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Sales of '50 Books You Can’t Put Down' increase by 115% during 2011 'Get Reading!' campaign
Sales of the titles on the 2011 '50 Books You Can't Put Down' Get Reading! list increased by 115% during last year's campaign, compared to the five weeks preceeding the campaign, according to dat...
Industry, politicians respond to BISG recommendations
The Book Industry Strategy Group's final report to government, which was handed over to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr last week, has attracted a var...
Review of NSW Premier's Awards underway
The New South Wales government has announced that it has appointed a panel to review the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards. Arts NSW said in a statement this month tha...
BISG recommendations announced
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has recommended the timetable for retention of territorial copyright in Australia be reduced from 30/90 days to 14/14 days in its final report to the Federal Go...
Haskell steps down as Literature Board chair
The Australia Council for the Arts has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Dennis Haskell has stepped down as chair of the Literature Board. A spokesperson for the Australia Council told the ...
Government to establish Retail Council in response to PC inquiry; taskforce to look at parcel processing
The federal government has announced that it will establish the Retail Council of Australia in response to the Productivity Commission's final report in its public inquiry into the Economic Structure ...
Carr changes ministerial role; Sherry leaves Cabinet
Senator Kim Carr is no longer Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research following a cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard this week. Carr is now the Minister for Ma...
In Brief
NZ country of honour website launchedA website for New Zealand's Frankfurt country of honour project has been launched. The NZ At Frankfurt site includes information about the Frankfurt Book Fair, New...
BISG releases PWC report into Australian book industry
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has made public a research report commissioned from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) entitled Cover to cover: a market analysis of the Australian book industry. T...
'Island Magazine' seeks new funding
The board of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine will meet in two weeks to develop a strategy to keep producing the magazine, following the decision by Arts Tasmania last week to discontinue it...
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