Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Due to a technical error, the following story appeared on the Bookseller+Publisher website but not in last week's Weekly Book Newsletter.Our apologies.West Australian Premier Colin Barnett announced the winners of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Publishing software and services company Publishing Technology has expanded into Australia, to service the Australian and New Zealand publishing markets. Previously represented in Australia by its local agent VISTA Computer...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Borders launches FourSquare promotionBorders has launched a promotional campaign using the location-based social network Foursquare. The Borders campaign will offer a 10% discount to every third Fourrsquare ‘check-in' at any...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Revenue in Wiley's Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said the Asia-Pacific full-year revenue of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
New ‘boutique publishing' company Ace Press has launched at www.acepress.com.au. Founded by former librarian and teacher Adrienne Sallay, the company launches with five titles: two adult fiction, one YA fiction...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Murder, mystery and mayhem seem to be the running themes dominating the top of the bestsellers chart this week with the crime novels Postcard Killers (James Patterson & Liza Marklund,...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Bolinda has launched an audiobook download solution for libraries, with plans to offer the solution to retailers next year, and to incorporate ebook downloads in the future. ‘Bolinda digital is...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, the first of the election titles goes to print, B Owen Baxter reviews Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee (A&U) and Clare Hintston speaks...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Inside the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you'll find a round-up of all those glorious cook books coming our way for Christmas.If you missed the September issue, you missed out on...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:backlist gets a digital afterlifeHighton to launch new imprintGoogle Editions to launch in Japan...

Monday, 13 September 2010
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Monday, 13 September 2010
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Monday, 13 September 2010
Vicki McAuley's Solo (Macmillan) was number one on the most mentioned chart this week. Andrew McCauley set off from Tasmania in a sea kayak in 2007, aiming to be the...

Monday, 13 September 2010
September Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan)Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books...

Monday, 13 September 2010
Joan Steiner, author and illustrator of the children's picture book series ‘Look-Alikes' (Little, Brown), has died. Steiner used common household items to create three-dimensional scenes including famous landmarks such as...

Monday, 13 September 2010
Novelist and biographer Elizabeth Jenkins has died recently, aged 104. Jenkins was a notable biographer of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb, Henry Fielding and Elizabeth I.

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
HarperCollins has announced its US imprint Eos Books will be rebranded as HarperVoyager ‘joining together with the celebrated Voyager imprints in Australia/New Zealand and the UK'. Michael Moynahan, HarperCollins CEO...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The release of Tony Blair's memoir A Journey: My Political Life (Hutchinson) has been eagerly awaited both by reviewers and book buyers. In the book, Blair addresses two of the most...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Write around the Murray Festival: 8-12 September 2010Evening with Fethiye Cetin: 12 September 2010To view...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010
September Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan)Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:will 'the death of the book' extend to universities?Shatzkin: how can publishers move...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival has recorded a 10% increase in the number of tickets sold in 2010 and said the festival had ‘maintained record attendances of 50,000'. It was Steve...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Christchurch Writers Festival, which was due to take place from 9 to 12 September, has been cancelled due to the Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks.The biennial event had been...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), which had...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Thanks to Murdoch Books and Rialto Distribution, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 20 in-season double passes to give away for the second film in the 'Millennium Trilogy', The Girl Who...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
American editor Larry Ashmead has died, aged 78. He worked for several large publishing houses, such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, where he edited the books of Susan...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday 5 September after five days of events--and some impromptu African drumming--at the State Library of Queensland. Typically, the big names drew the...