Sunday, 28 February 2010
Leading Edge ConferenceThe Leading Edge Books National Conference will be held this weekend, 6-8 March, in Hobart. Over 80 independent booksellers will be attending, and many publishers and authors will...

Sunday, 28 February 2010
The editorial team that produces the Weekly Book Newsletter, Bookseller+Publisher magazine and its supplements, Media Extra and the Fancy Goods blog is set to change in coming weeks. Acting Bookseller+Publisher...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Jumping on the vampire bandwagon, Hourglass by Claudia Gray overtakes the three Stieg Larsson titles this week in the Bestsellers--appearing at number one, it is also this week's ‘fastest mover'....

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the titles shortlisted in this year's Book Design Awards. The books shortlisted were chosen from 420 submissions. The titles in the running for...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The titles in the running for the Barbara Ramsden award for excellence in editing have been announced. The award, a joint activity of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and IPEd, recognises...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Mel Cain, associate publisher--nonfiction at HarperCollins has announced she will leave the company to move to the US. Cain, who has spent almost 18 years at HarperCollins, joined the company...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Collins Booksellers has announced the promotion of Jenny McNear to the position of buying manager. ‘Collins Booksellers is delighted with Jenny's appointment to the Collins Booksellers Management team,' managing director...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch a localised version of the website for ‘partners' launched recently by its US counterpart. Managing director Lou Johnson has confirmed the publisher will be running...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
ACT Writers Centre will not be holding a Writers Festival this year. The organisation held three small-sized festivals last year, the smaller festivals replacing the previous Canberra writers festival.The Weekly...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers weekNew Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week runs 9-14 March in Wellington. The week kicks off with the Gala Opening featuring Audrey Niffenegger with...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
‘Considered from a wider book industry point of view, it was disappointing how little consideration was given to retailers, readers and authors, and how much of the talk was about...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes the first issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher for 2010. As well as reviews, news and interviews, Junior rounds up the children's and YA titles to...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Scribe has announced that A Darker Music by Maris Morton is the winner of its inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. Morton, who was born in 1938, beat shortlisted authors Meg...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The shortlist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and Pacific, has been announced. The Best Book nominees are: Summertime by J M Coetzee (Knopf, Australia) A Good Land...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Random House has licensed Blood Men and The Cleaner (Paul Cleave) to Brazil. Australian Literary Management has sold rights to The Legacy (Kirsten Tranter, Fourth...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
'I think the WBN is at risk of boring its readers, and Hachette in danger of pumping up its own tyres, as this has been widely reported before. Simply put, Hachette...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the appointment of Michael Visontay as editor of the ASA's journal Australian Author. Visontay, who takes up the position with the April...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
The 2009 financial year was Simon & Schuster's most successful in Australia and New Zealand since the phenomenal success of The Secret in 2007, according to managing director Lou Johnson....

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Following articles published in the Australian newspaper, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has defended its payments to its staff and to rightsholders. Despite being established by the Australian Society of Authors,...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Google Settlement: judge unable to rule on Fairness HearingThousands of authors opt out of...

Monday, 22 February 2010
Thanks to Random House Australia, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see A Single Man, Tom Ford's directorial debut starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth. In...

Monday, 22 February 2010
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution...

Monday, 22 February 2010
The top five books in our Most Mentioned chart all received the same number of mentions this weekend. This included two bushfire-related titles. Jane O'Connor's Without Warning: One Woman's Story...