Tuesday, 24 January 2012
London-based marketing, sales and distribution agency Eurospan has announced that it has opened a sales and marketing office in Melbourne. Eurospan said in a statement this week that books from...

Monday, 23 January 2012
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2011 finalists announcedThe finalists in the 2011 Australian Romance Readers Awards were announced on 16 January. Members of the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) have until...

Monday, 23 January 2012
The program for the 2012 Perth Writers Festival has officially been launched. The festival will be held between 23 and 26 February as part of the 2012 Perth Festival, and...

Monday, 23 January 2012
Jon Appleton has finished in his position as publisher for Lothian Children's Books at Hachette Australia and has moved to the UK. Appleton finished in his position with Hachette Australia in...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The New Years Honour list for New Zealand has been announced. Among the recipients were Robyn Bargh, managing director of Wellington publishing company Huia, who received a Companion of the...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
A new Guide to Digital Publishing, developed by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will be launched in February. The resource will be launched at CAL's Annual Seminar on digital publishing,...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Australia's Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes face 'probably the greatest challenge since their inception' in the form of ebooks, according to the PLR committee's annual...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Burnside wins TS Eliot PrizeAmazon to launch ebooks in Brazil this yearWaterstones drops...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The nephew of Bernard Fairclough, a wealthy and influential business magnate, has died and Inspector Thomas Lynley is sent in undercover to investigate. The official cause of death is ruled...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Paul Donovan has retired from his position as executive director of Allen & Unwin (A&U). A&U executive chairman Patrick Gallagher told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Donovan will consult for...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
'People have responded very favourably to the reduction in prices and are starting to consider books to be good value'--Anna Low, owner of Potts Point Bookshop in NSW, responding to...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The Weekly Book Newsletter's annual post-Christmas survey is now closed.   If you have any queries, please email bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Text Publishing has sold UK rights to The Cook (Wayne Macauley) to Quercus; Taiwanese rights in The Vanishing Act (Mette Jakobsen) to Rye Field; and...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
British crime writer Reginald Hill has died, aged 75. Hill wrote the 'Dalziel and Pascoe' series, which was adapted to television by the BBC.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new one-off grants initiative for children's picture book illustrators. Applications are now open for emerging, developing and established illustrators to apply...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
John Seymour, long-time publisher and sales representative in New Zealand, has died.Publishers NZ writes:'John spent his whole working life in the book trade, beginning with Bennetts in Palmerston North in...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
RMIT University in Melbourne will offer a new Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing this year, and will phase out its existing Diploma and Certificate IV qualifications in the...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, Craig Cliff writes about ‘the trans-Tasman literary gulf’ and how to bridge it, Andrea Hanke takes a look at Picador's relaunch of its ‘greatest novels’,...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Campion Education has acquired a majority shareholding in educational technology supplier Edsoft Interactive. Campion managing director James Cathro told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Edsoft Interactive will continue to operate...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Children's publisher Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced the launch of a new imprint called Chirpy Bird. The publisher said in a statement this week that the new imprint will...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
JanuaryJames Duigan, Kyle Books (Clean and Lean Cookbook) Sydney.David Sedaris, Hachette (Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk) Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.Kirsten Tranter, Fourth Estate (A Common Loss) Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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