Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Bookshop websites dominate the ‘online retail (media and entertainment)' category shortlist for the 2010 AMBER Awards. The websites for Booktopia, Dymocks, Fishpond and the ABC shop are all finalists in...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK ebook price war 'absurd'; 'industry populated by nincompoops'Seth Godin abandons traditional print publishingUS...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
‘We're in effect being intellectually impoverished by the way ebook market is evolving. An American reader has more access to much more reading (listening) than an Australian reader. The Australian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
In rights news this week: Children's--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to The Phoenix Files (Chris Morphew); Simplified Chinese language rights to Zac Power (H I Larry); French Canadian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Andrea Hanke recommends some picture books for Father's Day, Lachlan Jobbins reviews The Genesis Flaw (L A Larkin, Pier 9) and Hannah Cartmel...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Monash University's publishing unit, currently known as Monash University ePress, is set to change its business plan with the launch of Monash University Publishing on 8 September. ‘From the launch...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The feedback from the Indigenous Literacy Project's Songs for Stories event held at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday night has been ‘absolutely fantastic', event organiser Kristen Gill told the Weekly...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Possession wins 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize Possession by Bain Attwood (MUP) has won the 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize, a special one-time award presented at the 2010 Victoria Community History Awards....

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
New Zealand ebook converter MeBooks has launched at www.mebooks.co.nz. The site has been created by Jason Darwin, who told the Weekly Book Newsletter he had had ‘a mixed career in...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Children’s Book Week running from 21 to 27 August, with the theme of 'across the story bridge', has children participating in classrooms Australia-wide.The Book Week is the longest-running children's festival...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 17th annual Storylines Festival of NZ Writers and Illustrators has completed a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, reaching thousands of New Zealanders, young and old, to participate in and...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 2010 Get Reading! campaign kicks off today. This year's ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' includes 28 books available in ebook format, as well as 18 available as audio...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Children's Book Week: 21-27 AugustABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 AugustILP: I Heart Art fundraising evening: 25 AugustSydney Jewish...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Well, the weekend's election result (or lack thereof) may have taken some by surprise, but it's not exactly a shock that an election-related title topped the most mentioned chart this...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Poet Edwin Morgan has died, aged 90. He was appointed the first Scots Makar (national poet of Scotland) in 2004 and won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He wrote...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Western Australian poet Alec Choate has died. Fremantle Press writes: 'Alec’s first volume, Gifts Upon the Water, was published by Fremantle Press in 1978, one of the earliest titles in...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Literary critic Frank Kermode has died, aged 90.

Monday, 23 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Peter Beinart,...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Elaine Koster, the publisher and literary agent who discovered Stephen King, has died aged 69. As publisher of the New American Library in the 1970s, Koster paid $400,000 for the...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Shearer's wins retail awardShearer's in Leichhardt, Sydney, has won the Outstanding Specialised Retail Business award at the Inner West Local Business Awards.New book design blog launchedA new blog about book...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Peter...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Ex-PM Kevin Rudd's daughter Jessica Rudd graced the cover of the latest Good Weekend in promotion of her new novel Campaign Ruby (Text), and her book was certainly the most...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:The Poetry of Science: 18 AugustDaylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 AugustABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 AugustILP: I...