‘It is not clear that prices paid by Australians for ebooks are consistently higher than prices paid by people in other countries, particularly once Australia’s... Read more |
Australia Post has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it is the logistics partner for the new local outlet for international shopping service Tarazz. As reported by... Read more |
Andrew McDonald will leave the position of online manager at Readings and join OverDrive Australia as business development consultant at the start of September. McDonald... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing has been announced. The titles shortlisted in the full-length book categories are: True crime... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Israeli rights fo Nine Days (Toni Jordan); Dutch rights for The Boy Who Loved Apples (Amanda Webster); and UK rights for Shadows and Haze (Paula... Read more |
Maeve Binchy, the bestselling Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle(Arrow), Tara Road (Orion), and Circle of Friends (Arrow), which was adapted for the screen... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has participated in public hearings for the federal parliamentary inquiry into the prices of software and other electronic products paid... Read more |
The Secret Lives of Emma (Natasha Walker, Bantam) is first on the highest new entries chart followed by Brave Heart (Brett Kirk & Hayley Smithers-Kirk,... Read more |
The Circle, Network Ten’s weekday morning program aimed at women, will air for the last time this Friday after the network announced its decision to... Read more |
New Zealand’s copyright agency has changed its name and rebranded. Formerly called Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL), the organisation has been renamed Copyright Licensing New Zealand... Read more |
Booksellers NZ has announced it has returned to a surplus for the financial year ended 31 March after posting a loss in 2010-11. The organisation’s... Read more |
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival has been announced. The festival, which runs from 5 to 9 September, will be the last... Read more |
The Booksellers NZ annual conference kicks off today in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference, which runs from 1 to 2 August, includes the NZ Post... Read more |
Online Australian bookseller Booktopia has won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Telstra NSW Business Awards. The award, which is open to all entrants... Read more |
Australian author Fiona Lowe is one of the winners at this year’s Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA awards. Lowe’s novel Boomerang Bride (Mira) won... Read more |
Australian poet Mark Tredinnick has won first place in the 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Margaret River Sestets’. Tredinnick was announced as... Read more |
School bookseller Education Works has been placed into voluntary administration. Andrew Sallway, Said Jahani and Matthew Donnelly of Grant Thornton were appointed administrators of the... Read more |
The organisers of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, have announced a new people’s choice... Read more |
A number of Australian booksellers have been affected by what appears to be a series of fraudulent orders originating overseas and being delivered to a... Read more |
The John Button Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2012 John Button Prize. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between... Read more |
The titles longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Yips (Nicola Barker, Fourth Estate) The Teleportation Accident... Read more |
‘This acquisition will allow Penguin to participate fully in perhaps the fastest-growing area of the publishing economy and gain skills in customer acquisition and data... Read more |
Knuckled by Fiona Wright (Giramondo) has won this year’s Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. Wright was announced as the winner of this year’s award at... Read more |
Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop and handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont were drawn together in a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript... Read more |
The Canberra Times has confirmed that the position of literary editor has been cut, as previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher. However, editor Rod Quinn told Bookseller+Publisher that... Read more |
Pearson has acquired the self-publishing service Author Solutions ‘from Bertram Capital for US$116 million [approximately A$113 million] in cash’, the publisher announced in a statement. The... Read more |
The Federal Government has announced that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will begin collecting data on online retail spending by the end of 2013.... Read more |
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. Acting chair of... Read more |
Stephen Samuel has been appointed as the director of the Clunes Booktown festival, replacing Tess Brady who has stepped down from the role after directing... Read more |
The Title books and music chain has opened a new store in Melbourne and plans to open another in Brisbane before the end of the... Read more |
Book-related events over the coming fortnight include: Reality Bites Literary Festival, Conroy, QLD: 26-29 July National Poetry Day, NZ: 27 July Booksellers NZ Conference, Auckland, NZ: 1-2 August... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises... Read more |
Screen Australia has approved investment for the second season of ABC television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the adaptation of Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher books (A&U). The funding was... Read more |
The finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award for a published book in the mind, body, spirit genre have been announced, reports Booksellers... Read more |
Sydney’s Burwood Book Exchange, which first opened in 1986, will close on 8 September. The bookstore, which specialises in secondhand romance titles as well as... Read more |
Hachette UK has announced that Paul Kenny will oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong in the new role of Southeast Asia sales and... Read more |
Writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep is a finalist in the Realise Your Dream Award, run by the British Council and designed to promote international creative... Read more |
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has dropped its attempt to seize the profits made from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks’ memoir Guantanamo:... Read more |
