Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has released details about its 2012 School Days program, to be held between 21 and 25 May 2012. Among the authors participating in the Primary School...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that exports and events manager Kathy Fulcher has finished in her position. Maree McCaskill, CEO of the APA, told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher Andrew Rankin takes a look at the best biographies, memoirs and nonfiction titles on offer for Christmas 2011. To receive the magazine, contact subscriptions...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Czech writer and diplomat Jiri Grusa, former head of the PEN International writers' organisation, has died aged 72. Grusa wrote Mimner in 1969 and The Questionnaire in 1978. In a...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Julian Barnes' short novel, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape), winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, is at the top of the fastest movers chart this...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Text Publishing has sold Canadian rights in The Cook (Wayne Macauley) to Penguin Canada; and UK rights in Me and Mr Booker (Cory Taylor) to Sandstone...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Portia Lindsay reviews Steven Amsterdam's What the Family Needed (Sleepers Publishing), Andrea Hanke talks to Di Morrisey about writing 20 novels in 20 years, and...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 World Fantasy Awards were announced during the World Fantasy Convention, held in San Diego from 27 to 30 October. Among the winners were Alisa Krasnostein...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Reader's Feast is likely to re-open in Melbourne in late November. On Twitter and Facebook the bookstore, which operated from the corner of Bourke and Swanston streets in Melbourne's CBD...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis has told CBC News that his company will offer a publishing arm. 'It's part of the new market and if you expect to be a number...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Discount-focussed bookselling chain AllBooks4Less has announced the appointment of David Bolitho to the position of CEO. Bolitho will be responsible for ‘both the retail casual leasing business (shops) and the...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:BookScan analyses the 'Booker bump'WSJ to launch ebook bestseller listsGoogle ebook store opens in...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The 2011 Australian Campus Booksellers Association tertiary supplier of the year awards were announced at the ACBA conference on Thursday 27 October in Melbourne. John Wiley took out the overall...

Wednesday, 2 November 2011
'Barriers to entry into the online retail supply of books were relatively low with the availability of third party sales platforms such as Amazon marketplace and the use of drop...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The winners of this year's Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children's choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winning and honour titles in each...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Kobo devices available for order from CollinsKobo devices are now available to order online from Collins Booksellers. The bookseller will sell the Kobo Wireless Ereader for $139.99, and the new...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The longlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Award was announced on 29 October at this year's Singapore Writers Festival. The longlisted titles are:The Wandering Falcon (Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Hamish...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The Australian and New Zealand nominees for the 2012 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List have been announced. The Australian section of IBBY has selected...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Lonely Planet has launched its Shared Publishing Platform, which allows for faster production of guidebooks. The platform, which began development two years ago, allows authors to create content that can...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Inky Awards were announced on Tuesday 25 October. The Gold Inky (Australian books) was awarded to James Moloney for Silvermay (HarperVoyager). The Silver Inky (international...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
In times of war two centuries apart, two distinct worlds are linked by a single family and the house in which they live. Based on the classic novel The Chimneys...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) event in Brisbane in October attracted an audience of 200, with organisers describing the event as going 'remarkably well'. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Digital publishing is challenging business models, the relationships between publishers and authors--and the contracts that govern them.In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Andrea Hanke speaks to two contracts experts...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
‘Something has to give. We can't keep pumping out books at prices that seem high by international standards, and that consumers aren't prepared to pay... The solution we've come up...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Andrea Hanke reviews On Shakespeare (John Bell, A&U), Heath Graham interviews Miles Franklin winner Andrew McGahan on his first YA novel The Coming of the Whirlpool (A&U),...