Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Ransom (David Malouf, Knopf) has been named the winner of this year's ALS Gold Medal. Ransom beat The Darwin Poems (Emily Ballou, UWA Publishing); The Lost Life (Steven Carroll, Fourth...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
The management team of membership-based retailer Doubleday Australia has purchased the company from its former owners Bertelsmann under the entity A&WN Trust. Doubleday Australia managing director Andrew Nikas will continue...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
'It is impossible to compete with an organisation that is prepared to lose money'--Hachette Australia managing director Malcolm Edwards, referring to online bookseller The Book Depository during the Australian Booksellers...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Justin Cronin's novel The Passage was among the five titles that tied for top spot in our most mentioned chart this week (also up there were Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
JulyAyaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Joe Bennett, S&S (Hello Dubai)Isobelle Carmody, Penguin (The Red Wind)Duncan Lay, HarperCollins...

Monday, 12 July 2010
UK-based independent publisher Quercus has announced that it is moving its Australian and New Zealand distribution from Murdoch Books to Pan Macmillan, commencing 1 January 2011.Quercus' sales will be handled...

Monday, 12 July 2010
Award-winning Queensland-born author Jessica Anderson has died, aged 93. Anderson won the 1978 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Tirra Lirra By the River and the 1980 Miles Franklin...

Friday, 9 July 2010
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its premier design award for the best book has been renamed the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book, sponsored by...

Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon offers small publishers 70% royalty rateRingle wins Bulwer-Lytton with worst sentenceAgents hold...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Author Philip McLaren has launched the new publishing business Cockatoo Books. A family company run by McLaren and his partner Roslyn and their son and daughter, Cockatoo Books has launched...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool has reopened under new ownership. ‘Collins Booksellers is pleased to announce Collins Warrnambool has recently been purchased by Lyle, Tracey and Rowan Willersdorf,' Collins Booksellers managing director...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Text Publishing has announced the shortlist for its 2010 prize for YA and children's writing. The titles shortlisted for the prize for an unpublished manuscript are: Haunting the Dead by Tiffany...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Atlas Monographs by Australian photographer Max Pam (T&G Publishing) has won the 2010 ‘Best Photography Book Prize (International Category)' at the PHotoEspaña photography festival in Madrid. The book's publisher Gianni...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
if:book Australia launches new site and seminar seriesif:book Australia has launched a new website at www.futureofthebook.org.au and kicks off a new series of seminars tonight in Sydney. Tonight's event, Digital...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
In rights news this week: Fiction--Allen & Unwin has sold Chinese complex character rights for One Foot Wrong (Sofie Laguna); French rights for Lovesong (Alex Miller) to Phebus; Italian rights...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
On the blog this week, we spoke to Fullers Bookshop owner Clive Tilsley about his current reading choices, we celebrate the arrival of the August issue of the magazine and...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
The August issue of Bookseller+Publisher contains more than 40 reviews. Among our reviewers' top picks were Chris Womersley's Bereft (Scribe, September), Like Being a Wife (Catherine Harris, Vintage, September), Shaun...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
‘Readings--like many of the other booksellers present tonight--enjoys tremendous relationships with you, our suppliers, but let's face it, we all together have to continue to lift our game to have...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE, author of Master Georgie and An Awfully Big Adventure, has died, aged 75. Bainbridge was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times.

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
UK writer and publisher Russell Ash has died aged of 64. Ash worked at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Pavilion and his own company Ash & Grant, and was author of reference...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
JulyAyaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Joe Bennett, S&S (Hello Dubai)Isobelle Carmody, Penguin (The Red Wind)Duncan Lay, HarperCollins...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Redmond Barry Lecture: 7 JulyAssociation for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference 2010: 7-10 JulyOnline...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Fremantle Press has launched an ebook section on its website.The publisher, which has made ebooks available for some time through ebooks.com, added a new section to its website at www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/ebooks...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Sizzling Sixteen (Janet Evanovich, Hachette) is the latest romance-mystery-thriller from the series featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Sizzling Sixteen is number one on the highest new entries chart this week....

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
The Passage (Justin Cronin, Orion) certainly came with some compelling publicity–movie rights picked up by Ridley Scott before the book was even finished–but it wasn’t enough to bump two Australian...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Lonely Planet has ‘moved from a loss of £(3.2)million [$A5.7 million] last year to a profit of £1.9million [A$3.4 million] ', according to the 2009/10 full-year financial report of parent...