Attorneys for both parties in the Authors Guild vs HathiTrust case questioned whether the mass-digitisation project was ‘fair use’ in their final briefs on motions... Read more |
Google has asked a US court to end the lawsuit over the massive book-scanning project, saying the scanned works are ‘not a substitute’ for books... Read more |
In the US, the Anderson family, which controls approximately 53% of the stock of chain bookseller Books-A-Million, has withdrawn an offer it made to acquire... Read more |
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced that Jose Ramos-Horta will feature in the main program of the festival. Ramos-Horta is a founder of... Read more |
Random House has announced it is partnering with the television production and distribution company FremantleMedia to ‘develop scripted programming for the US and international markets... Read more |
Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Denny, who has been in the role of editor-in-chief... Read more |
In the UK, Bloomsbury has completed its purchase of creative publisher Applied Visual Arts Publishing (AVA) for close to £1.7 million (A$2.57 million), reports the... Read more |
Italian publisher RCS Libri has launched a new digital-first imprint which will publish books free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, reports the Bookseller. The... Read more |
In the US, total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to estimates released Wednesday by BookStats, the annual industry sales survey... Read more |
WritersWA has announced it has been ‘able to reinstate our popular Writers on the Road program for 2012’ as a special initiative of the National... Read more |
The Federal Government has allocated funding from its Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) to library projects in Benalla, Dandenong and Melton, all in Victoria. Minister... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Biennial 2012 Conference wrapped up in Sydney earlier this month, having run from 10 to 13 July. ALIA... Read more |
The Victorian Government has continued to allocate funds to rebuild and renovate the state’s libraries as part of its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, worth $17.2... Read more |
The Christchurch City Council in New Zealand has closed the South Library and Beckenham Service Centre after receiving the results of an engineering evaluation which... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that Margaret Allen has been selected as one of the members of the International Federal of... Read more |
‘Outside of the US, there probably isn’t another single national ebook market that’s big enough to sustain a player on its own in the space... Read more |
S.C.U.M. (Students Combined Underground Movement—the name Tom gives his group of misfit buddies) takes the reader on a day in the life of 14-year-old Tom... Read more |
Judd Bell is a NASA astronaut who has lost his mojo. Ever since his best friend was killed in a shuttle disaster, he’s been doubting... Read more |
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Publisher: Jane Curry Publishing Old Distributor: Macmillan New Distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover Date: 1 September 2012 Returns Cutoff: 30 November 2012
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Andrew McDonald will leave the position of online manager at Readings and join Overdrive Australia as business development consultant in September. (See news.)
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Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Jones was previously deputy editor of the publication and... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced a number of staff changes. Alaina Gougoulis has moved from her role in rights and administration to a newly created position... Read more |
Hachette UK has appointed Paul Kenny to oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong as Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously... Read more |
Stephen Samuel has replaced Tess Brady as the director of Clunes Booktown festival. Brady and other members of the festival team, Creative Clunes secretary Tim... Read more |
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Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. (See news).
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Entries for the 2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes will be open from 1 August to 12 September 2012. Formerly known as the Tasmania Book Prizes, the... Read more |
Detailed information sheets and registration forms for the events are here. Don’t Stet: Thinking about Tomorrow series: Digital Directions – Jane Morrow (Beatrice Davis Editorial... Read more |
‘Bookshops: Here Today, Here Tomorrow’ Guest speaker: Joel Becker, Australian Booksellers Association When: 6.30pm (for 7pm); Wednesday, 15 August 2012 Where: CQ Functions, 113 Queen... Read more |
The Crichton, first awarded in 1988, recognises and encourages new talent in the field of Australian children’s book illustration. Although administered by the Victorian Branch,... Read more |
Entries to the 2012 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards, in association with The Publishers Association New Zealand (PANZ), are now open. Six awards... Read more |
Bookshops interested in stocking Tony Kevin’s new book Reluctant Rescuers, RRP $24.95, are invited to contact him on 0414-822-171 or (02) 6236-3732 or tonykevin@grapevine.com.au or... Read more |
NewSouth Books are thrilled to announce from 1 September they will be the exclusive distributors in Australia and New Zealand for Jane Curry Publishing. Please... Read more |
Wanted: Australian publishers with digital content suitable for school, public and special library collections for the Wheelers ePlatform. Our library customers are eager for Australian... Read more |
Jane Curry Publishing, publishers of leading health and wellbeing titles including the unsurpassed Australian Autism Handbook, will move distribution to NewSouth Books from 1 September... Read more |
HarperCollins Publishers and ABC Books are thrilled to congratulate Frances Watts and Judy Watson on winning the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Children’s Fiction... Read more |
Ice Water Press is excited to deliver the Official Justin Bieber and 1D publishing ranges for Australia and NZ. Our titles feature exclusive behind-the-scenes photos,... Read more |
Alaina Gougoulis has moved from her role in Rights and Administration to a new position in Editorial and Digital Publishing, with a continuing focus on... Read more |
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