2011 NZ Post Children?s Book Awards finalists announced
Monday, 21 February 2011
The finalists for the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Picture books:Baa Baa Smart Sheep (Mark Sommerset & Rowan Sommerset, Dreamboat...
Giveaway: The Lost Thing
Monday, 21 February 2011
While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre-looking and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice...The Lost Thing is an award-winning film adapted...
Penguin Australia confirms eight redundancies in sales team
Monday, 21 February 2011
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter report Penguin Australia to reduce sales team, Penguin Australia has confirmed that it has announced eight redundancies across its national sales team. The NSW...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 21 February 2011
127 Hours (S&S) is Aron Ralston’s true story of being trapped under a boulder while climbing through canyons in Utah. After the cinema release of the adaptation, it’s at the...
2011 APA Book Design Awards shortlists announced
Monday, 21 February 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the 'Best Designed Cover of the Year' category are:An Everyday...
Media Extra: What’s hot?
Sunday, 20 February 2011
The top four books on the most mentioned chart received an equal number of mentions this week. Yannick Haenel's The Messenger (Text) is a biography of Jan Karski, who was...
In Brief
Sunday, 20 February 2011
2011 NZ Maori Writer's Residency announcedLyttelton author Ben Brown has been announced as the recipient of the 2011 Maori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writer's Centre. Brown, who is...
Quarto Group records revenue growth for 2010
Sunday, 20 February 2011
International publisher Quarto Group, which has operations in Australia and New Zealand, has released preliminary financial results for 2010, recording a revenue increase of 7% in its publishing division and...
REDgroup administrators release date of creditors meeting; information documents available for employees, creditors, franchisees and suppliers
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Administrators Ferrier Hodgson has announced today that concurrent meetings of REDgroup Retail creditors will take place in Melbourne and Auckland on 1 March. In a circular to creditors, which is now...
Amazon UK offers free shipping to ANZ
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Amazon's UK-based website has expanded its free shipping offer to include Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.Orders for books, DVDs and music CDs over £25 (A$40) will be eligible...
Largardere sales decline 4.8% in 2010; Hachette Australia ebook sales expected to ‘grow substantially’ in 2011
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Lagardère Publishing, the French-based parent company of Hachette Australia, has recorded a 4.8% decline in total revenue for 2010. The publisher said in a financial statement last week that the...
Penguin Australia confirms eight redundancies in sales team
Friday, 18 February 2011
As reported last week, Penguin Australia has taken the decision to reduce its sales team, confirming this week that it has announced eight redundancies, nationwide. The NSW and Victorian field sales teams...
REDgroup enters into voluntary administration
Thursday, 17 February 2011
REDgroup Retail, owners of Angus & Robertson and Borders stores in Australia, and Whitcoulls stores in New Zealand, has been placed into voluntary administration. The company called in administrators Ferrier...
REDgroup enters into voluntary administration
Thursday, 17 February 2011
REDgroup Retail, owners of Angus & Robertson and Borders stores in Australia, and Whitcoulls stores in New Zealand, has been placed into voluntary administration, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. The...
Industry reacts to REDgroup news
Thursday, 17 February 2011
A number of key figures in the Australian bookselling and publishing industry have today shared their reactions to yesterday's news that REDgroup Retail is now under voluntary administration. As reported...
Wheelers sell remaining share in Lonely Planet
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Crikey reports that Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler have sold their remaining 25% stake in the guidebook business for an estimated 33 million pounds (A$52.7 million) to BBC...
Amazon UK offers free shipping to Aust/NZ
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Amazon's UK-based website has expanded its free shipping offer to include Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.Orders for books, DVDs and music CDs over £25 (A$40) will be eligible...
RiP Ian Abdulla
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Ian Abdulla, Australian native artist and author of autobiographical picture books, has died aged 63. In 1993 he wrote and illustrated As I Grew Older: The Life and Times of a...
Forthcoming events
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Tools of Change, New York: 14-16 FebruaryBayside Writing Competition: 15 February-15 AprilAPA Professional Development: (Sydney) Social...
New website, staff changes at Inside A Dog
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature (CYL) will re-launch the Inside A Dog website in March. The website will feature new member-run book clubs as well as...
RIP Margaret K McElderry
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Children's editor Margaret K McElderry has died, aged 98. Working as an editor for Atheneum Books she founded the Margaret K McElderry imprint in 1972, becoming the first juvenile-books editor...
Independent Sydney bookstore to close
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Independent Sydney bookstore Zabriskie Booksellers has announced that it will close down next week. The bookstore, which is located in the former Martin Smith's bookstore building on Hall Street in...
Capacity crowds at 2011 Writers at the Convent
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival has continued to increase its year-on-year audience numbers, with audience numbers for the 2011 festival up on 2010 figures. Festival founder and...
Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The shortlist for this year's Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (Bridget Griffen-Foley, NSW, UNSW Press)Salts and Suits...
On Fancy Goods
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust (Elisabeth Wynhausen, MUP), we ask 'Gender...
BISG submissions: ABA calls for reduction in 30/90-day rules, action on pricing; APA calls for TitlePage funding, ABS collection
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Submissions to the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) closed on 31 January, and will soon be made public on the website of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research....
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
With a number of book signings happening all over the country, Michelle Bridges' latest weight-loss book, Losing the Last 5 Kilos (Viking) tops both the bestsellers chart and the fastest...
RiP Dame Judith Binney
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Dame Judith Binney, respected historian and writer, has died aged 70. Binney specialised in the history of Maori and Pakeha engagement and her book Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921, won...
Around the world
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US bankruptcy filing 'imminent' sales rise but earnings fall at IndigoKobo seeking UK...
Thames & Hudson distribution to move to MDS
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that Macmillan Distributions Services (MDS) has been appointed to undertake all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in the Australian and New...
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