ASA launches ebook conversion and sales platform
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new service offering ebook conversions and direct sales through its website. ASA executive director Angelo Loukakis told Books+Publishing that the Authors...
ASA launches US tax advice service
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new service to offer its members advice about US tax issues. Similar to the ASA’s new contract negotiation advisory service, the...
ASA launches contract negotiation advisory service
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched an advisory service to help its members prepare for contract negotiations and develop a strategy to improve their contracts. The ‘one-on-one phone consultation service’,...
ASA to run grants initiative for children’s book illustrators again in 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that its grants initiative for children’s book illustrators will run again this year. In a statement on its website, the ASA said that...
New ASA website
The Australian Society of Authors has relaunched its website at www.asaauthors.org. The new site includes a dedicated news section, as well as an events calendar, resources and information on the...
ILF: $515,000 raised this year; ASA auction raises more than $13,000
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised $515,000 this year to fund efforts to improve literacy levels and the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote areas. ILF...
HathiTrust case dismissed; Judge rules ‘fair use’
In the US, federal judge Harold Baer has dismissed the Authors Guild lawsuit against digital repository HathiTrust, ruling that HathiTrust’s book scanning project falls within ‘fair use’ exemptions of copyright...
Litigation in HathiTrust case could begin in November
In the US, the copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository HathiTrust and five US universities could go to trial as early as November, reports Publishers Weekly. The parties to the...
New website to promote Australian literature
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will soon launch a new website to promote Australian literature. Plans for the Reading Australia project were unveiled last week at the...
ASA Children’s Picture Book Illustrators grants announced
The recipients of the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) Children's Picture Book Illustrators grants have been announced. Trace Balla and Craig Phillips are both recipients of the Emerging Illustrators grant. Balla and Phillips...
ASA board changes
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) announced a new board of directors at the annual general meeting (AGM) on 31 March. Sophie Masson continues as chair of the ASA for a...
Judge asked to rule on ‘fair use’ in Hathitrust case
The latest actions in the copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository HathiTrust and five universities in the US could force a more specific legal definition of what constitutes 'fair use' of digitised...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's Barbara Jefferis Award was announced on 8 March. The shortlisted titles are:Too Close to Home (Georgia Blain, Vintage)When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett, A&U)All That I...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's Barbara Jefferis Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Too Close to Home (Georgia Blain, Vintage)When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett, A&U)All That I Am...
ASA expresses concerns about changes at CAL
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed concerns about recent changes at Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), which mean that there is no longer a dedicated author manager position at...
ILF raises $550,000 in 2011; aims for $600,000 in 2012
The Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) exceeded its fundraising goal of $500,000 for 2011, raising a total of $550,000 for the year. ILF executive director Karen Williams told the Weekly Book...
ASA announces new grants for children’s picture book illustrators
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new one-off grants initiative for children's picture book illustrators. Applications are now open for emerging, developing and established illustrators to apply...
HathiTrust ‘suspends’ orphan works project indefinitely
In the US, digital repository HathiTrust has announced that it has suspended its orphan works initiative indefinitely following the filing of a copyright infringement lawsuit by individual authors and authors'...
ASA among authors’ groups suing US universities for copyright infringement
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined forces with authors' groups in the US and Quebec and eight individual authors to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository...
In Brief
Readings to donate 10% of profits to Readings FoundationReadings has announced that it will increase its annual contribution to The Readings Foundation, with the bookseller to donate 10% of its...