Tuesday, 31 January 2012
New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books is now a full-service publishing house. Pear Jam Books was originally established last year by author Jill Marshall to publish a children's book to...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at Text Publishing's new 'Australian Classics' list; Jon Page talks about ebooks, the agency model and ‘predatory pricing’; Blair Mahoney reviews The...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Bloomsbury Publishing will launch a new literary imprint called Bloomsbury Circus in Australia and New Zealand this year. Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going to book adaptations. The award...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
'You will not see flat pricing under agency (not if the publisher has half a retail mind). There will be days, weeks or even months when the price will drop,...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Dale Campisi, publisher at Arcade Publications, has been appointed editor of Tasmanian literary journal Island. Campisi, who will also continue in his role as publisher at Arcade, replaces former editor...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
New Zealand fiction writers David Lyndon Brown and Anna Taylor are the recipients of the 2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Brown and Taylor will each receive a NZ$20,000 (approximately A$15,480)...

Monday, 30 January 2012
Text to launch $12.95 Australian classics listText Publishing will publish a list of low-price classics similar to Penguin's Popular Penguin series and Random House's $12.95 classics. The list will launch...

Monday, 30 January 2012
Australian authors were among those recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours. Stuart Macintyre was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) for 'distinguished...

Monday, 30 January 2012
Andrew McMillan, Northern Territory author and journalist, has died aged 54. McMillan wrote for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and NT News.  His books include Strict Rules...

Monday, 30 January 2012
FebruaryKatherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Silent Fear) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (including regional).Carrie Tiffany, Picador (Mateship with Birds) Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate (Forecast Turbulence) Perth, Brisbane...

Monday, 30 January 2012
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Monday, 30 January 2012
For a second week Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears (Hamish Hamilton) has received the most mentions in Media Extra. Author Alain de Botton, who tours Australia in late February,...

Monday, 30 January 2012
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Monday, 30 January 2012
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:Midsumma Festival: 15 January to 5 FebruaryPerth International Arts Festival, WA: 10 February to 3 March Writers at the Convent, Abbotsford: 10-12...

Sunday, 29 January 2012
NewSouth Publishing has launched a new prize for science writing called the Bragg UNSW Press Prize. The prize, which is named after Australia's first Nobel Laureates William and Laurence Bragg,...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to distribute Amazon books in USKobo to enter Dutch ereading...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, David Gaunt reviews Mateship with Birds (Carrie Tiffany, Macmillan), Andrew Wrathall takes a look at some of the bestselling ebooks during Christmas, and Meg Whelan...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
A man is serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. Private investigator Paige Holden witnesses the execution of the man's fiancé, the woman having handed the...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Apple has released a new version of its iBooks application for iPad and a new self-publishing application, which together will allow Apple users to self-publish multimedia ebooks through the iBookstore....

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Penguin Australia's general publishing team has announced it will accept unsolicited manuscripts electronically once a month. The initiative, called 'the Monthly Catch', invites electronic submissions of adult fiction and nonfiction...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books has partnered with 3D search technology firm Thereitis.com to create an online search tool that emulates the book-browsing experience of a bricks-and-mortar store. The new...