Monday, 30 August 2010
September 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,...

Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Random House has sold Hell on the Way to Heaven (Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy) to Italy, The Sixth Wave (James Bradfield Moody & Bianca...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness for over a year, and...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Beijing Book Fair: 30 August-3 SeptemberMelbourne Writers Festival: 28 August-5 SeptemberBrisbane Writers Festival: 1-5 SeptemberAPA...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic in Australia, and Freedom (Jonathan...

Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
There was a time a couple of years back when this book wouldn't leave the top 10 bestseller charts, and now Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) is back on...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on Friday, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 20 August. The winners...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Australian author Geraldine Brooks has been named the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. Brooks' most recent novel, People of the Book (HarperPerennial), is based...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Australia-based children's author Frane Lessac has been awarded the 2010 Muriel Barwell Award. The Muriel Barwell Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature is a biennial award of The Children's...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Bookshop websites dominate the ‘online retail (media and entertainment)' category shortlist for the 2010 AMBER Awards. The websites for Booktopia, Dymocks, Fishpond and the ABC shop are all finalists in...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK ebook price war 'absurd'; 'industry populated by nincompoops'Seth Godin abandons traditional print publishingUS...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
‘We're in effect being intellectually impoverished by the way ebook market is evolving. An American reader has more access to much more reading (listening) than an Australian reader. The Australian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
In rights news this week: Children's--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to The Phoenix Files (Chris Morphew); Simplified Chinese language rights to Zac Power (H I Larry); French Canadian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Andrea Hanke recommends some picture books for Father's Day, Lachlan Jobbins reviews The Genesis Flaw (L A Larkin, Pier 9) and Hannah Cartmel...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Monash University's publishing unit, currently known as Monash University ePress, is set to change its business plan with the launch of Monash University Publishing on 8 September. ‘From the launch...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The feedback from the Indigenous Literacy Project's Songs for Stories event held at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday night has been ‘absolutely fantastic', event organiser Kristen Gill told the Weekly...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Possession wins 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize Possession by Bain Attwood (MUP) has won the 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize, a special one-time award presented at the 2010 Victoria Community History Awards....

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
New Zealand ebook converter MeBooks has launched at www.mebooks.co.nz. The site has been created by Jason Darwin, who told the Weekly Book Newsletter he had had ‘a mixed career in...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Children’s Book Week running from 21 to 27 August, with the theme of 'across the story bridge', has children participating in classrooms Australia-wide.The Book Week is the longest-running children's festival...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 17th annual Storylines Festival of NZ Writers and Illustrators has completed a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, reaching thousands of New Zealanders, young and old, to participate in and...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 2010 Get Reading! campaign kicks off today. This year's ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' includes 28 books available in ebook format, as well as 18 available as audio...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Children's Book Week: 21-27 AugustABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 AugustILP: I Heart Art fundraising evening: 25 AugustSydney Jewish...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Well, the weekend's election result (or lack thereof) may have taken some by surprise, but it's not exactly a shock that an election-related title topped the most mentioned chart this...