Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Guests have been announced for the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program taking place during the Sydney Writers' festival, which runs from 16 to 22 May 2011.International guests confirmed to join...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Suzy Wilson, owner of Riverbend Books in Brisbane, and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has been awarded the 2010 Dromkeen Librarian's Award. Presented at the annual Dromkeen lunch...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients chosen to receive funding in 2011. Trustees of the foundation, including writer Helen Garner, Readings staff, and donor Peter Donoghue, former managing director...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Chip Rolley will continue in the position of artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) for the next three years. The extension of Rolley’s position was due to his...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
'The main driver of competition now affecting the bricks and mortar retailers is much more to do with the take-up of new technology and the way it liberates consumers from...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Barnes & Borders?pricing and DRM dominate UK FutureBook conferenceover 100 US indie bookstores...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be the last for 2010.The first issue of WBN for 2011 will be published on 12 January. Any material submitted online...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article REDgroup annual results: ‘Promising growth' in online sales but overall $43 million loss, the REDgroup has announced its final 2009-10 full year results...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Alan Sheardown, former manager of Planet Books, has opened Crow Books, a new independent bookstore in Perth.  Sheardown told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the new store, located at 900...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nominations are open for Stanner Award: 1 November 2010 - 31 January 201155th Walkley Awards...

Monday, 6 December 2010
As newspapers prepare their summer reading lists, Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Fourth Estate) has come out on top on our most mentioned chart this week. During three consecutive weeks in August...

Monday, 6 December 2010
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Monday, 6 December 2010
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Monday, 6 December 2010
DecemberGraeme Base, Penguin (The Legend Of The Golden Snail) Richard Blackburn, Zeus Publications (‘Gatekeeper' trilogy)Kay Danes, Big Sky Publishing (Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa) Elizabeth Donaldson, Exisle Publishing (William Dobell)...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Text Publishing has re-released the original cult memoir about advertising life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s. Jerry Della Femina's From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbour was...

Monday, 6 December 2010
The winners of this year's Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award and Judith Wright Prize were announced over the weekend. The 2010 ACT Book of the Year Award...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Betty Jean Lifton, a writer, adoptee and adoption-reform advocate, has died aged 84. Lifton was best known for a nonfiction trilogy: Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (McGraw Hill,...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Bert van Bedaf, whose writings made a lasting contribution to the Dutch experience in Australia, has died aged 61. Van Bedaf wrote About the Dutch, The First Europeans to Explore...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
New category for WA's Premier's Book Awards  The State Library of Western Australia has announced that a new category will be added to the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards from next...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Maree McCaskill has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that a publishing event attended by Australian and Chinese publishers last week was an 'enormous success'....

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Dymocks has announced the launch of a same-day bicycle delivery service within Sydney's CBD. The ‘Dymocks CBD Pushy Express' will offer same-day delivery in the city's CBD or North Sydney...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Author Hugh Lunn and his publisher ABC Books have written to the Monthly editor Ben Naparstek ‘requesting an apology and removal' of a review of Lunn's book Words Fail Me...