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    The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards have been announced!  Formerly known as the AFI Awards, winners included: Red Dog (the winner of the Samsung AACTA Award for Best Film), Snowtown (4 awards including Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Lead Actor and Best Supporting Actress) and Oranges and Sunshine.  Television was well covered with The Slap winning five awards.  Cloudstreet, Sisters of War and East West 101 were also popular choices on the night.  Many of the winners are available from James Bennett.  You can download a list of the available DVDs from the winners of the...

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    Welcome to the new James Bennett website!  As you've noticed, we've got a totally new look - cleaner, fresher, brighter.  Our new site also has better functionality, navigation and search facilities - and it allows us to disseminate information to you quickly and more effectively.  It's the best place to receive updates to our products and services, special offers, industry news and more so please take a tour of our new website today. For our loyal and valued customers, you will be delighted to know we now have direct links to JBO for titles we are promoting throughout the site...

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    Special Offers

    To celebrate the launch of the new James Bennett website we have several Special Offers for our customers.  IGI Global has offered reduced prices for a limited time on their print and electronic Library & Information Sciences collection. Whether it's a forthcoming, new, or backlist LIS title, take advantage of our special prices today.  From the local market, ReadHowYouWant has provided a collection of Australian large print titles - order the collection and save. And we have ongoing promotions with EBL and Ashgate on various ebook collections.  For more information and downloadable documents please click on the Special Promotions page.  To order,...

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    ALA Awards 300

    The American Library Association has announced the 2012 Youth Media Award winners.  The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature was won by Dead End in Norvelt written by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux).  Two Newbery Honor Books also were named: Inside Out & Back Again written by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins Children’s Books) and Breaking Stalin’s Nose, written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt).  The  Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children was won by A Ball for Daisy illustrated and written by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade Books).  Three Caldecott...

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    James Bennett will soon offer customers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia the popular collectionHQ library collection performance improvement software, following today’s announcement of Baker & Taylor’s purchase of Scottish technology company Bridgeall Libraries. The agreement unites two companies that provide critical services to libraries: Baker & Taylor, the leading supplier of products and services for libraries worldwide; and Bridgeall Libraries, developer of innovative software that helps libraries manage their collections more efficiently. Together, and in conjunction with James Bennett, the companies can help libraries provide the best and most appropriate content to the communities they serve. “This partnership with Bridgeall Libraries...

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    Read it! Love it? Add it to your Profile is a special service that alerts libraries to up-and coming, well-known and and award-winning authors who may not be on their profiled orders list. James Bennett works with prominent publishers like Pan Macmillan Australia to highlight authors that should be automatically profiled. Libraries can sign up for this service by updating their e-newsletter subscription service or contacting their account manager. Authors who were highlighted on the service in 2011 year include:     Christine Stinson (It Takes a Village)     Andrew Nicoll (The Love and Death of Caterina)     Peter James (Dead Man's Grip)    ...

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Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research.  Read to Succeed: strategies to engage children and young people in reading for pleasure is a much needed book and you can read more about it on the new Bennett Blog here.

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THE BENNETT BLOG

Read to Succeed 24 Jan 2012

As many of our customers know, James Bennett has a distribution arm called Inbooks.

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We launch our new website 20 Jan 2012

Some of you may recall my reaction when it was first suggested that James Bennett needed a blog!...

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