Tuesday, 17 May 2011
MayDaniel Altman, Black Inc. (Outrageous Fortunes) Sydney.Georgia Blain, Random House (Too Close to Home) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leslie Cannold, Text (The Book of Rachael) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Cassandra Clare, Walker...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The finalists for this year's Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as the R*BY Awards, have been announced. The finalists are:Long Romance category:The Accidental Wedding (Anne Gracie, Berkley)Instant Family...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Funding for the Get Reading! initiative will be cut by $1.6 million over the next four years. The funding cut outlined in the federal government's budget papers means the Get...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews Charlie Burr and the Three Stolen Dollars (Sally Morgan, Ambelin, Blaze & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, illus by Peter Sheehan, Little Hare Books), Rebecca...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival was launched last night with a sell-out opening address from Pakistani poet and author Fatima Bhutto. Bhutto spoke on the subject of her country as...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
HarperCollins has announced a new global supply chain partnership with printer and distributor RR Donnelley, which will involve the US-based distributor RR Donnelley establishing print on demand operations in Australia and the United...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph), an instructional cookbook designed for the time-poor chef, is still at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, followed by Jodie Picoult's...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
In the June issue of Bookseller+Publisher we round up the titles due for release in the second half of the year that publishers are most excited about, from What the...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'The inevitable disappearance of the vast majority of bookshops': Luke Johnsononly 20% of US...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
'People forget the book is technology. The book itself, the printed artefact, is technology.'--Queensland Writers Centre CEO Kate Eltham discussing The Future of the Book on the ABC's First Tuesday...

Monday, 16 May 2011
The 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize has been awarded to Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance (Craig Potton Publishing). Judges of the...

Monday, 16 May 2011
The winners of this year's Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each of the book-related categories are:$1000 Dymocks Arafura Short Story Award: Sophie Constable ('Khmoc')$1000 Dymocks Red...

Monday, 16 May 2011
The winners of the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards were announced on Monday 16 May as part of this year's Sydney Writers' Festival. The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, worth $40,000, was...

Sunday, 15 May 2011
Lonely Planet informed staff at its Melbourne office last week that as many as 70 jobs will be lost as part of a restructure that will result in the publisher relocating a substantial part...

Sunday, 15 May 2011
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern) by Alasdair McGregor has won this year's $20,000 National Biography Award, announced Monday 16 May...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has announced that Chinese author Liao Yiwu has been denied permission to leave China to attend this year's festival for 'security reasons'. Liao has also been...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Australian ebook retailer Booku has reported strong sales in its first two months, with close to 2000 ebooks sold since its launch in March. Booku managing director Clayton Wehner said...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has sought legal advice on behalf of a number of its members who have not been paid for speaking engagements at schools organised by...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
New Zealand-born poet, printer and editor Alan Loney is the recipient of the 2011 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award, worth NZ$10,000 (approximately A$7350).  Loney, who now lives in Australia, published...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Children's book author Andy Griffiths launched a new book in two Northern Territory communities as part of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation's Book Buzz initiative. The book, which Griffiths launched on a...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Kate O’Donnell reviewsThe Dead I Know (Scot Gardner, A&U), Andrea Hanke interviews S J Watson on Before I Go to Sleep (Text Publishing) and Rebecca...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
‘A big chunk of the blame for why the publishing industry is as slow-moving, old-fashioned and afraid of change as it is lies at the feet of authors'--writer and editor...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The June issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 27 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. You can read some of the highest rated titles here. The June issue also includes a...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Scribe has licensed UK rights to Little People (Jane Sullivan) to Allen & Unwin UK for publication in the first half of 2012; and sold Dutch...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins), a novel inspired by Caleb Cheeshahteamauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, is top of the fastest movers chart this week. The story...

Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'The publisher is now much more than the publisher'Shatzkin predicts a subscription model for...