Monday, 21 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Auckland on 17 November. The winning and highly commended titles in each of the...

Monday, 21 November 2011
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that publisher James Fraser will retire from the company at the end of this year. Fraser spent 25 years in the role of publishing director...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Barbara Grier, co-founder of Naiad Press, has died aged 78. Naiad Press (sold to Bella Books in 2003) was once the world's largest publishing house dedicated to gay and lesbian...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Peter Roebuck, ABC cricket commentator, newspaper columnist and author, has died in South Africa, aged 55.Patrick Gallagher, Allen & Unwin chairman and publisher of three of Roebuck's books, writes:‘It was...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The New South Wales government has announced that it has appointed a panel to review the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards. Arts NSW said in...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Arnie Avery by Sue Walker (Walker Books) has won this year's Children's Peace Literature Award. The biennial award, worth $2000, is presented by the Psychologists for Peace, a South Australian-based...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
In recent rights news:SalesFiction--Scribe has sold German and Croatian rights in Bereft (Chris Womersley) to DVA, an imprint of Random House and Fraktura respectively; Portuguese rights to the ‘Jack Susko'...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Eloise Keating reviews Women of Letters (ed by Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy, Viking); Max Oliver reviews Jane Gleeson White's ‘riveting book' on...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 37 reviews of Australian and New Zealand titles published in December to April 2012 and a feature on forthcoming health and leisure titles. It...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
In Michael Connelly's latest novel, The Drop (A&U), LAPD detective Harry Bosch is not far from retirement when he's handed two cases to solve. In the pursuit of both, he...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
‘This report will not reduce the price of books and will not improve supply chain efficiencies to the extent required to keep customers coming into Australian bookstores (Prices stay up...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised more than $420,000 this year to fund efforts to improve literacy levels and the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kobo launches ad-supported Touch reader in the USUS Authors Guild voices concerns about Amazon...

Monday, 14 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November ABA NSW Branch Christmas Party & NSW/ACT Sales Rep of...

Monday, 14 November 2011
All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has published a volume of speeches and occasional pieces in After Words: The...

Monday, 14 November 2011
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Monday, 14 November 2011
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Monday, 14 November 2011
NovemberJohn Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and Melbourne.Janelle Bloom, Ebury (My Favourite Food for...

Monday, 14 November 2011
John Ivimey, founder and proprietor of Boat Books (opened 1965) and The Cookery Book (opened 1985) has died.Jennifer Ivimey, his daughter, writes:‘Dad was entrepreneurial in his approach to business, and his bookshops...

Monday, 14 November 2011
We Need To Talk About Kevin, an adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel, is told through the eyes of Eva, an anguished mother who struggles to connect with her son,...

Monday, 14 November 2011
The winners of this year's Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children's choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are:Picture storybooksMr Chicken Goes...

Monday, 14 November 2011
The shortlist for the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted authors are:Amy Espeseth (Trouble Telling the Weather)Andrew Lindsay (Manly)Hugo Wilcken (The Reflection). The...

Sunday, 13 November 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble (Geesche Jacobsen, A&U) King Brown...

Sunday, 13 November 2011
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, DVDs and other products to customers in Australia...

Sunday, 13 November 2011
New pop-up stores from Arcade teamDale Campisi and Michael Brady from Arcade Publications have launched a new retail venture and postal service in Melbourne, called Melbournalia. The Melbournalia stores, which will...