Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Authors on tour in March include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ onlyDavid Finkel, Scribe (The Good Soldiers)Cristovao Tezza,...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Ever since Melina Marchetta wowed young adults with her book Looking for Alibrandi, she's been a favourite author among teenagers. Her new book The Piper's Son has just hit bookshelves...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week, 9-14 MarchEmirates Airline--International Festival of Literature, Dubai, 10-13 MarchAnnouncement...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Stieg Larsson continues to dominate the Bestseller charts with his three ‘Millennium' trilogy books nabbing the top three spots. Belinda Alexandra's Tuscan Rose comes in at number one in the...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The Australian Society of Authors has announced the 2010 shortlist for the Barbara Jefferis Award. The award, valued at $35,000, honours Australian novels with high standards of literary merit that...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The publication of a highly critical essay by Louis Nowra on Germaine Greer and her classic book The Female Eunuch has provoked strong criticism from many for its attitude to...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced the 10 new author ambassadors for the renamed Books Alive campaign ‘Get Reading'. ‘Alex Miller, Christos Tsiolkas, Craig Silvey, Nick Earls, Malla Nunn, Mark...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) has announced the 13 finalists for the 2010 Australian Shadows Award. The award, ‘the highest honour for horror, dark fantasy, and paranormal fiction in...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Australian, New Zealand titles in running for international cookbook awardsThe International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) has announced the finalists in its Cookbook Awards. Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion (Stephanie...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Author and Indigenous Literacy Day ambassador Tara June Winch has launched a new project to support women's literacy. The One Thousand project (http://www.onethousand.org/) was launched at Melbourne's The Wheeler Centre...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Apple has confirmed that its new iPad device will be available in Australia in late April. The iPad will be available in wifi and wifi+3G models, with pricing to be...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The finalists in the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards have been announced: Picture bookCowshed Christmas (Gavin Bishop & Joy Cowley, Random House NZ)Old Hu-Hu (Kyle Mewburn & Rachel...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine reached subscribers last week. As well as reviews of 45 as-yet-unpublished Australian and New Zealand titles, the latest news and author Q+As with Maggie...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
More than 90 people, including writers JM Coetzee, Tom Keneally, Christos Tsiolkas and Tim Flannery, have signed a letter organised by authors Charlotte Wood and Michelle de Kretser protesting China's...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
HarperCollins Australia has launched a Print on Demand (PoD) program. The publisher launched with a list of 140 books on 8 March, with more to be added in future. HarperCollins...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
In rights news this week: AcquisitionRandom House reports it has acquired the rights to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's memoirs Tony Blair: The Journey, for publication in September under...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The 82nd Academy Awards honoured many films adapted from books, in the annual ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday.The Oscar for best adapted...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010
An interactive draft of the national curriculum has been released online by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), covering kindergarten to year 10 classes of English, mathematics, science...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Australian development house Inventive Labs has created a 'new way to embed a "book" on any webpage with two lines of code'.Monocle is free open source software, which provides a...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Allen & Unwin won this year's publisher of year crown at the Leading Edge Books conference last weekend in Hobart.Also recognised at the conference gala dinner were Pages & Pages...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
'Whatever the great ebook definition is, it's necessary as it ensures that we go from physical books to electronic books. Otherwise we're going to end up with electronic things that are non-books and...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Canadian Booksellers Association lobbies to prevent Amazon expansion 2010 Abu Dhabi Book Fair declared...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
This week on Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog you can find out what Gleebooks bookseller David Gaunt and SBS newsreader Anton Enus are reading, read Matthia Dempsey's round-up of writing advice...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
HarperCollins Publishers has announced it will ‘branch out into custom publishing', with the appointment of Suzanne Monks as custom publisher. ‘As custom publisher, Suzanne will broaden the base of HarperCollins' trade-focused...

Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:publishers have a win in case agains RapidshareCopyright, piracy and (anti-)DRM dominate at TOCCanadian book market up...