Festival director Lisa Dempster’s final Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), which took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June, was its ‘most successful ever’.... Read more |
The 2012 Emerging Writers’ Festival took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June. Among the entertainment at the opening night event ‘Stories That... Read more |
Members of the Queensland literary community have expressed concern after learning that Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is one of the state’s ambassadors for the National... Read more |
In the US, judge Denny Chin has rejected Google’s motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational plaintiff and has granted the Author’s Guild... Read more |
The Australian Council for the Arts has released the results of its Booked travel fund in 2011/2012 based on publishers’ reports. Overall, the fund supported 20... Read more |
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has announced that its self-publishing platform, to be called Kobo Writing Life, will be available in English by the end... Read more |
Specialty Australian publisher R&R Publications has entered voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. Distributor Alpa Books, which previously represented the publisher, said in a statement... Read more |
Australian author Quynh Dao’s book Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir (Odyssey Books) is one of the 12 shortlisted titles in the nonfiction... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—Scribe has sold Greek rights for Pieces of Mind (Michael Corballis) to Aiora Press; and Czech rights for Future Files (Richard Watson) to Computer... Read more |
In 2006 the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet (Manny Noakes & Peter Clifton, Penguin) pushed ahead of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code (Transworld) on the bestseller... Read more |
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Continuum 8: Craftonomicon: 51st Australian National Science Fictional Convention, Melbourne: 8-11 June if:book Australia: The 24-hour Book (Australia wide):... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has developed an app for its 2012 conference, which contains the conference program, exhibitor list, speakers’ biographies, maps, alerts and more.... Read more |
‘I hope that with the growth of ebooks we start to see a renaissance in physical book publishing but before that can happen I think... Read more |
The winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Award were announced at unCONventional, the 33rd National Science Fiction Convention in Auckland, during New Zealand’s Queens Birthday... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction From under the Overcoat (Sue Orr, Vintage)... Read more |
Author Kim Scott was named the inaugural Western Australian of the Year at a ceremony on 2 June. Scott also received the Indigenous award and... Read more |
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author and record company owner, has died aged 63. Goldmark ran a business that took touring authors around San Francisco, US. She is... Read more |
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday next Monday (in all Australian states except WA and QLD), the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published... Read more |
Western Australian author Annabel Smith has been selected as one of the 11 recipients of the 2012 Creative Australia Fellowships, awarded by the Australia Council... Read more |
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival will return to Christchurch this year after the previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and a scaled-down version... Read more |
Penguin Group Australia has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that a number of staff members have recently been made redundant. Penguin Group Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne told... Read more |
A novel about a man with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome who is looking for the perfect partner has won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for... Read more |
After seven months without a dedicated new bookstore, Wollongong in NSW will soon see the return of Dymocks to its city centre. Dymocks is set to open a... Read more |
Ebook distributor OverDrive has announced that it will launch a new web browser-based ereading platform later this year, based on the HTML5 ereading technology developed... Read more |
American author Madeline Miller has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury). Miller was presented with... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced it is ‘taking radical steps to secure its future in the face of dramatic changes in the book industry’. The publisher... Read more |
Following the news that the ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ list will be all-Australian for the first time this year, Get Reading! has revealed... Read more |
The winners of the inaugural Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced. The overall prize, worth $4000, was... Read more |
OPUS Group has announced a new strategic alliance with Philippines-based content management company MTC which will involve OPUS expanding the range of digital services it offers,... Read more |
Independent Sydney bookstore Better Read Than Dead has been sold to Parkstone Investments, a private company led by businessman and arts patron Pat Corrigan. Derek... Read more |
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has confirmed Greens Senator Bob Brown will be a keynote speaker at this year’s event. Brown, who recently stepped down... Read more |
Writing Australia has announced a new regional residency program. The Writing Australia Places program offers four-week regional writing residencies in Lake St Clair and Bruny... Read more |
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Program has been launched and is available on the website. Tickets are also now available for purchase. Authors featured... Read more |
‘In the end, it took Joel [Naoum] and I all of about two minutes to decide that all of my ebook-only titles would be sold... Read more |
Ebook sales now account for six percent of Bloomsbury’s worldwide sales and grew by 159% in the financial year ending 29 February 2012, the publisher... Read more |
Amazon and US book distributor Independent Publishers Group (IPG) have reached a settlement in the ebook sales dispute which began in February, reports the Bookseller.... Read more |
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum has announced its titles will be released without digital rights management (DRM) protection by August. ‘We feel strongly that Momentum’s goal... Read more |
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award, have been... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the... Read more |
