Monday, 7 February 2011
Wellington-based author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi has won this year's Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award. De Goldi received the award, which is presented annually by the...

Monday, 7 February 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the establishment of a new Training Fund. PANZ said in a statement last week that individual PANZ members will be able...

Monday, 7 February 2011
Founder and Chair of Acorn Press Ltd, Bishop John Wilson, has died aged 73. Wilson was an academic theologian and a significant figure in the Anglican Church in Australia. His...

Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Former publishing director of Penguin New Zealand Geoff Walker has established a new publishing consultancy business in Auckland. Walker told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he will work with authors,...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Juliet Rogers has stepped down from her position as CEO of Murdoch Books. Murdoch Books announced today that Rogers, who has already finished in her role, will be replaced by Bruce Hallett,...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Robert Sutton's Good Boss, Bad Boss (Hachette), a corporate guide book that delves into the nitty-gritty of what the best (and worst) bosses do, tops the highest new entries chart...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
The Five Mile Press has announced that Poppy Grijalbo and Nick Matthews have joined the company in the roles of publisher and finance and operations director, respectively. Managing director of...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
SalesFiction--Scribe has sold UK rights for Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor) to Atlantic Books. Allen & Unwin has sold Spanish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex and Russian rights for...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
‘The question is really when, not if, most ebooks will move to the cloud'--Martin Taylor, director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum, praising the new Readings ebookstore, which uses ‘in the...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt reviews Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage) and Sharon Athanasos reviews The Very Bad Book (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US delays January paymentsKindle ebook sales 'outstrip paperbacks' on Amazon.comagents and publishers differ...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Kobo has launched a social ereading platform called Reading Life which allows users to share what they are reading through social networking sites. The international vendor announced today that Reading...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Lonely Planet has announced today that it plans to establish operations in India in the next 12 months to 'develop local content written by Indian authors for Indian travellers across...

Monday, 31 January 2011
The program for the 2011 Perth Writers Festival was launched last week. The festival, which will be held between Friday 4 March and Monday 7 March in the grounds of...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January to 6 February ALIA Information Online...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, has turned to literary nonfiction to write the memoir Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) about her experience of building a house...

Monday, 31 January 2011
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Monday, 31 January 2011
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Monday, 31 January 2011
FebruaryDaniel 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, 31 January 2011
A group of Australian self-publishers are calling for local authors to participate with them in this year's London Book Fair (LBF), which will take place between 11 and 13 April.The Australian...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Former president of Booksellers NZ, Pierce Brooke Anderson, has died aged 81.Booksellers New Zealand writes:'Pierce was a highly regarded bookseller, firstly in Opotoki and then for many years owner of...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Independent Queensland bookstore TLC Books has created and released an iPhone application. Bookstore owner and creator of the app Tanya Caunce told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the store, which...

Sunday, 30 January 2011
Independent Australian publishing house The GHR Press has announced that it has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Arcadia UK. The GHR Press, which was formed when Goko Publishing and Hale...

Sunday, 30 January 2011
Penguin Australia has announced that art director Deb Brash will finish in her position in February. Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions said this week that Brash, who has been a...

Thursday, 27 January 2011
Broome-based author Jacqueline Wright has been announced as the winner of the 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Wright received the award, which includes a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract...