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Monday, 4 July 2011
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On tour
Monday, 4 July 2011
July Tristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne. James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835:...
Amazon to acquire The Book Depository
Monday, 4 July 2011
Amazon has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository for an undisclosed sum. Greg Greeley, Amazon's vice president of European retail, said...
Amazon to acquire The Book Depository
Monday, 4 July 2011
Amazon has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository for an undisclosed sum. Greg Greeley, Amazon's vice president of European retail, said...
REDgroup administration: 2 A&R stores sold; remaining company stores to close
Monday, 4 July 2011
REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson have announced today that the last of the Angus & Robertson (A&R) bookstores owned by REDgroup Retail will close down by the end of this month....
REDgroup administration: 2 A&R stores sold; remaining company stores to close
Monday, 4 July 2011
REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson have announced today that the last of the Angus & Robertson (A&R) bookstores owned by REDgroup Retail will close down by the end of this month....
RiP Louise Schofield
Monday, 4 July 2011
Children's author and former senior journalist with The Australian, Louise Schofield, has died. Schofield was the author of 10 books including Secrets in the Tingle Forest, which won the Western...
Amazon to acquire The Book Depository
Monday, 4 July 2011
Amazon has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository for an undisclosed sum. Greg Greeley, Amazon's vice president of European retail, said...
Media Extra: What’s hot?
Sunday, 3 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...
Reader’s Feast bookshop to close
Friday, 1 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...
Scribo to close, 50 staff affected; Brumby Books and Music ‘will continue’
Thursday, 30 June 2011
PMP, parent company of book distributor Scribo, has announced it will close the business. PMP CEO Richard Allely told the Weekly Book Newsletter the company had made the decision following an eight-month...
PMP Limited announces closure of The Scribo Group
Thursday, 30 June 2011
PMP Limited has announced that after completing an exhaustive strategic review of the Scribo business over the last six months the business will be closed. The key elements of the...
Scribo to close, 50 staff affected; Brumby Books and Music ‘will continue’
Thursday, 30 June 2011
PMP, parent company of book distributor Scribo, has announced it will close the business. PMP CEO Richard Allely told the Weekly Book Newsletter the company had made the decision following an eight-month...
On tour
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
JulyTristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne. James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835: The...
RiP Kerry Leves
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Poet Kerry Leves has died, aged 63. Leaves' most recent poetry collection, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar, was shortlisted for the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize and the New South Wales Premier's...
Books at MIFF: publishers and titles announced
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) 37º South Market has announced the publishers attending and tiles to be pitched at Books at MIFF (BaM) on Thursday 21 July. Twenty-four publishing companies...
‘That Deadman Dance’ wins 2011 Miles Franklin Award
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 22 June, That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented at an...
2011 Carnegie, Greenaway Medals winners announced
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books) has won this year's Carnegie Award, presented each year for outstanding writing in children's books. The Kate Greenaway Award for distinguished illustration...
‘Power and Majesty’ wins David Gemmell Legend Award
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Power and Majesty by Australian author Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager) has won the Ravenheart Award for best fantasy book jacket at this year's David Gemmell Legends Awards for fantasy writing. ...
Show & Tell Promotions to repay authors for speaking events
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has advised that former speaker's agency Show & Tell Promotions has designed a 'repayment schedule' to repay authors for unpaid speaking events. As previously...
Minister Sherry, booksellers hold ‘constructive’ talks
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Federal Minister for Small Business has described his meeting with members of the Australian bookselling community last week as 'constructive' and 'a good opportunity to clear the air'. As previously...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold US and Canadian rights to That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador) to Bloomsbury.Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold Opening the Door...
CAL survey finds 26 percent of publishers have no digital strategy
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on digital publishing trends, which recorded...
Inside the current issue: Too many prizes?
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As Kim Scott takes out one of the country's best known prizes, Fairfield Books' Heather Dyer and Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman address the fraught question 'Is there such...
Quote of the week
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
'We are a long way from being a post-reconciliation society'--Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott responds to judges comments that That Deadman Dance is a 'post-reconciliation' novel.
Ceekape Media launches new children?s imprint
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Ceekape Media has launched a new children's book imprint called LillyandSahra. The imprint will publish fully illustrated children's picture books, designed for children aged four and older, and storybooks, designed...
On Fancy Goods
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Toni Whitmont interviews Kim Scott on That Deadman Dance (Picador) and we take a look at the shortlisted titles for the 2011 PANZ Book Design...
Dunne to leave REDgroup
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Acting CEO of REDgroup Retail Australia Gary Dunne will finish in his position with the company at the end of next month. Dunne has been appointed as the new general...
Spineless Wonders launches Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
New publisher Spineless Wonders, which launched with the short story collection Permission to Lie (Julie Chevalier) in April, has announced the establishment of the Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award. The...
Around the world
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pottermore website to sell Harry Potter ebooks exclusively'Digital makes territorial rights obsolete': CharkinUS ebook...
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