Tuesday, 1 June 2010
JuneBenjamin 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 Cosies)Maggie...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Award-winning Australian author Randolph Stow has died, aged 74. Penguin Australia writes:'Penguin Books acknowledge with sadness the passing of Randolph (‘Mick’) Stow (74), one of Australia’s most enigmatic and highly-regarded...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Richard Smart will consult for the organisation.  Smart, who recently stepped down from the APA board after eight years as convenor of the...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Our publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall reports from the Emerging Writers Festival; Bookseller+Publisher columnist Portia Lindsay reviews The Quest for Justice (Ken Crispin, Scribe); and former Bookseller+Publisher assistant editor Eliza Metcalfe...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Inside the current combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher is the latest Junior Bookseller+Publisher, with news, reviews and interviews from the world of children's and YA publishing. Reviewer John Webb spoke...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter has five copies of the SBS series Empire of the Word to give to five lucky readers. An ambitious documentary in the...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Kylie Walker as food publisher.  ‘Kylie is incredibly well respected in the food industry, having most recently been editor of delicious. magazine, and...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Cheryl Akle, project director for Get Reading!, will present a monthly book segment on the Channel 10 program The Circle.  Akle, who encourages publishers to submit books for possible review...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Richelle Mead’s fifth novel in her ‘Vampire Academy’ series, Spirit Bound (Razorbill), has appeared at number one in this week’s Top 10 bestsellers chart, also claiming the number one position...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the appointment of Alison Brook as head of publishing.  In the newly created role Brook, who is joining the company from Penguin Books New Zealand...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
‘Two Australian booksellers were in my office last week. The trauma they face is even worse than it will be here. Geography has protected Australia from competition so books are...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Keillor op-ed provokes debateMankell detained in Israel after flotilla attack Indigo reports 'significant expense'...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
REDgroup Retail launched its Kobo ebook platform in its New Zealand Whitcoulls stores on Thursday 27 May and an Angus & Robertson launch in Australia is ‘imminent', according to REDgroup's...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
It's Still in My Heart, This Is My Country: The Single Noongar Claim History (John Host & Chris Owen, UWAP) has won the Margaret Medcalf Award for works that display...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Four books in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse (Hachette), have appeared in the fastest movers chart, behind The...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
A National Year of Reading will be officially launched in the week of 11 July, to coincide with the Australian Booksellers Association national conference, with the ‘Year of Reading' itself...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
‘The vast majority of consumers (68%) are unlikely to or dead set against buying an ebook reader'--so finds a UK survey of readers, ‘Reading the Future', conducted on behalf of...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The shortlists for 18 of this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.Shortlisted and winning entries for these 18 awards were chosen by an academy of booksellers and...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Weldon Owen has announced the retirement of publisher and chief executive Sheena Coupe. Coupe, who will retire in August after 25 years with the company, will be succeeded as managing...