Tuesday, 3 August 2010
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Sue Brockhoff as head of fiction, effective immediately. Brockhoff will have responsibility ‘for the strategy and development of the entire HarperCollins fiction list, local...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
After 49 years in the book trade, Dennis Flintoff, the NSW sales consultant for Pearson Library, has retired. ‘The team at Pearson would like to recognise and acknowledge Dennis's service...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In today's rights news Hachette Australia reports it has sold US rights to Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman in a pre-empt. Freeman will be known to fans of speculative fiction...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Peter...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Man Booker Prize longlist was a hot topic in the media this week. Most mentioned was Peter Carey's longlisted book Parrot and Olivier in America (Hamish Hamilton), with another...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Australian Educational Publishing Award winners announced: 4 AugustThe 34th Galley Club Awards: 6 AugustDaylesford Words in...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) tops the fastest movers chart this week after a flurry of new awards including Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year...

Monday, 2 August 2010
The shortlist for the Australian Christian Book of the Year (ACBoY) award has been annnounced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Australia (SPCKA).The shortlisted titles are:A Century of Influence:...

Monday, 2 August 2010
IPEd tenders for 'Style Manual'The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has joined with Adelaide-based company Website Criteria and the Australian Graphic Design Association to submit an expression of interest to...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week Dani Soloman interview's Shaun Micallef, whose novel Preincarnate is due in November (Hardie Grant); Annelise Balsamo reviews A Simpler Time (Peter FitzSimons, HarperCollins);...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) celebrated the launch of its Book Buzz early literacy project in the New South Wales community of Wilcannia on Tuesday 27 July.Hosted at St Therese's...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The books shortlisted for this year's Galley Club Awards have been announced. Titles have been shortlisted in 17 categories, including case bound book with RRP under $35; case bound book...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
iPad launches in NZ; 'Hairy Mclary' app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23 July, Penguin Books New Zealand's...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Award-winning Australian author Jon Stephen Cleary, best known for writing The Sundowners, has died aged 92. HarperCollins writes:'HarperCollins is sad to report that author Jon Cleary—an Australian icon and a...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Australian authors Christos Tsiolkas and Peter Carey are on the longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The longlist of 13 titles, announced overnight in the UK, includes Tsiolkas' The...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The longlist for this year's £30,000 (A$52,000) University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Among the titles shortlisted for the biennial prize for ‘the best published or produced...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The shortlist for the $20,000 2010 John Button Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay35: Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia (Noel Pearson, Black Inc.)The Politics...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Random House Australia, as part of a worldwide Random House policy, ‘will not be entering into any new English-language business agreements with the [US] Wylie Agency', following the agency's deal...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Dymocks Hamilton, which opened in New Zealand in 2007, has closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter it was ‘disappointing that the Dymocks Hamilton store is closing...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
There are thousands of book apps on offer in Apple's App Store. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher, editor Andrea Hanke spoke to some Australian publishers who have gotten in...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Lonely Planet has announced a new distributor for its products in New Zealand. From 5 September 2010 Craig Potton Publishing will be the publisher's exclusive distributor in New Zealand, taking...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US Authors Guild on Wylie: 'publishers have brought this upon themselves''Remarkable' Penguin strengthens Pearson...