Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The finalists for this year's New Zealand book industry awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are:Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island)Benny's...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia has been left without a major sponsor, following an announcement from Citibank that it will no longer financially support the festival....

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has rebranded its publishing division. The publishing division of UNSW Press will now be known as NewSouth Publishing and all new titles from July...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Scholastic will cease funding the Dromkeen Foundation, including the National Centre for Picture Book Art, at the end of next year. Director of the Dromkeen Foundation John Oldmeadow told the...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.Scott received the medal at the opening of the Annual Conference of the Association for...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Get Reading! year-long touring program will begin this month, ahead of preparations for this year's Get Reading! campaign which will run between 1 and 30 September. The first authors...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
'The combination of Amazon and [the Book Depository] might actually have a claim to be Australia's biggest bookseller: and one with no presence in the country'--the Bookseller's Philip Jones, blogging...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
What does it take to be a successful literary agent? 'It helps to have some skills in finance, psychology, invisible mending, diplomacy, oration, negotiating, and knowledge of law, grammar, all...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The shortlist for the Nielsen BookData 2011 Booksellers Choice Awards has been announced. The Booksellers Choice Award recognises an Australian new release that booksellers most enjoyed reading, marketing and handselling...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Reader's Feast bookshop in Melbourne, a company-owned REDgroup Retail store run by Mary Dalmau, is set to close in four to five weeks. Administrators Ferrier Hodgson have released a statement...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Eloise Keating reviews Berlin Syndrome (Melanie Joosten, Scribe), we take a look at the 2011 Inkys longlist and the PANZ Book Design Awards 2011 shortlist.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 1 July, PMP, parent company of book distributor Scribo, has announced it will close the business.  PMP CEO Richard Allely told...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Smokin' Seventeen (Hachette), Janet Evanovich's latest novel in the series that follows the adventures of madcap bounty hunter ‘Stephanie Plum', tops the highest new entries chart and is also in second place...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:opinion: 'why "world rights, one cover" is not the best idea'profit up at Waterstone's...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Tom Kruse, a legend throughout Central Australia as the famed mailman of the Birdsville Track, has died aged 96. Kristin Weidenbach wrote about his life in Mailman of the Birdsville...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
A number of booksellers in New Zealand have announced this week that they will not stock a book about a high-profile legal case. Paper Plus and The Warehouse have said...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Author Les Murray has apologised to Socceroos captain Lucas Neill for allegations about Neill's leadership which appear in Murray's new book. Reprints of Murray's The World Game: The Story of...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
PM's Lit Awards winners announced this weekThe winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Friday 8 July in Canberra. As previously reported by the Weekly...

Monday, 4 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'Authoring the Author'--presented by NSW Writers' Centre: starts 7 July.15th e-book Expo, Tokyo, Japan: 7-9 July...

Monday, 4 July 2011
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep...

Monday, 4 July 2011
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