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AACTA Winners Announced

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 first annual AACTA Awards on our Entertainment pages.  Simply go to http://www.bennett.com.au/entertainment/focus-on-aacta-award-winners[[sitetree_link id=747]]or contact our dedicated Entertainment team today at entertainment@bennett.com.au[mailto:entertainment@bennett.com.au]

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Welcome to our new website

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.

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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. 

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American Library Association announces 2012 winners

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 Honor Books also were named: Blackout, illustrated and written by John Rocco (Hyperion Books), Grandpa Green illustrated and written by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press) and “Me … Jane,” illustrated and written by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown).

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Media Release: James Bennett to offer collectionHQ to libraries

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.

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Read it, Love it, Add it to Your Profile

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.

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