Tuesday, 12 July 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin, the winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced at the National Library in Canberra on Friday 8 July. The fiction...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
The publication of Julian Assange's memoirs is now in doubt following indications from the WikiLeaks founder that he no longer wishes to write the kind of book that was envisaged...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's--Fremantle Press has sold simplified Chinese language rights in a four-book deal to 21st Century Publishing House, through Andrew Nurnberg Associates. The books are Crow...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Brush up on your knowledge of the Father's Day titles on offer this year.From page 20 of the August issue, Andrew Wrathall rounds up the highlights from publishers' Father's Day...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look inside the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Max Oliver reviews Rome: A Personal, Visual and Cultural History (Robert Hughes, Weidenfeld & Nicolson),...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
 ‘We're certainly hoping the parallel importation restrictions will be removed and removed quickly so we can bring cheaper prices to books in this country and ... compete with online retail,...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Hachette acquires 25% stake in Russian publishershould India allow parallel imports?UK Booksellers and Publishers...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Lauren Kate's Passion (Doubleday) retains first place on the bestsellers chart for the third week in a row, while Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) is back in second...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
NewSouth Books has announced the formation of a new division of its distribution business this week. The new division, which will be called TowerToo, will be managed by Dale Druckman...

Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Lea McInerney has been announced as the winner of this year's Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award. The award, worth $5000, is supported by Reader's Feast general manager Mary Dalmau, and will...

Monday, 11 July 2011
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that international authors Jonathan Franzen, Ann Patchett, Eva Gabrielsson and Simone Felice will appear at the 2011 festival, which runs from 7 to 11...

Monday, 11 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Mildura Writers Festival: 14-17 JulyBooksellers NZ 90th Annual Conference: 16-18 JulyPANZ AGM, Wellington: 17 July Whitsunday...

Monday, 11 July 2011
The winning titles of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards were among this week's most mentioned. Traitor (Stephen Daisley, Text), which took the fiction prize, is Daisley's debut novel on the...

Monday, 11 July 2011
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Monday, 11 July 2011
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Monday, 11 July 2011
JulyTristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835: The...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The finalists for this year's New Zealand book industry awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are:Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island)Benny's...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia has been left without a major sponsor, following an announcement from Citibank that it will no longer financially support the festival....

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has rebranded its publishing division. The publishing division of UNSW Press will now be known as NewSouth Publishing and all new titles from July...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Scholastic will cease funding the Dromkeen Foundation, including the National Centre for Picture Book Art, at the end of next year. Director of the Dromkeen Foundation John Oldmeadow told the...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.Scott received the medal at the opening of the Annual Conference of the Association for...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Get Reading! year-long touring program will begin this month, ahead of preparations for this year's Get Reading! campaign which will run between 1 and 30 September. The first authors...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
'The combination of Amazon and [the Book Depository] might actually have a claim to be Australia's biggest bookseller: and one with no presence in the country'--the Bookseller's Philip Jones, blogging...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
What does it take to be a successful literary agent? 'It helps to have some skills in finance, psychology, invisible mending, diplomacy, oration, negotiating, and knowledge of law, grammar, all...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The shortlist for the Nielsen BookData 2011 Booksellers Choice Awards has been announced. The Booksellers Choice Award recognises an Australian new release that booksellers most enjoyed reading, marketing and handselling...