Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that comedian Corinne Grant has been confirmed for the Welcome Dinner and Debate on 11 July during this year's ABA national conference‘Comedy debate...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
New Zealand author Kate De Goldi has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship.De Goldi, whose most recent novel The 10pm Question (A&U) won both Book...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Carly Been reviews Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe), Eliza Metcalfe reviews forthcoming short story anthology Wordlines (selected by Hilary McPhee, Five Mile Press,...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
‘Australian operations, at one level or another, are being folded into larger, more global configurations. [...] in a real sense we're seeing a neo-colonisation of the Australian publishing industry. The real...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher, New Frontier managing director Peter Whitfield questions the Australian Publishers Association's commitment to helping self-publishers at overseas book fairs. Read what he had to...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010
National Library of Australia makes free ebook downloads availableThe National Library of Australia (NLA) has made ebooks of out of print titles from the library's collection available for free download from...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The Victorian Writers' Centre (VWC) has appointed Roderick Poole as its new director and CEO.Poole, who has a background in arts management as the founding director of the performance group Strange...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced it has more than 300 ebook titles live on Amazon's Kindle store.Pan Macmillan digital sales and marketing spokesperson Melissa Kemble told the Weekly Book Newsletter...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The winners of this year's Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature have been announced. This year's award has been jointly won by Something About Water (Penny Matthews, illus by...

Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Among the many international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kingsolver wins Orange PrizeDavidar departure reveals Penguin Canada sexual harassment allegations'The elephant in...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Financial director at New Holland Publishers Phillip Shaw has died, aged 66.Former New Holland Publishers colleagues wrote:‘Phillip Shaw was a sincere and much loved friend and will be sadly missed....

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Journalist, science writer Martin Gardner has died, aged 95. He is known for publishing 60 puzzle books and The Annotated Alice (Lewis Carroll & Martin Gardner, Penguin), as well as...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
After an impressive response to this giveaway last fortnight (maybe not so surprising, given our audience), and thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter has another five copies of...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:ABA Training--Brisbane: 14-17 JuneCAL 2010 seminar series--Perth: 17 JuneImagine This! Imagine That!--CBCA NSW conference: 18-19 JuneMiles...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Alan ‘The Red Fox’ Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s and became one of Australia's most influential political journalists. Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt have written...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe, (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
It’s all about the vampires in the bestseller charts this week. Teen readers are buying Twilight spinoff The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Stephenie Meyer, Hachette) at number one...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Parragon Publishing has signed a joint venture agreement with two Chinese publishers to start a new Chinese publishing company that will produce and distribute local-language titles throughout China. Parragon owns 50% of the...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Judy Wheeler, co-owner of New Edition bookshop in Fremantle WA, has died. Fremantle Press writes:'Fremantle Press extends its condolences to Judy’s family. Judy, and her husband Jamie Simpson, owned New...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
‘Historically speaking there have always been novels that have captivated a very broad audience [...] More books are being sold today per capita than at any point in history in...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:ebooks 29% of US sales for Larsson in first week Karp to replace Rosenthal at S&S...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010
The July issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine reaches subscribers this week. Inside, you'll find the usual news, interviews, charts, category round-ups and almost 50 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles....

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used their own bodies as laboratories when writing about pollution in the modern world. The result is Slow Death by Rubber Duck (UQP), which exposes...