Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Children’s literary critic Jill Midolo has died, aged 62. Ms Midolo acted as a judge for the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards and the WA Premier's Book...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
ABA Conference program releasedThe Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched the full program guide for its 2010 national conference. The 86th ABA Conference & Trade Exhibition will be held from...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Yann Martel, author of Booker prize-winning novel The Life of Pi (Canongate), is back with Beatrice and Virgil (Text), again about a man on a journey. The protagonist is a...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Closing date for Bayside Writing competition 15 April 2010Closing date for the Australian Book Industry Awards...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Jodi Picoult's novel House Rules (Allen & Unwin), about a teenager with Asperger's arrested for murder, remains at number one on the bestseller chart. Number two on the bestseller chart...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010
British children's author William Mayne has died aged 82. The Guardian called him 'one of the most highly regarded writers of the postwar "golden age" of children's literature'.

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to the Around the World blog in the past week:Pulitzer Prize winnersIMPAC shortlist Shatzkin: 25% of all book sales will occur online by 2012'Your...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
New posts on our Fancy Goods blog this week include: Review of Ten Hail Marys (Kate Howarth, UQP): 'Howarth is a natural storyteller, combining powerfully wrought portraits of her extended...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
‘A non-US publisher will be able to reach half the US market without needing an operation of any kind in the States. This is a sea-change that could even encourage...

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
The nominees for the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards have been announced. Awards will be presented to winners on 3 May at the biennial food festival Tasting...

Monday, 12 April 2010
Marzipan and Magnolias by first-time author Elizabeth Lancaster is the winner of the inaugural Finch Publishing memoir prize. Lancaster's manuscript was chosen from 75 manuscripts entered for the prize by...

Monday, 12 April 2010
The University of Melbourne launched its Custom Book Centre last week.The Centre is a joint venture between the Melbourne University Bookshop and the university's library. The Centre is located in...

Monday, 12 April 2010
UK-based online book retailer The Book Depository has launched an ebooks catalogue, including a quarter of a million titles that can be purchased by Australian customers. ‘We currently have 250,000...

Monday, 12 April 2010
AprilAnthony Puttee, Sid Harta (Dream Raider: A Johnny Marsh Adventure)Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books ('Dragonkeeper' and 'Ramose' series)Chris Bryett, A&U (Over The Top)Clive Small, A&U (Blood Money)Craig Silvey, A&U (Jasper...

Monday, 12 April 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on Friday, this year's Sydney Writers Festival program has been announced, along with a $151,500 increase in its funding for 2010.‘The...

Monday, 12 April 2010
The popularity of Stephenie Meyer's ‘Twilight' series has recently been rubbing off on repackaged classic Wuthering Heights in the UK, but local publishers have been smart in harnessing the power...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
The Enemy by Davide Cali and Serge Bloch, first published in English by Melbourne-based independent publisher Wilkins Farago, has been included in the 2010 ‘list of outstanding books' produced by...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Hachette Australia has confirmed that the new book from ‘Twilight' creator Stephenie Meyer will be released worldwide on 5 June. The Australian release of The Short Second Life of Bree...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Random House Australia (RHA) will release ‘a wide range of specifically Australian titles' as ebooks in the ePub format ‘within weeks'.RHA MD Margie Seale told the Weekly Book Newsletter: 'Most...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
The inaugural meeting of the NZ Book Trade Liaison Committee was held in Auckland last week. The Committee comprises representatives from the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ; Booksellers New...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Spinifex Press has announced the release of a new ebook-only edition of Remember the Tarantella by Finola Moorhead, the first in a series of ebook re-issues of 'feminist classics'.Remember the Tarantella...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Further to last week's story about a number of redundancies at John Wiley & Sons, Wiley has issued a clarification that the job losses will only affect its Wiley-Blackwell division.'Wiley-Blackwell...