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APA Book Design Awards winners announced

The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced in Sydney on 23 May during the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). The winning titles in each of the categories are: Best Designed Book of the Year Things I Love (Megan Morton, Lantern), designed by Evi Oetomo   Best Designed Cover of the Year  Read more...
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Chong wins Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award

Text Publishing designer Chong Weng Ho has been awarded the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award at the 2013 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards, which were announced in Sydney on 23 May. Chong accepted the award from the 2011 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Award winner Sandy Cull. In his acceptance speech he Read more...
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As an unintended consequence of changes in consumer buying habits, people are not paying taxes on things that they have done for years
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- ABA CEO Joel Becker asks government to close GST ‘loophole’ on goods from overseas suppliers

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Clarke wins 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for unpublished manuscript

Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.Clarke was announced as the winner of the $15,000 prize, which is administered by  Read more...
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Penguin to take ‘popular writing’ seminar to Sydney

Penguin has announced that it will take its School of Popular Writing, a one-day seminar for aspiring writers of commercial fiction, to Sydney. Penguin launched the School  Read more...
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The Reading Room announces print book sales

The Reading Room, a book-focussed social media website, will begin selling print books online in June, following its introduction of ebook sales earlier this year, reports  Read more...
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