Tuesday, 18 May 2010
In the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Jose Borghino, manager--industry representation at the Australian Publishers Association, reports from the International Publishers Association Copyright Symposium in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile, if you missed...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Cookbooks are very popular in the charts this week, as can be seen from Margaret Fulton, who has been publishing cookbooks since 1968. Fulton's name is so trusted by home...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
In March, the Weekly Book Newsletter reported on a petition and letter signed by around 100 prominent Australian authors against China's decision to refuse Robert Dessaix a visa due to...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
HarperCollins has choosen the five winners of the HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. Authors of the following manuscripts--potentially to become published works-- will be workshopped with the following HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books claims to have become Australia's first carbon-neutral online bookstore. The company has stated that ‘from May 2010, Boomerang Books will be subject to an annual...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Big W has become the first Australian-based discount department store to launch a major e-commerce website. The site will offer online purchasing of a wide range of items from across...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
In the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, Kabita Dhara reports on four months spent immersed in the Indian publishing industry. She attended book fairs and festivals, and uncovers the...

Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Apple has announced that its iPad will be released in Australia on 28 May, with prices ranging from A$629 to A$1049. The company has also announced that Australians will have...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Macmillan faces World Bank ban over Sudan 'bribery' allegationsCursor: 'a new business model for...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
May John Connolly, Hachette (The Whisperers) Neil Cross, S&S (Captured) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) Yiyun Li,...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Three-time author Wendy James wrote an interesting article in the Australian Literary Review this week about how she felt to be overshadowed by her younger sister Rebecca James, whose novel...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: 12-16 MayWordStorm: Festival of Australasian Writing, NT: 13-16 May Miles...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Darwin Wordstorm Festival The 2010 Darwin Wordstorm festival kicks off today, including guests such as Tim Flannery, Germaine Greer, Wendy Harmer, Morris Gleizman. The festival runs from 12 to 16 May. The...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010
On Fancy Goods this week Bookseller+Publisher reviewer Meredith Tate attends the Sydney launch of Beautiful Malice (Rebecca James, A&U); Katie Horner interviews Susan Maushart on The Winter of Our Disconnect...

Monday, 10 May 2010
Nam Le's The Boat (Penguin) has won the biennial Kathleen Mitchell Award. The award, for young Australian authors who are 29 years or less at the time of their book's...

Thursday, 6 May 2010
Dymocks has announced it has added titles in the ebook formats DNL and ePub to its ebook range. The bookselling chain, which has offered ebooks since 2007, said the two...

Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Following the Australian Publishers Association AGM in Sydney on Thursday 29 April, this year's recipients of the George Robertson Awards for distinguished service to the publishing industry were announced. All...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
The 2010 Back to Booktown event attracted 15,000 visitors and 60 booksellers to the small town of Clunes, Victoria, over the weekend of 1 and 2 May. Shopkeepers in Clunes...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Anthony Lawrence, author of Bark (UQP), has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Poetry Prize of $4000 for his poem 'Domestic Emergencies'. Five shortlisted poems were choosen from a field...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
May John Connolly, Hachette (The Whisperers)Neil Cross, S&S (Captured) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) Yiyun Li, HarperCollins...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi (Canongate) has just published a new book Beatrice and Virgil (Text), which is receiving mixed reviews...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
The combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes a report from Scholastic rights manager Claire Pretyman on the publishing climate and trends apparent at this year's Taipei book fair in Taiwan,...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
An initiative of the Australia Council, the newly launched website www.litmags.com.au brings together details about 10 Australian literary magazines. The titles featured on the website, which was launched today, are...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood has been shortlisted for this year's CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for ‘distinguished illustration in a book for children' for Harry and Hopper (Margaret Wild, Scholastic).The judges...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
The Booksellers New Zealand annual conference will be held in Auckland on Sunday 29 August. The event follows the New Zealand Post Book Awards, to be held on Friday 27...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
James Fraser, publishing director at Pan Macmillan Australia, has announced he is stepping down from the role and handing over to his deputy Cate Paterson. Fraser told the Sydney Morning...

Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Rhythm of the Wild: 7-8 May 2010PANZ workshop--Upskilling Opportunity for Nonfiction Editors: 11 May 2010Auckland Writers...