Tuesday, 18 October 2011
‘All other things being equal, I can see a global ebook marketplace that some years from now is 90-95% controlled by Amazon, Apple, Kobo, and a local player in each...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Music distributor Fuse Group Australia has entered into the local book distribution market, taking on a number of international publishers. Fuse Group represents Taschen Books, Trolley Books and Adelita in...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape). Barnes, who was the bookies' favourite to win the award, was...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The National Year of Reading 2012 initiative has announced a shortlist of titles in each Australian state and territory that will be voted on in order to determine a national...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Overdrive, distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries, has announced it will soon launch 'WIN catalogs' in the US. The catalogue will feature longtail collections of ebook titles, over 90% of...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Sisters in Crime Australia celebrated its 20th anniversary at the 2011 SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers' Convention, held in Melbourne between 7 and 9 October. Sisters in Crime national co-convenor...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The love between schoolgirl Nora and fallen angel Patch has transcended the boundary between heaven and earth. After overcoming the secrets of Patch’s dark past and facing heart-wrenching tests along...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Marion Rankine reviews Autumn Laing (Alex Miller, A&U), Margaret Hamilton reviews Once There was a Boy...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pan Mac team with Curtis Brown for digital backlistePub3 format finalisedWylie: 50% digital royalty...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Andrew Wilkins reports:As the stands were being dismantled in Hall 8 last Sunday afternoon and German shoppers starting to swarm in search of last-minute bargains, Australians at the Frankfurt Book...

Monday, 17 October 2011
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize winners announcedCarrie Tiffany and Gregory Day are the joint winners of the 2011 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Tiffany was...

Monday, 17 October 2011
Mark Tredinnick has won first place in this year's Newcastle Poetry Prize, presented in September. Tredinnick's poem 'The Wombat Vedas' was selected from a shortlist of 23 poems for the...

Monday, 17 October 2011
The longlist for the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced on 17 October. The longlisted titles are:Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble (Geesche Jacobsen, A&U)Mahabharata in...

Monday, 17 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia 'Book of the Year' Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are:Young ChildrenCan We Lick the Spoon...

Sunday, 16 October 2011
Three Australian authors and two New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. Australian authors...

Thursday, 13 October 2011
In rights news this week:  SalesFiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold The Wounded Guardian (Duncan Lay, Voyager) to Germany. Nonfiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold Gods and Diseases: Making Sense of Our Physical and...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Australian fantasy and science-fiction magazine Aurealis has been re-launched as a free epublication. The latest issue of the magazine, Aurealis #45, has been released and is available to download from...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Australia Post has announced a number of changes to its parcel delivery services this week, in response to what it calls 'the internet shopping boom'. Australia Post managing director and...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes nine reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles and a preview of the best biographies and nonfiction titles this Christmas. Eloise Keating looks...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Tim Coronel reviews The Cook (Wayne Macauley, Text), Heath Graham reviews Goliath: Leviathan Book 3 (Scott Westerfeld, illus by Keith Thompson, Viking), Fiona Crawford reviews...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Text Publishing writes: 'There would be no Text Publishing Company without Diana Gribble. She founded our company in 1990,...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
A survey conducted by UNSW Bookshop has found that more than 50% of students prefer to purchase printed textbooks when given the choice between printed textbooks and electronic versions. Of...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
After a woman is found gruesomely murdered in a small town situated near a large military base, Major Jack Reacher is sent in undercover to find the killer. The Affair (Lee...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Island Magazine will continue to be produced in 2012 following the announcement by the Australia Council's Literature Board that it will fund the publication in 2012 with a one-off grant...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards were announced at this year's SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers' Convention in Melbourne on 8 October. The winning titles in...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
'It is not "privileged whining" to point out statistics relevant to gender bias in the literary world'--author Tara Moss, responding to Age arts critic Cameron Woodhead's comments on her blog...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon launches sci-fi and horror imprintNielsen reports print sales in declineGoogle launches ebook store...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The shortlists for the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Best Book in Higher Education Publishing...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Andrew Wilkins reports for Bookseller+Publisher:While the world's largest book fair opens officially for business today (Wednesday) in Frankfurt, thousands of trade visitors have already been in town for a couple...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Organisers report that audience figures grew by 20% at the 2011 ANZ Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival director Janet DeNeefe told the...