Tuesday, 1 March 2011
The co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia, Perry Moore, has died aged 39. Moore authored the novel Hero which won the Best Novel by the US LGBTI Lambda Literary Award, and wrote...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Australian author, illustrator and film director Shaun Tan won an Academy Award this week for his animated film The Lost Thing. Tan, and fellow director Andrew Ruhemann, received Best Short...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Online book retailer Boomerang Books has launched a new ebookstore this week. Booku launched on Tuesday with more than 134,000 ebooks, including some Australian content from publishers such as Allen...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
The New Zealand book community has begun raising money for Christchurch residents and businesses that have been affected by the earthquake in the city last week. Booksellers NZ has established...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
To coincide with the cinema release of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five packs of the The Girl with the Dragon...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:HarperCollins US limits library ebook loansPearson 'uncomfortable' about Libyan stakeHMV warns it will breach...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Inside WikiLeaks (Scribe), the exposé on the inside workings of notorious whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange by ex-employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg, is top of the fastest movers chart...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
'It is worth noting that no company has ever made an investor-attractive return by publishing printed books in Australia. All the big names have used another business to subsidise their...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, view the covers shortlisted by the APA Book Design Awards and read Sue Bond's review of Gone (Jennifer Mills, UQP).

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
In rights news this week: SalesAdult--Random House has sold Simplified Character Rights to When it Rains (Maggie MacKellar) to China.Children's/YA--Random House has sold The FitzOsbornes at War (Michelle Cooper) to...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Random House US announced this week that it will adopt an agency pricing model for its ebook sales, becoming the last of the major US trade publishers to switch from...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Pearson Australia has informed booksellers that, effective 1 May, it will be supplying all Pearson products on a net price basis. The new pricing policy means a move away from...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
International publishing house Pearson has recorded 10% headline growth for the 2009-10 financial year, with a 21% increase of adjusted operating profit for the period. Taking into account portfolio changes and...

Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Melbourne University Press writes:Melbourne University Press (MUP) regrets to announce that acclaimed Australian writer Hazel Rowley has died today after suffering a stroke last week at her home in New...

Monday, 28 February 2011
A new Dymocks franchise will open in the north-eastern Perth suburb of Ellenbrook in March. The bookselling chain announced in a statement this week that franchisees Jim and Joanna Brown...

Monday, 28 February 2011
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Monday, 28 February 2011
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Monday, 28 February 2011
Daniel Domscheit-Berg's Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website (with Tina Klopp, trans by Jefferson Chase, Scribe) topped the most mentioned chart this week....

Monday, 28 February 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (Boxer's Plain) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth, Melbourne,...

Monday, 28 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:NZ Book Month: 1-31 MarchParis Cookbook Fair: 3-6 MarchPerth Writers Festival: 4-7 MarchShanghai International Literary Festival:...

Monday, 28 February 2011
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced that Egmont UK has acquired the rights to distribute all new titles from its imprint Little Hare Books in the United Kingdom. The publisher, which...

Monday, 28 February 2011
Western Australian writer Annamaria Weldon is the recipient of the 2010 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the 2011 Nature Conservancy Prize for Nature Writing. Weldon was awarded first place in...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
Penguin Australia announced last week that Bob Sessions will step down as publishing director in April. Sessions, who has been with Penguin for 27 years, and head of the publishing department for...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
The winners of this year's Territory Read Northern Territory Book of the Year Awards have been announced. Rod Moss received the $5000 Chief Minister's 2011 NT Book of the Year...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
The Kimberley Bookshop in Broome, Western Australia, is for sale. Bookstore owner Paul Adair told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he is selling the business, located on Napier Terrace in...