Monday, 14 February 2011
February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House (Alice Miranda series) Armidale, Southern...

Sunday, 13 February 2011
The South East Asia and Pacific regional shortlist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize has been announced. The nominees for the South East Asia and Pacific best book are:Reading Madame...

Sunday, 13 February 2011
Penguin Australia has confirmed that it has 'taken a decision to reduce the numbers of our salespeople'. Penguin sales director Peter Blake told the Weekly Book Newsletter last week the company had...

Sunday, 13 February 2011
Text Publishing has announced the appointment of Michelle Calligaro to the newly created position of digital manager. Text managing director and publisher Michael Heyward told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Letters and Numbers (Hardie Grant), a word and number puzzles book based on the SBS TV show testing players' vocabulary and mathematical skill, is top of the fastest movers chart this...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
A number of Australian books have been included in the Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities list produced by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) for...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt interviews Gail Jones on ‘Five Bells’ (Vintage) and Angela Meyer reviews ‘Yearn’ (Tobsha Learner, HarperCollins).

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Major players in the ebook retailing market appear to be facing a challenge to their current online retailing model, following a move by Apple that could net the company up to 30% of revenue...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Global ebook distributor OverDrive has announced that it has expanded its monthly 'Most Downloaded Books from the Library' lists to include territory-specific charts, including one for Australian libraries which use...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
In rights news this week:  SalesFiction--HarperCollins has sold White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Tuscan Rose (all by Belinda Alexandra) to Hungary; and Mercy and Exile (both by Rebecca Lim) to...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Bloomsbury, which opened an office in Australia this year, has announced the appointment of Alexandra Pringle to the new role of coordinating acquisitions for Bloomsbury operations in Australia, the US,...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
'We want world rights where ever possible,' Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin says, as the company announces a restructure to meet the challenges of globalisation.

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:NYT launches ebook bestseller listbook bloggers boost Book DepositoryCanada's largest book distributor files for...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 63 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, the first Junior supplement for the year and a look at developments in printing and...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Brian Jacques, children's book author of the New York Times bestselling 'Redwall' series, has died aged 71. Jacques' 22nd and final book in the series, The Rogue Crew (Philomel), is...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Joyce Nicholson Thorpe, founder of the Weekly Book Newsletter, died in late January aged 91.Publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter Tim Coronel writes:'We are very sad to hear of the death...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Vivienne Brophy, who was editor of D W Thorpe's journal The Australian Newsagent & Stationer, passed away peacefully at her home this week.Brophy was appointed as a full-time senior editor...

Monday, 7 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Taipei International Book Exhibition: 9-14 February Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia Seminar on Book...

Monday, 7 February 2011
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Monday, 7 February 2011
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Monday, 7 February 2011
February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House (Alice Miranda series) Armidale, Southern...

Monday, 7 February 2011
It's no surprise that both Gail Jones' Five Bells (Vintage) and Annie Proulx's Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) have appeared in Media Extra for the second time in a row--fans of...

Monday, 7 February 2011
New Zealand fiction writers Sue Orr and Mark Broatch have been announced as the recipients of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Orr and Broatch will each receive a NZ$20,000...