Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The recent exhibition, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond - Post Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, at the National Gallery of Australia, drew 477,000 visitors--and also achieved...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week--the best designed Australian books and covers of the year, as recognised in last Thursday's Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards, held in...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Inside the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, Angela Meyer talks to Queensland Writers Centre CEO Kate Eltham about digital publishing, the Tools of Change conference and  the new ‘if:book'...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
This year's Sydney Writers' Festival wrapped up on Sunday 23 May, having begun on 15 May. It was the first festival under the artistic directorship of Chip Rolley, and was...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced the launch of an iPhone app for the three bestsellers in the ‘Underbelly' series, written by Andrew Rule and John Silvester and published in hard...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Pearson has announced the launch of ‘its first all-encompassing online learning platform for primary and secondary students and teachers' at www.pearsonplaces.com.au. The Pearson Places website, which the publisher said contained...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
To celebrate the paperback release this month of The Lost Mother: A Story of Artand Love by Anne Summers, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 10 copies of the book to...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Mordue wins Pascall PrizeJournalist and author Mark Mordue is the winner of this year's Pascall Prize for a critic ‘whose work over the previous 12 to 18 months has contributed...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK Booksellers Association announces Google Editions dealShatzkin: 'a new take on "no returns"'Hachette UK...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
May John Connolly, Hachette (The Whisperers) Neil Cross, S&S (Captured) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) Yiyun Li,...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Political writer Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, has written a memoir entitled Hitch-22 (A&U), which has gained top place in our most mentioned chart this week. In his book Hitchens...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Emerging Writers' Festival, 21-30 MayBook Expo America, 25-27 MayBayside Literary Festival, 21-28 MayBook Expo America, 25-27...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Publisher Geoffrey Robinson Chapman has died, aged 80. Born in Melbourne and later moving to London, he founded Christian publishing house Geoffrey Chapman Ltd and was known for publishing The...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Andrew Easton, sales and marketing manager at Bookwise for over 10 years, has launched a new distribution company, Alpa Books. Easton began Alpa Books to ‘provide an alternative distribution option...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 20 May at a special event in Sydney. The winning books were:Best Designed Book of...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Author and teacher James Thomas Griffin has died, aged 80. He was the author of the revisionist biography John Wren (Scribe) and a frequent contributor to the Australian Dictionary of...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
A beta version of Platinum Planet, a website aimed at helping independent booksellers, is being trialed by Lonely Planet Europe and UK for booksellers in that region. Described as a...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at an awards Ceremony in Auckland on 19 May. The winning titles were:NonfictionE3 Call Home (Janet Hunt,...

Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Ned Kelly award shortlists announcedThe titles nominated for this year's Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. To see the full list, go to www.nedkellyawards.com/2010.html The winners will...

Wednesday, 19 May 2010
'For mid-tier publishers this is a big hit'--Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill on the effect of federal budget cuts to Austrade's Export Market Development Grants, which have supported many...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Nebula Award winnersHachette sales fall as Twilight slowsGoogle settlement could breach US treaties and...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has launched Bolinda Digital, a new ‘e-audiobook’ service for both online book retailers and libraries.Bolinda Digital titles will appear on-screen in catalogue searches as the library or...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Perth-based lawyer Lloyd Rayney has launched a defamation case against author Estelle Blackburn, editor Malcolm Brown and publisher Pan Macmillan Australia over a chapter in the book Mad, Bad and...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Despite Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper cutting its daily arts coverage, announcing last week that two long-standing arts journalists have been made redundant, the paper’s books coverage is reportedly ‘going strong’.‘The...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The winners of this year's Josephine Ulrick poetry and short story prizes have been announced. The winners are: PoetryFirst Prize ($10,000) 'endtime' by Nathan CurnowSecond Prize ($5000) 'Always Sometimes Never'...