Sunday, 4 September 2011
The winners for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers' Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are New Zealand's richest for nonfiction....

Sunday, 4 September 2011
The winners of this year's cultural awards from the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Miles...

Thursday, 1 September 2011
The winners of this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 31 August. The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGreachin (Viking) won the best...

Wednesday, 31 August 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Fiona Stager reviews Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text), David Gaunt reviews All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton) and Andrew Wrathall reviews Midnight in...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
It wasn't just the stories about the Melbourne Writers Festival that placed Kate Grenville's novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) at the top of our most mentioned chart. While Grenville is certainly...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Melbourne Writers Festival: 26 Aug - 4 Sept SeptemberBallarat Writers and Illustrators Festival: 2-3 SeptemberBookcamp (presented...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Vision Australia has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it has ceased production of new audiobook titles. Vision Australia audio publishing sales and marketing manager Jennifer Smith told the...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
‘Murdoch pays his journalists and editors, and his companies generate much of the content they use. But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer reviewing (vetting by other researchers)...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Inside the Term 3 issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher, you'll find 14 reviews of children's and YA books publishing in September to November, as well as a preview of this year's...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning called CengageBrain. Cengage launched the...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
PMP, parent company of closing book distribution business The Scribo Group and printer Griffin Press, has recorded a net loss of $11.3 million for the fiscal year ending 30 June...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Monbiot: academic publishing is 'pure rentier capitalism' and 'economic parisitism' B&N: digital sales up...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Arts Tasmania has discontinued its funding of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine. Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings, who is also the state's Arts Minister, announced the funding cut yesterday, and also...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Bookshops, schools and libraries around Australia celebrated Children's Book Week, which wrapped up on the weekend, having run from 20 to 26 August.Organised by the Children’s Book Council of Australia...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
A Centre for the Book will be established at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, reports Beattie's Book Blog. The University will join a network of other Centres...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
One Day (David Nicholls, Hachette), a novel about friendship and love spanning two decades, now adapted to film, is at the top of the fastest movers chart and fourth on...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Romance writer Sandra Hyde (published as Sandra Hyatt), has died in Auckland aged 46. Hyde was attending the Romance Writers New Zealand (RWNZ) conference, when she became ill and later...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Samuel Menashe, American poet and recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award, has died aged 86. Menashe's books include No Jerusalem But This (1971), The Niche Narrows (2000) and...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
William Bridson Green, novelist and writer of screenplays and theatre pieces, has died aged 71.Green helped found the creative writing course at RMIT, where he specialised in screenwriting. His novels include...