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...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
James Sangster British screenwriter best known for screenwriting the 1950s classic horror films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), and The Mummy (1959), has died aged 83. 

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Further to its announcement that it was ‘monitoring' the proposed acquisition of the UK-based online book retailer the Book Depository by Amazon, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and how it led to the Settlement of Australia by Emma Christopher (A&U) and A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W...

Monday, 29 August 2011
The winners of the 24th Australian Family Therapists' Awards for Children's Literature have been announced. The winner of the main prize, worth $1000, is Diary of a Would-Be Princess 3...

Monday, 29 August 2011
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year's Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has been launched and features an...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's New South Wales Premier's History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories, each worth $15,000, are:Australian History PrizeColonial Voices: A...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The winners of the 2011 Age Book of the Year awards were announced on 25 August at the opening keynote address of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe) won the...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley (NewSouth) has won this year's John Button Prize for public policy writing. Wesley, who receives a cash...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 25 August. The winning titles are:Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) may be coming to Brisbane. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival hoped to run a mini-conference on 15 October...