Tuesday, 8 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt interviews Gail Jones on ‘Five Bells’ (Vintage) and Angela Meyer reviews ‘Yearn’ (Tobsha Learner, HarperCollins).

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Major players in the ebook retailing market appear to be facing a challenge to their current online retailing model, following a move by Apple that could net the company up to 30% of revenue...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Global ebook distributor OverDrive has announced that it has expanded its monthly 'Most Downloaded Books from the Library' lists to include territory-specific charts, including one for Australian libraries which use...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
In rights news this week:  SalesFiction--HarperCollins has sold White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Tuscan Rose (all by Belinda Alexandra) to Hungary; and Mercy and Exile (both by Rebecca Lim) to...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Bloomsbury, which opened an office in Australia this year, has announced the appointment of Alexandra Pringle to the new role of coordinating acquisitions for Bloomsbury operations in Australia, the US,...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
'We want world rights where ever possible,' Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin says, as the company announces a restructure to meet the challenges of globalisation.

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:NYT launches ebook bestseller listbook bloggers boost Book DepositoryCanada's largest book distributor files for...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 63 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, the first Junior supplement for the year and a look at developments in printing and...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Brian Jacques, children's book author of the New York Times bestselling 'Redwall' series, has died aged 71. Jacques' 22nd and final book in the series, The Rogue Crew (Philomel), is...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Joyce Nicholson Thorpe, founder of the Weekly Book Newsletter, died in late January aged 91.Publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter Tim Coronel writes:'We are very sad to hear of the death...

Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Vivienne Brophy, who was editor of D W Thorpe's journal The Australian Newsagent & Stationer, passed away peacefully at her home this week.Brophy was appointed as a full-time senior editor...

Monday, 7 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Taipei International Book Exhibition: 9-14 February Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia Seminar on Book...

Monday, 7 February 2011
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Monday, 7 February 2011
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Monday, 7 February 2011
February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House (Alice Miranda series) Armidale, Southern...

Monday, 7 February 2011
It's no surprise that both Gail Jones' Five Bells (Vintage) and Annie Proulx's Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) have appeared in Media Extra for the second time in a row--fans of...

Monday, 7 February 2011
New Zealand fiction writers Sue Orr and Mark Broatch have been announced as the recipients of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Orr and Broatch will each receive a NZ$20,000...

Monday, 7 February 2011
Wellington-based author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi has won this year's Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award. De Goldi received the award, which is presented annually by the...

Monday, 7 February 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the establishment of a new Training Fund. PANZ said in a statement last week that individual PANZ members will be able...

Monday, 7 February 2011
Founder and Chair of Acorn Press Ltd, Bishop John Wilson, has died aged 73. Wilson was an academic theologian and a significant figure in the Anglican Church in Australia. His...

Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Former publishing director of Penguin New Zealand Geoff Walker has established a new publishing consultancy business in Auckland. Walker told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he will work with authors,...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Juliet Rogers has stepped down from her position as CEO of Murdoch Books. Murdoch Books announced today that Rogers, who has already finished in her role, will be replaced by Bruce Hallett,...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Robert Sutton's Good Boss, Bad Boss (Hachette), a corporate guide book that delves into the nitty-gritty of what the best (and worst) bosses do, tops the highest new entries chart...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
The Five Mile Press has announced that Poppy Grijalbo and Nick Matthews have joined the company in the roles of publisher and finance and operations director, respectively. Managing director of...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
SalesFiction--Scribe has sold UK rights for Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor) to Atlantic Books. Allen & Unwin has sold Spanish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex and Russian rights for...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
‘The question is really when, not if, most ebooks will move to the cloud'--Martin Taylor, director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum, praising the new Readings ebookstore, which uses ‘in the...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt reviews Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage) and Sharon Athanasos reviews The Very Bad Book (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan...