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Wiley reports Asia-Pacific Higher Ed revenue up 13% 

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...

Ace Press launches 

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...

Bestsellers this week 

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,...

On Fancy Goods 

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...

Inside the current issue: Food, glorious food! 

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...

Around the world 

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...

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Monday, 13 September 2010
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Monday, 13 September 2010
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Most mentioned in ‘Media Extra’ 

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...

On Tour 

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...

RIP Joan Steiner 

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...

RIP Elizabeth Jenkins 

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.

Media Extra: What’s hot? 

Sunday, 12 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...

HarperCollins creates global Voyager imprint 

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...

Most Mentioned in ‘Media Extra’ 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The release of Tony Blair's memoir A Journey: My Political Life (Hutchinson) has been eagerly awaited both by reviewers and book buyers. In the book, Blair addresses two of the most...

NZ: Scott new Booksellers director 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
In New Zealand, Peter Scott was elected to the seat on the Booksellers board left vacant by the retirement of Susi Blackmore. Peter and Charlene Scott are the owners and...

Forthcoming Events 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Write around the Murray Festival: 8-12 September 2010Evening with Fethiye Cetin: 12 September 2010To view...

Got news? 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
If you've got news you think would be of interest to Weekly Book Newsletter readers, let us know by emailing bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au

Stay in touch with us 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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On tour 

Tuesday, 7 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...

Around the world 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:will 'the death of the book' extend to universities?Shatzkin: how can publishers move...

MWF celebrates 25 years 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival has recorded a 10% increase in the number of tickets sold in 2010 and said the festival had ‘maintained record attendances of 50,000'. It was Steve...

Carey on Booker shortlist, Tsiolkas misses out 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), which had...

Carey on Man Booker shortlist, Tsiolkas misses out 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), which had...

RIP Larry Ashmead 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
American editor Larry Ashmead has died, aged 78. He worked for several large publishing houses, such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, where he edited the books of Susan...

Audience and bookshop sales boost at this year’s BWF 

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday 5 September after five days of events--and some impromptu African drumming--at the State Library of Queensland. Typically, the big names drew the...