Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Penguin Australia's general publishing team has announced it will accept unsolicited manuscripts electronically once a month. The initiative, called 'the Monthly Catch', invites electronic submissions of adult fiction and nonfiction...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books has partnered with 3D search technology firm Thereitis.com to create an online search tool that emulates the book-browsing experience of a bricks-and-mortar store. The new...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Indie Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins)The Street Sweeper (Elliot Perlman, Random House)Foal's Bread (Gillian...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Several Kindle-edition Australian ebooks listed on Amazon are accompanied by the statement ‘this price was set by the publisher'. The statement, which accompanies Kindle-editions of Australian titles from Hachette Australia,...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Digital Publishing Australia, a new community resource to be launched by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will include an introductory how-to guide to digital publishing and a website at www.digitalpublishingaustralia.org.au. As...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced its awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Printz, Newbery, Caldecott and Stonewall. Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones has been chosen as an honour...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
A new research report has fuelled speculation that global retailer Amazon is considering establishing an Australian-facing retail website. The Australian Financial Review and SmartCompany reported on 20 January that a...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
‘While I agree with [Louise] Adler's call for more subsidies, the question remains where and how the resources should be invested. I remain somewhat unconvinced by a vision of a...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
In rights news this week:SoldFiction--Random House Australia has sold The Trouble with Fire (Fiona Kidman) to France; Rocking Horse Road (Carl Nixon) to Germany; and Blood Men by Paul Cleave to...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Penguin Australia will launch an Australian list of short ebook-only titles this year. To be called Penguin Australia Shorts, the list will be similar to the Penguin Shorts list now...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) has announced that it has selected Ingram Content Group as its sole library content supplier. The move, which will allow the consortium...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Registrations are now open for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference 2012, which will be held on 1 and 2 March in Auckland. PANZ released further details...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
JanuaryJames Duigan, Kyle Books (Clean and Lean Cookbook) Sydney.David Sedaris, Hachette (Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk) Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.Kirsten Tranter, Fourth Estate (A Common Loss) Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Peter Carey's latest novel The Chemistry of Tears (Hamish Hamilton) received the most mentions in Media Extra this week. When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Midsumma Festival, Melbourne: 15 January to 5 FebruaryDigital Book World Conference New York: 23-25 January.To view these...

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
London-based marketing, sales and distribution agency Eurospan has announced that it has opened a sales and marketing office in Melbourne. Eurospan said in a statement this week that books from...

Monday, 23 January 2012
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2011 finalists announcedThe finalists in the 2011 Australian Romance Readers Awards were announced on 16 January. Members of the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) have until...

Monday, 23 January 2012
The program for the 2012 Perth Writers Festival has officially been launched. The festival will be held between 23 and 26 February as part of the 2012 Perth Festival, and...

Monday, 23 January 2012
Jon Appleton has finished in his position as publisher for Lothian Children's Books at Hachette Australia and has moved to the UK. Appleton finished in his position with Hachette Australia in...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The New Years Honour list for New Zealand has been announced. Among the recipients were Robyn Bargh, managing director of Wellington publishing company Huia, who received a Companion of the...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
A new Guide to Digital Publishing, developed by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will be launched in February. The resource will be launched at CAL's Annual Seminar on digital publishing,...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Australia's Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes face 'probably the greatest challenge since their inception' in the form of ebooks, according to the PLR committee's annual...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Burnside wins TS Eliot PrizeAmazon to launch ebooks in Brazil this yearWaterstones drops...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The nephew of Bernard Fairclough, a wealthy and influential business magnate, has died and Inspector Thomas Lynley is sent in undercover to investigate. The official cause of death is ruled...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Paul Donovan has retired from his position as executive director of Allen & Unwin (A&U). A&U executive chairman Patrick Gallagher told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Donovan will consult for...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
'People have responded very favourably to the reduction in prices and are starting to consider books to be good value'--Anna Low, owner of Potts Point Bookshop in NSW, responding to...