Wednesday, 14 March 2012
'At the moment the skills of the "higher order of booksellers" are missing from the online environment ... those of us who want to participate in the digital market in...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kobo boss says tablets are for 'casual readers'Paypal to announce 'revised content policies'...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Bookseller+Publisher will launch a new-look website and Weekly Book Newsletter next week. The redesigned website will feature new subscriber-only content including book reviews, features, author interviews and special reports, as...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
A millionaire is gunned down and detective Lindsay Boxer finds that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four ‘untouchable' criminals in James Patterson's 11th Hour (Century), which...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
In a session at the Leading Edge Books annual conference on Sunday 12 March, Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly announced the price structure of the new TitlePage Plus service. The pricing...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Historian, bushman and author Robert Arthur Breeden has died aged 84. Breeden compiled Aboriginal Words, Stories & Legends (Department of Environment and Conservation) of Jack Bussell's handwritten notes from the 1920s on the Wardandi...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
French comic-book artist Jean Giraud, also known as ‘Moebius', has died aged 73. Giraud's dark fantasy worlds influenced graphic novels and science fiction films such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element and...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
John Garratt Publishing will rebrand as 'Garratt Publishing', the company has announced in a statement. The niche publisher of religious resources said the 'brand new look and image ... are outward...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The Western Australian branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia hosted 22 WA authors at its ninth annual 'night with our stars' event on 8 March.   'Authors and illustrators...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Bookseller+Publisher has released data indicating that reviews of books by men outnumber reviews of books by women in several of Australia's major print newspapers and magazines. The release of the...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
On Fancy Goods this week we meet Claudia Gray, author of Balthazar (HarperCollins), Rebecca Butterworth reviews Missing: Raven Lucas Book 1 (Christine Harris, Scholastic), and Hannah Francis reviews Things a...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Book sales were 'up slightly on 2010' at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said it was 'a relief given the retail price of books...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The 2012 Leading Edge Books Conference, held in Melbourne on 10 and 11 March, was the largest in the conference's history, according to Leading Edge Books general manager Simon Milne....

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Wellington writer Jack Lasenby has won the 2012 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for his 'Uncle Trev' series. The Gaelyn Gordon Award is presented annually by Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
March Rosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Maggie Beer, Penguin (Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook) nationwide.Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley and Kaisa...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Wendy James' The Mistake (Michael Joseph) is about Jodie Garrow, a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks, who adopts out her newborn baby illegally. Twenty-five years on, a...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Trade events coming up over th next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24 February to 18 March Somerset Celebration of Literature:...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
The longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$44,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a...

Monday, 12 March 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has been selected by independent booksellers as their favourite Australian book from the past 12 months.Funder's novel won the Indie Book of...

Monday, 12 March 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, presented 'for a work of outstanding literary merit published in 2011', has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:People of Earth (Christopher Edwards,...

Wednesday, 7 March 2012
The shortlist for this year's Barbara Jefferis Award was announced on 8 March. The shortlisted titles are:Too Close to Home (Georgia Blain, Vintage)When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett, A&U)All That I...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and RR Bowker (parent company of Weekly Book Newsletter owner Thorpe-Bowker) have announced that Copia Interactive will be the supplier providing ebook distribution to users of...