SLAV Conference – Choose, Read, Succeed!
One hundred and seventy delegates enjoyed a brilliant series of contributions from the presenters at last week’s School Library Association of Victoria Conference, Choose, Read, Succeed: Partnerships of Practice, the last professional learning event for 2017. From the amusing Opening…
Reading Matters 2013
The schedule for Reading Matters 2013 is now available, boasting an impressive line up of emerging and established authors from across Australia and the world. One of the themes explored this year is story told through different mediums with speakers…
inkpop: the online community of rising stars in teen lit
inkpop is a recent innovation by HarperCollins Publishers. Providing an online community for aspiring authors, members can vote for their favourite stories, which will then be read by the HarperCollins Editorial Board. The website explains more: inkpop is an online…
‘Cheaper’ books, but at what cost?
Both The Age and The Australian are reporting today on the Productivity Commission‘s decision to advise the Federal Government to implement it’s recommendations in yesterday’s report. Publishers fight cheap books Jason Steger July 15, 2009 “We won’t have Australian authors…
