due out in the coming months. She spoke to Rebecca Butterworth and Hilary Adams I read that Hitler’s Daughter...
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...
Interview with Frank Bongiorno on ‘The Sex Lives of Australians’
Monday, 30 April 2012
Frank Bongiorno has written a comprehensive history of sex in Australia. He spoke to Kate Sunners. How important do you think a study of Australia’s sexual history is in understanding...
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...
Publishers share their most-anticipated titles for 2012: Picture books
Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Picture Books ‘Unforgotten is a breathtakingly beautiful book that...
Publishers share their most-anticipated titles for 2012: Young readers
Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Young readers Are ninjas the next big thing in...
Publishers share their most-anticipated titles for 2012: Young adult
Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Young adult ‘Don’t write off paranormal fantasy just yet’...
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,...
Meet Sonia Palmisano, Bloomsbury Australia’s children’s marketing and publicity manager
Monday, 30 April 2012
While some Aussies pour pints, Sonia Palmisano sold children’s books as she backpacked her way around the world. Bloomsbury Australia’s children’s marketing and publicity manager shares her career journey. I...
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...
Interview with Australia’s children’s laureates: Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor
Friday, 27 April 2012
Australia’s inaugural children’s laureates Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are looking forward to their two-year literary adventure. They spoke to Lucy Stewart. Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are...
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...
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