Tuesday, 23 February 2010
ACT Writers Centre will not be holding a Writers Festival this year. The organisation held three small-sized festivals last year, the smaller festivals replacing the previous Canberra writers festival.The Weekly...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers weekNew Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week runs 9-14 March in Wellington. The week kicks off with the Gala Opening featuring Audrey Niffenegger with...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
‘Considered from a wider book industry point of view, it was disappointing how little consideration was given to retailers, readers and authors, and how much of the talk was about...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes the first issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher for 2010. As well as reviews, news and interviews, Junior rounds up the children's and YA titles to...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Scribe has announced that A Darker Music by Maris Morton is the winner of its inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. Morton, who was born in 1938, beat shortlisted authors Meg...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The shortlist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and Pacific, has been announced. The Best Book nominees are: Summertime by J M Coetzee (Knopf, Australia) A Good Land...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Random House has licensed Blood Men and The Cleaner (Paul Cleave) to Brazil. Australian Literary Management has sold rights to The Legacy (Kirsten Tranter, Fourth...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
'I think the WBN is at risk of boring its readers, and Hachette in danger of pumping up its own tyres, as this has been widely reported before. Simply put, Hachette...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the appointment of Michael Visontay as editor of the ASA's journal Australian Author. Visontay, who takes up the position with the April...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The 2009 financial year was Simon & Schuster's most successful in Australia and New Zealand since the phenomenal success of The Secret in 2007, according to managing director Lou Johnson....

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Following articles published in the Australian newspaper, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has defended its payments to its staff and to rightsholders. Despite being established by the Australian Society of Authors,...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Google Settlement: judge unable to rule on Fairness HearingThousands of authors opt out of...

Monday, 22 February 2010
Thanks to Random House Australia, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see A Single Man, Tom Ford's directorial debut starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth. In...

Monday, 22 February 2010
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution...

Monday, 22 February 2010
The top five books in our Most Mentioned chart all received the same number of mentions this weekend. This included two bushfire-related titles. Jane O'Connor's Without Warning: One Woman's Story...

Monday, 22 February 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, New York, 22-24 FebruaryClosing date for the PANZ...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Penguin Australia writes: ‘Photographer Alfred Gregory passed away last week just before his 97th birthday. "Greg" as he was known to his friends, was the official photographer for the 1953...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The titles shortlisted for the 2009 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature have been announced. The four titles are:Gordon Barton: Australia's Maverick Entrepreneur (Sam Everingham, A&U)Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Penguin Australia writes: ‘A regular visitor to our shores during his writing career, Dick had a special relationship with Australian readers and the Australian horse racing industry and will be...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
To celebrate the announcement of Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five six-month subscriptions to the Macquarie Dictionary online! Each year, the clever...