Monday, 20 September 2010
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Online Australian bookseller Booktopia reports that it has made it onto the BRW Fast 100 list for the second year in a row. The announcement of the annual list of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Hungarian rights to Dog Boy (Eva Hornung, Text).Nonfiction--Black Inc. has sold North American rights to Frugavore: How to Grow...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:The 9th Overload Poetry Festival: 10-19 SeptemberSony ebook forum: 16 September, SydneyREDgroup conference: 21-22 SeptemberALIA Hunter...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced it will implement the inaugural Queensland Writers Week (QWW) from 11 to 17 October. The week-long event will be an ‘open literary festival',...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
‘My idea of hell is a website with 80,000 self-published works on it--some of which might be jewels, but, frankly, who's got the time? What people want is selection and...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The late Australian author Maria Quinn has won the inaugural Norma K Hemming Award for excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, class and sexuality in speculative fiction,...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Due to a technical error, the following story appeared on the Bookseller+Publisher website but not in last week's Weekly Book Newsletter.Our apologies.West Australian Premier Colin Barnett announced the winners of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Publishing software and services company Publishing Technology has expanded into Australia, to service the Australian and New Zealand publishing markets. Previously represented in Australia by its local agent VISTA Computer...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Borders launches FourSquare promotionBorders has launched a promotional campaign using the location-based social network Foursquare. The Borders campaign will offer a 10% discount to every third Fourrsquare ‘check-in' at any...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Revenue in Wiley's Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said the Asia-Pacific full-year revenue of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
New ‘boutique publishing' company Ace Press has launched at www.acepress.com.au. Founded by former librarian and teacher Adrienne Sallay, the company launches with five titles: two adult fiction, one YA fiction...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Murder, mystery and mayhem seem to be the running themes dominating the top of the bestsellers chart this week with the crime novels Postcard Killers (James Patterson & Liza Marklund,...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Bolinda has launched an audiobook download solution for libraries, with plans to offer the solution to retailers next year, and to incorporate ebook downloads in the future. ‘Bolinda digital is...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, the first of the election titles goes to print, B Owen Baxter reviews Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee (A&U) and Clare Hintston speaks...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Inside the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you'll find a round-up of all those glorious cook books coming our way for Christmas.If you missed the September issue, you missed out on...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:backlist gets a digital afterlifeHighton to launch new imprintGoogle Editions to launch in Japan...

Monday, 13 September 2010
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Monday, 13 September 2010
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Monday, 13 September 2010
Vicki McAuley's Solo (Macmillan) was number one on the most mentioned chart this week. Andrew McCauley set off from Tasmania in a sea kayak in 2007, aiming to be the...

Monday, 13 September 2010
September Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan)Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books...

Monday, 13 September 2010
Joan Steiner, author and illustrator of the children's picture book series ‘Look-Alikes' (Little, Brown), has died. Steiner used common household items to create three-dimensional scenes including famous landmarks such as...

Monday, 13 September 2010
Novelist and biographer Elizabeth Jenkins has died recently, aged 104. Jenkins was a notable biographer of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb, Henry Fielding and Elizabeth I.

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
HarperCollins has announced its US imprint Eos Books will be rebranded as HarperVoyager ‘joining together with the celebrated Voyager imprints in Australia/New Zealand and the UK'. Michael Moynahan, HarperCollins CEO...