Missingham to deliver keynote as SPN annual conference goes online
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that Sam Missingham, founder of the UK-based marketing agency The Empowered Author, will be the keynote speaker at its 2020 Independent Publishing Conference,...
BookUp: APA announces online panels
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), which in March postponed its planned one-day BookUp conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will instead present a series of online panel and conversation sessions...
Leading Edge to hold 2019 conference in Adelaide
Leading Edge Books (LEB) will hold its annual conference on 17-19 March at the Hilton Adelaide in South Australia. With the theme ‘making connections’, the conference program will incorporate the...
Booksellers NZ 2018 conference program released
The program for the 2018 Booksellers NZ Conference, which runs from 25-26 August, has been announced. Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould says this year’s conference is ‘all about the book,...
CBCA conference program announced
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for this year’s national conference, to be held in Canberra from 16 to 18 May. This year’s conference, entitled Discovering National Treasures,...
Leading Edge Books Conference 2013
Eighty booksellers from around 50 bookshops attended this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference, which was held at the Hilton Adelaide from 14-16 June. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, LEB shared its...
Leading Edge Books conference program announced
Leading Edge Books (LEB) has announced a number of sessions and participating authors for its annual conference, to be held from 14-16 June at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. Registrations...
ANZSI Conference to be held in Wellington, NZ
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) Conference will this year be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 12-15 March. This is the first time the biennial conference...
ALA Midwinter Meeting: ebook lending, Dewey vs genre systems debated
The American Library Association held its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, from 25-29 January. Patricia Genet, managing director of ALS Library Services, reports on some of the highlights: One of...
Line-up for Reading Matters conference announced
The full line-up for the 2013 Reading Matters conference, run by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, has been announced. International guests attending the YA books event, which runs from 30 May...
Keynote speakers announced for ALIA conference
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the keynote speakers for its Information Online conference, to be held in Brisbane from 12-15 February. The opening address will be...
First NonfictioNow conference held in Melbourne; ‘Reality Hunger’ tops bestseller list
NonfictioNow, a new conference on nonfiction writing, was held at RMIT University in Melbourne between 21-24 November. Alison Barker, project manager for NonfictioNow, told Bookseller+Publisher that about 400 people attended the conference,...
Reading Matters 2013 dates, new features announced
The State Library of Victoria will hold its 10th annual Reading Matters conference from Thursday 30 May to Saturday 1 June 2013. The conference, which focuses on children’s and YA...
Quote of the week
‘The wasteland of publisher expectations’—Kobo’s Malcolm Neil referring to ebook prices above $15, during a session at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishers Conference.
‘Open-minded’ Independent Publishers Conference a success; will return in 2013
The Small Press Network, the rebranded Small Press Underground Networking Community, is already planning for the 2013 Independent Publishers Conference following a successful inaugural event in Melbourne last week. General manager...
Peter Donoughue on the publishing industry’s ‘shameful’ wars, and the future for small publishers
Former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue gave the keynote address at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishers Conference on 9 November. Here is an extract from his speech: The Amazon narrative...
Thomas Minkus: Guest of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference
Thomas Minkus will visit Melbourne next month as part of SPUNC’s Independent Publishers Conference. He spoke to Andrea Hanke about some of the interesting smaller publishers his work has introduced...
SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference program launched
The small press network SPUNC has launched the program for its Independent Publishers Conference. The conference, to be held at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre on 8 and 9 November, will feature...
Knight, Richards recognised at 2012 PLNSW conference
Robert Knight and Jan Richards were awarded life membership of Public Libraries New South Wales (PLNSW) at the association’s 2012 conference, which was held in Port Stephens between 24-26 July....
Australians head across the Tasman as Booksellers NZ conference kicks off
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 Book Awards, to be announced...