Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Parragon Publishing has signed a joint venture agreement with two Chinese publishers to start a new Chinese publishing company that will produce and distribute local-language titles throughout China. Parragon owns 50% of the...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Judy Wheeler, co-owner of New Edition bookshop in Fremantle WA, has died. Fremantle Press writes:'Fremantle Press extends its condolences to Judy’s family. Judy, and her husband Jamie Simpson, owned New...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
‘Historically speaking there have always been novels that have captivated a very broad audience [...] More books are being sold today per capita than at any point in history in...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:ebooks 29% of US sales for Larsson in first week Karp to replace Rosenthal at S&S...

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010
The July issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine reaches subscribers this week. Inside, you'll find the usual news, interviews, charts, category round-ups and almost 50 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles....

Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used their own bodies as laboratories when writing about pollution in the modern world. The result is Slow Death by Rubber Duck (UQP), which exposes...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Due to the Queen's Birthday public holiday on Monday 14 June, next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 17 June. The deadline for classified and job advertisements...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Shirley Walker has won the $30,000 2010 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for her novel The Ghost at the Wedding (Penguin). Judge Robert Dixon, said Walker had...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Western Australian literary magazine Indigo Journal has announced it will close after the final issue, Volume 6, is published in December this year. ‘In their recent funding round our...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Thames & Hudson has announced that sales and marketing manager John Dennithorne has resigned.Dennithorne, who is leaving to establish a new book business, has held the position for the past...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced changes to the Australian/Vogel Literary Award.The winner of the award, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, will not be announced until the book is...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Andrei Voznesensky, one of Soviet Union’s most celebrated poets of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 77.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg's partner for more than 30 years, has died aged 76.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The popular Food Safari series on SBS presented by Maeve O'Meara is a glorious adventure through world cuisine. The success of the television series translated to a bestselling book last...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Writer Maria Quinn has died. Quinn was author of The Gene Thieves (HarperVoyager), winner of the 2007 Todhunter Literary Award and recipient of a Varuna fellowship. HarperCollins writes: 'We were...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Text Publishing has confirmed it has ‘almost 150 titles either currently available or about to be listed' as ePub format ebooks. ‘In the beginning we favoured bestselling and critically acclaimed...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Designers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jackson and Keely O'Shannessy have been shortlisted for the NZ AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award.The award is open to designers who are under...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The finalists for this year's Romantic Book of the Year Award have been announced by the Romantic Writers of Australia, with the winner to be announced at awards dinner in...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
A full program for this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The main program runs from 6-8 August, with workshops from 2 August. ‘We've taken as our...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced this year's Schools' Program. This year, writers such as Cath Crowley, John Danalis, Shirley Marr, Shaun Tan, Neil Murray and Emily Maguire will be...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Details of this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival (BWF) event for young readers, writers and illustrators, ‘Word Play'--including an online program and booking forms--are now available online, here.The event is open...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) in Australia has decided to move back to the United Kingdom for family reasons.  Cindy Jones, who has been with MHE...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has confirmed it will not award a winner in its inaugural Young Calibre Prize. ‘We reached this decision very reluctantly,' ABR editor Peter Rose told...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we introduce publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall, who tells us what he's been reading; we celebrate the arrival of the July issue of Bookseller+Publisher; Laurie...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
New iPhone to feature increased ereading abilitiesApple has announced the forthcoming release of its iPhone 4, which tech reporters say will give users access to its iBooks store. ‘As an...