Monday, 18 January 2010
New bookstore Westgarth Books opened just before Christmas in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote. Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas spoke at the shop’s grand opening, which included live music by local artists. ...

Monday, 18 January 2010
Among the international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:consumers punish publishers over Kindle delays with 1-star reviewsebook buyers want affordability: 20% no...

Monday, 18 January 2010
Newbery and Caldecott award winners for 2010 were announced at the American Library Association’s midwinter conference in Boston. The Newbery Medal goes to When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead, Text)....

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
‘It's a very difficult business. But in many ways, I like the fact that it's a difficult business. Otherwise, people who want to make money--by selling crap--would be trying to...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Sleepers publishing has announced that it will develop an iPhone app based on its annual Sleepers Almanac collection. Sleepers publisher Louise Swinn told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the iPhone...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Mary Martin Bookshop owners Sarita and Justin Chadwick have opened a second Mary Martin Bookshop in Norwood, South Australia.  The store, which opened on 12 November last year, is situated...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
HarperCollins Publishers renewed the lease on its Auckland distribution centre in New Zealand on a long-term basis, as reported by Bookman Beattie late last year. The decision followed analysis of...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Some of the guests for this year's Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival, to be held from 12 to 14 February at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent, have been announced. Among...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
A&R Lithgow customer wins $10,000 New York A&R competitionAngus & Robertson Lithgow customer Kerry Brice has won a trip to New York as part of a companywide A&R competition.  The...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
More than 40 rights sales and 10 acquisitions, including a biography of Nick Cave, a Christmas title by First Dog on the Moon and Bernard Beckett's follow-up to Genesis, are...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
As Fantastic Mr Fox delights movie-goers around the nation, and sales of the Roald Dahl classic get a boost too, Bookseller+Publisher magazine has tracked down some of the other book...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey, ringing booksellers around the nation to see how the industry fared in the Christmas sale season. We will publish...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Alexandra Maramenides as managing director. Maramenides, formerly children's rights director at Simon & Schuster UK, joins the company this month. Richard...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will be hold two free seminars in Melbourne and Sydney to discuss the implications of the Google Book Settlement. With the extended Settlement...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK authors demand 75-85% royalties on ebooks US book sales fall 3%UK pulps 77 million...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Susan Hawthorne of Spinifex Press writes: 'Spinifex Press notes with sadness that Mary Daly (1928-2010) died on 3 January aged 81. Mary was a giant of the women’s movement and a foremost...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Sally Bird from Calidris Literary Agency writes: ‘I am deeply saddened to advise that author Denise Greig died suddenly on 26 December, 2009, in Sydney.‘Denise was extraordinarily multi-talented--a photographer, artist...

Monday, 11 January 2010
American poet Rachel Wetzsteon has died, aged 42. Her works include three volumes of poetry, The Other Stars, Home and Away and Sakura Park. She also wrote a study of...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of the underwater adventure Ponyo on DVD. Sosuke discovers a goldfish named Ponyo who longs to be...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Authors on tour in January include:Harvey Milkman, Footprint Books (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration)Paul Miller, Footprint Books (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Australian authors had a good start to the year when it came to media coverage. Quite a few mentions went to Peter Corris' Torn Apart, Sallie Muirden's A Woman of...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Reading Across the Pacific symposium, Sydney, 14-15 JanClosing date for the Finch Memoir Prize, 18 JanuaryGoogle...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Dan Brown gets his time in the sun this week with The Lost Symbol at number one in the Bestseller charts. Stieg Larsson and Stephenie Meyer battle it out beneath...