Monday, 10 October 2011
Wellington booksellers Ruth and John McIntyre have won this year's Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award. The McIntyres, who have run the Children's Bookshop in Wellington since 1992, won the award for...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. University of Queensland Press writes:'Our staff here at University of Queensland Press were shocked and saddened to hear...

Monday, 10 October 2011
New Zealand publisher and book distributor Addenda Publishing has been placed into voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. The board and shareholders of the company have appointed chartered accountant Kim...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Bloomsbury Publishing has launched a new digital imprint designed to resurrect out-of-print titles. The first titles from Bloomsbury Reader have been released and are available as ebooks from a range...

Sunday, 9 October 2011
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy announced this year's prize on 6 October in Stockholm. The Academy praised Stockholm-born Tranströmer,...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that a new committee has been established to oversee the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. The New...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Text Publishing has announced that Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have acquired Scottish publisher Canongate's shareholding in Text Publishing for an undisclosed sum. Text publisher and managing director...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Really Blue Books, a new independent Australian digital publisher, will be launched at the beginning of next year. The publisher, which will focus on publishing ebooks by debut authors, has...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
In rights news this week: SalesJenny Darling and Associates has sold US and UK rights to Seduced By Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Robyn Arianrhod,...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. Langford Ginibi won the 1988 Human Rights Award for Literature and Other Writing for her autobiography Don't Take...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, read the extended interview with Charlotte Wood on Animal People (A&U) as well as Heather Dyer's review of Animal People. Shane Strange reviews The Street...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
From social media 'evangelists' to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot, but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey in the current issue of Booksller+Publisher magazine.Following...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
'We estimate that inefficiencies in Australia's book distribution system could account for between 6 per cent and 16 per cent of the price differential between the [average total price, including...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Detective Alex Cross is on the scene of his biggest case. The President's son and daughter have been kidnapped from their school and a deadly contagion in the water supply...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Gribble founded the publishing house McPhee Gribble with Hilary McPhee in 1975. McPhee Gribble later became an imprint of Penguin. With Eric...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Canadian universities opt out of copyright collection societyPrinceton goes Open AccessAmazon welcomes back 10,000...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Monday, 3 October 2011
Attendance figures at this year's Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in regional Western Australia were double those recorded at last year's festival. Approximately 1400 people attended the event, held...

Monday, 3 October 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that each member of the PANZ Council has been given responsibility for their own industry portfolios. The PANZ Council and their...

Monday, 3 October 2011
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne.John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne,...