The semi-finalists for Cosmopolitan‘s Fun Fearless Female Awards have been announced and voting is now open. The Author category includes: Lili Wilkinson (Love-shy, A&U), Loretta Hill... Read more |
Online bookseller Booktopia has been named as one of the NSW finalists for the People’s Choice Award in this year’s Telstra Business Awards. Booktopia is... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved a service agreement between the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and Viscopy Limited, the not-for-profit rights management... Read more |
Applications are now open for the Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships initiative, funded by the Readings Foundation. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the fellowships grant... Read more |
Details for the 2013 IPEd National Editors Conference have been announced. The biennial conference will be held in Fremantle, WA, from 10-12 April 2013, and... Read more |
The 2012 Bridgetown Words in the Valley Writers Festival in south-west Western Australia will run from 28-29 July with a focus on ‘crime and intrigue’.... Read more |
The Book Grocer in Kingston, ACT has moved a few doors down from its old store to take up bigger premises. The new store is... Read more |
The program for the 2012 Reality Bites Literary Festival in Cooroy on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been announced. The festival, which focuses on literary nonfiction,... Read more |
Readings has published Melbourne artist Bruno Leti’s Workbook 15 in a limited edition of 200 copies. The book gives readers an insight into ‘the creative... Read more |
The Red Room Company, a not-for-profit company which publishes new Australian poetry, has released an app called ‘The Disappearing’. The free app allows users to... Read more |
The annual Light in Winter Festival at Melbourne’s Federation Square will this year run an inaugural International Festival of Literature, Ideas and Translation on 15-17 June.... Read more |
The program for the 2012 Townsville Literary Festival, which runs from 4-12 June, has been launched. Authors, illustrators and other presenters featured at this year’s... Read more |
Bowker has released its annual report on US print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books in Print database. Based on figures from US publishers,... Read more |
Hachette’s Headline division will launch a new literary imprint called Tinder Press in 2013, reports the Bookseller. The imprint plans to publish between 10 and... Read more |
In the US, Penguin and Macmillan have formally responded to the Department of Justice (DOJ) anti-trust lawsuit, rejecting claims that they conspired with other publishers... Read more |
Ingram Content Group president and CEO Skip Prichard will leave his position on 8 June and chairman John Ingram will take over as CEO. Prichard... Read more |
In the US, Hachette has launched a Facebook application designed to allow users to share book excerpts of upcoming titles. The publisher and its authors... Read more |
NLA hosts ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’ On 17 June the National Library of Australia will host a special event called ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’, which... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has advised subscribers to its scholarly journal, the Australian Library Journal, that their 2012/2013 ALIA membership year renewals will... Read more |
A refurbished library was reopened at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University (CQU) on 6 June by Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education,... Read more |
National and State Libraries Australasia, the umbrella body for the major libraries in the region, has released its new four-year strategic plan. The plan extends... Read more |
Instead of running its annual mash-up competition, this year ‘Mix and Mash’, a site run by DigitalNZ, will help organisations and communities in New Zealand run... Read more |
Three awards designed to recognise the work of historians in increasing knowledge of Queensland history have been announced at the State Library of Queensland during... Read more |
From May 27- June 3 several libraries across the country are celebrating National Reconciliation Week, which aims to build respectful, trusting and positive relationships between... Read more |
Several schools are scrapping all their physical books in favour of creating digital libraries. According to The Australian, Henley High School in Adelaide donated its... Read more |
Senior US librarian charged with forgery The incoming Oregon state librarian, appointed last October, abruptly resigned last December after being investigated and charged with second-degree... Read more |
The National Library of Australia celebrated what would have been Patrick White’s 100th birthday on 28 May with a party featuring music, cake and special... Read more |
Booksellers Fiona Stager, Catherine Schulz and Heather Dyer offer their thoughts on the recent wave of branded classics, and the impact of price, design and... Read more |
Garth Nix talks to Andrea Hanke about the tie-in game for his latest novel A Confusion of Princes, admitting to having called it ‘the most expensive and... Read more |
Aden wakes up in a blood-filled bathtub in a strange place. He knows he has killed himself, but remembers only fragments of his life. As... Read more |
You may know of Susan Johnson for her brave memoir of motherhood, A Better Woman, or her novel about writer Charmian Clift, The Broken Book,... Read more |
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Publisher: Hammersmith Press ISBN Prefix:978178161 and 978190514 Old distributor: N/A New distributor:John Reed Books Changeover Date: 06/06/12 URL: http://www.hammersmithbooks.co.uk/
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At the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), current board member Mary Masters will take over the role of chair at the next board meeting. Current chair... Read more |
June Copyediting Essentials: A Practical Approach to Developing and Refining Your Copyediting Skills Melbourne only. Hurry, only a few spots still available. Please note new... Read more |
June Copyediting Essentials: A Practical Approach to Developing and Refining Your Copyediting Skills Melbourne only. Expressions of interest or registrations required by Thursday 31 May.... Read more |
HarperCollins Publishers Australia is delighted to congratulate Mary Victoria on winning the 2012 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel for Samiha’s Song (9780732290993). Congratulations... Read more |
Entries for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012 and $30,000 Best Writing Award 2012 are open. The entry form is available at www.melbourneprize.org http://www.melbourneprize.org/ ... Read more |
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