Monday, 9 August 2010
Jon Bauer's debut novel Rocks in the Belly (Scribe), about an eight-year-old boy and the volatile man he becomes, gained a great deal of media coverage this week and is...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Daylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 AugustWalkley Media Conference: 9-12 AugustRomance Writers of Australia National Conference:...

Monday, 9 August 2010
In Don't Blink (James Patterson & Howard Roughan, Century) an infamous mob lawyer is murdered at Lombardo's Steak House in New York and the assassin slips through the police's fingers....

Monday, 9 August 2010
Dymocks welcomed representives of 70 stores and a total of 200 delegates to its national conference, which ran from 1 to 4 August at the Grand Chancellor in Hobart.Dymocks CEO...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Richard Siegersma has stepped down as CEO of DA Information Services.Marek Palka has been appointed as the new CEO.A statement from DA said 'although no longer employed by DA, Richard...

Wednesday, 4 August 2010
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner was Physics in Focus Preliminary...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The winner of each category is awarded $10,000 with another $10,000 awarded for the book judged...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award has been announced. Booksellers throughout NZ were asked to nominate the books they have most enjoyed reading, selling...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Voting for the Australian SF ('Ditmar') Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday 1 September.Nominated for best novel are:...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia's portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit for Cengage Learning with the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold True Spirit (Jessica Watson) to the US in a pre-empt, Germany at auction and also to France and Korea; Opening the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Barnes & Noble for saleRandom House: ebooks to be '10% of US sales'UK publishers...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
James Bennett has announced the retirement of promotions coordinator Annette Onorato.Onorato, who is retiring after more than 30 years with the company, will finish on 27 August. ‘We would like...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Film producer Elliot Kastner has died, aged 80. He adapted many novels to film including Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare, William Inge’s Bus Riley’s Back in Town, Iris Murdoch’s A...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
‘It's not easy being a trade publisher in Australia these days [...] Trade is terrible [...] retailing in general is now in the worst state that many proprietors and employees...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, we round up the winners of this year's New Zealand Book Design Awards, meet debut novelist Jon Bauer, author of Rocks in the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Sue Brockhoff as head of fiction, effective immediately. Brockhoff will have responsibility ‘for the strategy and development of the entire HarperCollins fiction list, local...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
After 49 years in the book trade, Dennis Flintoff, the NSW sales consultant for Pearson Library, has retired. ‘The team at Pearson would like to recognise and acknowledge Dennis's service...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In today's rights news Hachette Australia reports it has sold US rights to Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman in a pre-empt. Freeman will be known to fans of speculative fiction...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Peter...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Man Booker Prize longlist was a hot topic in the media this week. Most mentioned was Peter Carey's longlisted book Parrot and Olivier in America (Hamish Hamilton), with another...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Australian Educational Publishing Award winners announced: 4 AugustThe 34th Galley Club Awards: 6 AugustDaylesford Words in...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) tops the fastest movers chart this week after a flurry of new awards including Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year...