Tuesday, 21 September 2010
John Singleton, owner of the advertising agency Banjo, and Kevin Weldon, founder of the Macquarie Dictionary, have announced they will launch a new publishing house, Australia's Heritage Publishing, on Australia...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Australia-based ebook software company DNAML has announced it will auction its domain name www.ebook.com. The company, which said it had provided ‘over 4.7 million ebook downloads over the past year...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced it is developing a digital edition of the magazine to be released in 2011, in celebration of the magazine's 50th birthday. Deputy editor...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Wiley Australia has announced that managing director Heather Linaker will be leaving the role at the end of November. ‘Heather assumed this role in September 2008 during a period when...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
‘The frustration felt by authors not being able to access the ebooks they want to read is the same frustration felt by readers and booksellers when confronted by some of...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
In New Zealand, journalist and publisher Dame Christine Cole Catley and journalist and author Steve Braunias have each been presented with a CLL Writers' Award by Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL)....

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Morris Gleitzman has been shortlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize for the second year in a row. Gleitzman's novel Then was shortlisted in 2009; his follow-up and the third...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Borders cuts Kobo priceBorders Australia has announced it has dropped the price of its Kobo eReader to $179, down from $199. Harris tour cancelledHachette Australia has confirmed that ‘Sookie Stackhouse'...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Allen and Unwin has announced that executive director Paul Donovan will step down from his full-time role at the end of February 2011. Donovan, who joined the company from the Hill...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to Blossoms and Shadows (Lian Hearn, Hachette) have been sold to Quercus via agent Sarah...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Kaye Keck, director of the Dromkeen Gallery, died on Tuesday 14 September, surrounded by her family. Keck was a passionate supporter of Australian children's literature and illustration and oversaw developments...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Prior to the cinema release of the The Girl Who Played with Fire adaptation, Steig Larrsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Quercus) and The Girl with the Dragon...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Rachel Wilson talks to Monica McInerney about At Home with the Templetons (Michael Joseph), we round-up some of our reviewers' top picks from...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Inside the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you'll find 45 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. On our Fancy Goods blog we've rounded up some of our reviewers' top...

Monday, 20 September 2010
The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge) by local author Patrick Holland is at the top of the most mentioned chart this week. Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene...

Monday, 20 September 2010
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 and...

Monday, 20 September 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann has died aged 80.  The author won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for his book Exploration and Empire. His book Beyond the Revolution, which...

Monday, 20 September 2010
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Online Australian bookseller Booktopia reports that it has made it onto the BRW Fast 100 list for the second year in a row. The announcement of the annual list of...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Hungarian rights to Dog Boy (Eva Hornung, Text).Nonfiction--Black Inc. has sold North American rights to Frugavore: How to Grow...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:The 9th Overload Poetry Festival: 10-19 SeptemberSony ebook forum: 16 September, SydneyREDgroup conference: 21-22 SeptemberALIA Hunter...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced it will implement the inaugural Queensland Writers Week (QWW) from 11 to 17 October. The week-long event will be an ‘open literary festival',...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
‘My idea of hell is a website with 80,000 self-published works on it--some of which might be jewels, but, frankly, who's got the time? What people want is selection and...

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The late Australian author Maria Quinn has won the inaugural Norma K Hemming Award for excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, class and sexuality in speculative fiction,...

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...