Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Ebooks are here at last, but there are more than a few hurdles to a thriving Australian ebook market. Eloise Keating looks at the challenges and decisions facing the industry...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
The London branch of Jack Morgan's international investigation agency 'Private' is in the spotlight--the daughter of the agency's most valuable client has been kidnapped and Dan Carter, head of the...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:T S Eliot tops app storeauthor recommends buying print, not ebookAmazon will publish 32...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
HarperCollins New Zealand has signed a new publishing agreement with local film studio Weta Workship which will involve the publication of movie tie-in books. Weta Workshop said in a statement...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann, Bloomsbury), has won the 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. The €100,000 (approximately A$134,000) award is the most valuable for a novel published...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Ingram has announced the official opening of its Australian Lightning Source operation. Ingram told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the operation, which will offer print on demand facilities, launched with...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
'For the record - I'm a book lover and I don't have an e-reader. I'm a traditionalist, but obviously part of a dying breed.'--From the Twitter account of Federal Minister...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
HarperCollins has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Spiros Kotsialos will finish in his position as digital and innovation director this week. Kotsialos, who has worked for the publisher...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Pan Macmillan has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Alex Craig has replaced Rod Morrison as Picador publisher. The Age reported over the weekend that Morrison left his position...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have joined the committee for the...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The biennial Watermark Literary Muster: 17 - 20 June The Noosa Longweekend Festival: 17 -...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Craig Sherborne's novel The Amateur Science of Love (Text) is about Colin, who dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a career on the stage. He makes it to...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
June Kevin J Anderson, Orbit (‘Terra Incognita' series) Sydney and Perth. Alan Bissett, Newsouth (Boyracers) Melbourne and Brisbane.Tim Bonyhady, A&U (Good Living Street) Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.Tricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, well-respected travel writer and war hero, has died aged 96. Fermor's works include Travellers' Tree (1950), The Violins of Saint-Jacques (1953), A Time to Keep Silence (1957),...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced that Larissa Edwards, currently associate publisher at Random House, will join the publisher in the newly created role of head of publishing in July....

Monday, 13 June 2011
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the youngest-ever author to win the...

Monday, 13 June 2011
A number of Australian authors were among those recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. In the general division of the Order of Australia, historian Graeme Davison was made officer...