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Collins Kawana to close 

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Collins Booksellers in Kawana, Queensland, will close this month, reports the Sunshine Coast Daily. Owner Therese Appleby, who bought the Collins store at Kawana Shoppingworld three years ago, said she will...

RiP Tom Clancy 

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Author Tom Clancy has died, aged 66. Clancy was the author of numerous novels including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present...

Bryce to deliver 2013 Boyer Lectures 

Monday, 7 October 2013
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has announced that the Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce will deliver the 2013 Boyer Lectures next month. The lectures will be broadcast on Radio National...

AllBooks4Less trademarks, assets purchased by SJC Books

Monday, 7 October 2013
Remainders outlet AllBooks4Less will be relaunched in coming weeks, following the acquisition of its trademarks and some of its assets by Victorian-based company SJC Books Pty Ltd. The acquisition comes after AllBooks4Less and its parent company,...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 7 October 2013
For the third consecutive week Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) are first and second respectively on the bestsellers chart. They are followed...

On tour: Meet the author Gary Greenberg 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Psychotherapist, author and editor Gary Greenberg is visiting Australia in October. His latest book, The Book of Woe (Scribe), challenges many facets of established psychiatric practice. What would you put...

Game on: Catherine Jinks on ‘Saving Thanehaven’ 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Catherine Jinks’ YA novel Saving Thanehaven (A&U, March) delves into the secret lives of computer game characters, putting ‘a quirky twist on the classic quest tale’ in the words of...

Creative with kids: Sandra Nobes from Allen & Unwin 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Longtime freelancer Sandra Nobes was recently appointed in-house designer for children’s books at Allen & Unwin. She shares her career journey. This year I got my first ‘proper’ job in...

Shelf talk: Classic comics 

Monday, 7 October 2013
In the breakout superhero hit of the year, Hawkeye, Volume 1 (Matt Fraction, illus by David Aja et al, Marvel, December), Clint Barton fights for justice ... and good rooftop...

Shelf talk: Anthologise this 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Tis the season for anthologies, and this year there are several to choose from. Summer Lovin’ (Fremantle Press, December) is a collection of 14 stories about love (lost, found, first,...

Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s summer reads 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Andrea Hanke shares her serious summer reads. While I enjoy a breezy rom-com as much as the next person, the prospect of several days of uninterrupted, beach umbrella-shaded reading time...

Book industry salary survey 2013 

Monday, 7 October 2013
This year, Books+Publishing surveyed members of the Australian book industry to find out exactly how much workers are getting paid. Andrea Hanke and Andrew Wrathall report on the results. It’s...

The nonfiction niche: Children’s nonfiction 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Children’s and YA fiction gets the bulk of the attention when it comes to media coverage, awards and events. So why is children’s nonfiction considered the ‘ugly stepsister’ of children’s...

Talkback: The book industry under the new government 

Monday, 7 October 2013
What do you think will happen to the Australian book industry under the new government? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Martin Hughes, publisher, Affirm Press Apart from a clutch of new books by...

Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....

Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin  Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...

Your store: Sexy events 

Monday, 7 October 2013
Sex in Words is a new series of events at Dymocks Adelaide that began in June with erotic fiction readings from authors Kyoko Church, Kate Belle and Angela Castle. The...

Your store: Sticky situation 

Monday, 7 October 2013
‘Great Book Great Price’, ‘Read It, Love It or Your Money Back!’, ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read’. Publishers’ promotional stickers can provide a catchy sales pitch, promote an unknown...

Bob Sessions: Farewell to the book trade 

Monday, 7 October 2013
In September, Bob Sessions retired from the book trade after more than 27 years at Penguin Australia, including 22 years as head of publishing. This is his parting letter to...

Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction 

Monday, 7 October 2013
I’m pretty sure most booksellers have already figured out what the really big sci-fi and fantasy sellers are going to be for the end of the year: Stephen King’s Doctor...

Book bites: Forthcoming junior titles 

Monday, 7 October 2013
In the pictureMargaret Hamilton, former children’s book publisher and owner of Pinerolo, the Children’s Book Cottage, is releasing her first children’s picture book in March. B is for Bedtime (illus...