Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Melbourne Library Service has joined the growing number of Australian libraries offering ebooks. The City of Melbourne announced this week that MLS has added ebooks to the service's download collection....

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
David Malouf is the first Australian author to win the Criticos Prize for his book Ransom (Random House).Malouf was awarded the prize last week in a ceremony in Athens. This is also the...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Victorian bookseller Readings looks set to be one of the first independent Australian ‘bricks and mortar' booksellers to launch an ebookstore. Readings is preparing to launch a pilot ebookstore using...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Australian author Peter Carey's latest novel Parrot and Oliver in America (Penguin) has been shortlisted in the fiction category for the 2010 National Book Award in the US. Carey's novel...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Sales of the titles on this year's '50 Books You Can't Put Down' Get Reading list increased by 260% during this year's campaign, according to a Get Reading! statement released...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Dymocks bookstores will soon sell a new range of chocolate confectionary. Dymocks will partner with Australian confectionary company Paton's Macadamia Plantations, which it acquired earlier this year, to sell chocolate confectionary products...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
This week on Fancy Goods: Matthia Dempsey's diary from the Indigenous Literacy Project's recent ‘field trip' to the Kimberley, WA; we take a look at some of our reviewers' top...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Michael Connelly's crime thriller The Reversal (A&U), features the teaming-up of characters from previous Connelly books--defence attorney Mickey Haller and detective Harry Bosch. It is first on the highest new...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Belinda Bolliger has joined Australian Standing Orders as editorial manager. Bolliger has previously worked as a publisher with Hodder Headline Australia and was formerly children's publisher at ABC Books. The...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
SalesChildren's--Scholastic has licensed Canadian English and French language rights to You (Stephen Michael King) and Chinese rights to The Man Who Loved Boxes (Stephen Michael King).

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Macmillan Publishers New Zealand has announced that it will close its New Zealand distribution warehouse from January 2011. The publisher will manage the New Zealand distribution of its titles from...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US launches self-publishing serviceAmazon barcode scanner app an 'ultimate weapon'Piracy 'about to arrive...

Monday, 18 October 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Inky Awards was announced Tuesday 12 October. The shortlisted titles are:The Gold Inky (Australian books):Liar (Justine Larbalestier, A&U)Guardian of the Dead (Karen Healey, Little, Brown)Raw...

Monday, 18 October 2010
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is considering investigating whether David Hicks should be sued for any profits made from the sale of his autobiography. The Australian reported over the weekend that Hicks...

Monday, 18 October 2010
Speech Pathology Australia announced the winners of the its 2010 'Book of the Year' Awards on Monday. This year's winners in the three different age categories are:Our Daft Dog Danny...

Monday, 18 October 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The 6th Annual World Matters Festival 2010: 27 October & 30-31 OctoberAustralian Festival of Travel...

Monday, 18 October 2010
It has been a huge week for book news this week. Howard Jacobson's surprise Man Booker Prize win for The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) was the talk of the town for...

Monday, 18 October 2010
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Monday, 18 October 2010
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Monday, 18 October 2010
OctoberIan Britain, Text (Donald Friend Diaries)Brendan Cowell, Pan Macmillan (How It Feels)Michael Chugg, Pan Macmillan (Hey, You in the Black Shirt)Sally Dingo, Hachette (Unsung Ordinary Men)Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete...

Monday, 18 October 2010
Bestselling author of over 20 novels, Belva Plain, has died aged 95. Her first novel Evergreen (Doubleday) was published when she was 59 years old.

Monday, 18 October 2010
Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, director James Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination is a film about doctoral student Omar Razaghi who has been awarded a grant...

Sunday, 17 October 2010
Ford Street Publishing has launched a new speaker's agency. The Melbourne-based publisher of fiction for children and young adults launched Creative Net last week. The agency is designed to represent...