Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon announces new Kindle serviceB&N founder maintains control of boardIndependent UK bookseller outperforms marketWomen...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
John Ajvide Lindqvist, the Swedish master of horror, has rewritten the lore on vampires and zombies. Now in his third novel Harbour he redefines the 'ghost' story. To celebrate this release...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: PEN's 76th International Congress: 25 September - 1 OctoberAustralian Society of Authors ‘Authorpreneur' Seminar: 30...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Petros Demetriou, who was the CCO at DA Information Services, has died. DA Information Services writes:‘DA Information Services sadly announces that Petros Demetriou, our CCO, passed away peacefully on 20...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Jim Atkinson, who was the national president of the Printing Industries Association of Australia, has died. Atkinson spent more than 40 years working in the printing industry.Printing Industries chief executive...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) Christine Bongers, Random House (Henry Hoey Hobson)Steph Bowe, Text (Girl Saves Boy) Ian Brown, Scribe...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Educational publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Australia has discontinued selling International Editions (IE) of 33 of its titles in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) in order to ‘restore the competitiveness of...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Varuna, the Writers' House, has announced that creative director Peter Bishop has stepped down from his position after 17 years with the writers' centre. Bishop plans to pursue his own...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Readings bookstore in St Kilda, Melbourne, will officially launch its new look this weekend with two days of celebrations. The Acland Street store recently closed for less than 48 hours...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Simon & Schuster Australia has moved offices to Cammeray over the weekend. The publisher, previously located at Pymble, made the move to be closer to the Sydney CBD. Managing director,...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
NewsCorp, parent company of HarperCollins Australia has reported an increase in its book publishing sector's operating income. HarperCollins globally reported full-year segment operating income of US$88 million (A$91), an increase...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Little Bookroom in Melbourne will celebrate its 50th anniversary on the 13 October. The children's bookstore first opened its doors in the Melbourne CBD on the 13 October, 1960....

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The shortlisted titles for this year's Colin Roderick Award have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:The Water Dreamers (Michael Cathcart, Text Publishing)Piano Lessons (Anna Goldsworhty, Black Inc.)The Lake Woman (Alan...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has announced that it will host a festival in Sydney for the first time this year. The one-day mini festival will be held on Sunday...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Random House Australia has announced that it is recalling the book Evil in the Suburbs by Cindy Wockner and Michael Porta for legal reasons. The publisher announced today that publication...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Candida Baker has replaced Jeni Caffin as Director of the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre and the Byron Bay Writers' Festival. Caffin, who programmed the Byron Bay Writers' Festival for the...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Lisa Lang's Utopian Man (A&U) received the most mentions this week. Set in 1880s Melbourne, before the Depression of the 1890s, it features eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole owner of...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The winners of the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced last night at a presentation dinner at Zinc in Federation Square, Melbourne. Traditionally held at the close of the Melbourne Writers Festival,...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Osmond on exchange to Random House UKRandom House Australia marketing and publicity director and head of digital Brett Osmond is on a three-month secondment to Random House UK. ‘I'm here as...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Australian Booksellers Association writes: ‘Harry was involved in bookshops and books for a majority of his life and was a very talented gentleman.‘A man who was involved in book illustration...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's--Scholastic has sold Portuguese rights within Portugal to Gabrielle Lord's 12 book ‘Conspiracy 365' and Chinese complex character rights to I Love My Mum, I...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Ingram has announced it will establish ‘a full-scale Lightning Source print-on-demand book manufacturing operation in Australia'. A company spokesperson told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the exact location of the...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Anita Heiss has won the 2010 Deadly award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her novel Manhattan Dreaming (Random House). Heiss told the Weekly Book Newsletter that, unlike major literary...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
There has been no movement at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
New Zealand's Ministry of Education has announced that it will cease production of its TUPU series of Pacific Island materials from December this year. Education Minister Anne Tolley has said...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Australian Financial Review reported last week that copyright laws in Australia will be reviewed in the near future. The AFR reported that the federal government is set to ask...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Deborah Crabtree reviews Paul Kelly's How to Make Gravy (Hamish Hamilton), Charlotte Harper rounds up the discussion at the recent Sony forum on ebooks and...

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Kaye Keck, director of the Dromkeen Gallery, died this month. She was 64 years of age. Keck's brother John Oldmeadow writes:‘Kaye Keck absorbed so much about the book trade almost...