Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Children’s writer Patricia Wrightson OBE, has died aged 88. She was awarded the Dromkeen Medal in 1984 and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. She won the Australian Children’s...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Publisher and editor Anne Bower Ingram OAM, has died aged 72. She won the Lady Cutler Award in 1984 and the Dromkeen medal in 1985. In 1988 she established the...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Due to the Easter Monday holiday, next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 8 April.   The deadline for classified and job advertisements will therefore be 12...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
‘Book futurist' Richard Nash will be a guest speaker at this year's Australian Booksellers Association national conference in July.   He told Bookseller+Publisher: ‘Publishing 3.0 could be called Publishing Ground...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched the program for its 2010 national conference.   The 86th ABA Conference & Trade Exhibition will be held from 11 to 13 July...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Lonely Planet has confirmed it has made some changes to its print and digital teams.   ‘We have been very open saying we are moving from traditional book publishing to...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
John Wiley & Sons has confirmed three positions in its Melbourne office have been made redundant.   The redundancies are the result of a plan to centralise the marketing and...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, written by Alasdair McGregor and edited by Nicola Young (Lantern), has won the national Barbara Ramsden...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Entries for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced, with confirmation that two new categories--children's and YA--have been added to the awards.   Arts Minister Peter Garrett said...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
White, Hazzard make ‘Lost' Booker shortlistVivisector by Patrick White and The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard are among the titles shortlisted for the ‘Lost' Man Booker Prize, a one-off...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week: Q+A with Australian Booksellers Association conference speaker Richard Nash on ‘Publishing 3.0'; author interview with Maggie Joel on her new novel The...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Authors on tour in April and May include: April Nicole Alexander, Random House (The Bark Cutters) Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books, ('Dragonkeeper' and...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's first publication The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it. Boyd was a fierce critic of Australian...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Nominations close for the Nan Chauncy Award, 31 MarchEntries close for Australian Family Therapists' Award for...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
There’s a storm brewing in South Dakota and also on this weeks bestseller charts as Lee Child’s thriller 61 Hours (Bantam) blasts in to number one ahead of Stieg Larsson's...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Pan Macmillan Australia has added an ebooks page to its website, listing all the publisher's titles available in ebook format. 'We've had these titles available since 2007 but with no...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin yesterday, the shortlist for the 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards has been announced.‘With the nation's...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Thanks to Madman, we have a box of assorted DVDs and manga to give away to some lucky Weekly Book Newsletter subscribers. If you'd like to be in the running...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010
'I'm pretty convinced that it will work, it's just the time it will take everyone to either have the content ready on the publisher side or on the bookseller side...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced a new award to recognise excellence in New Zealand educational publishing. The award will be administered by PANZ and sponsored by...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Dyan Blacklock and Stuart Glover have been appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Blacklock is an author and publisher (at Omnibus Books) and a...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Education Minister Julia Gillard has asked the parliament's House Standing Committee on Education and Training to launch an inquiry into and to report on ‘the role, adequacy and resourcing of...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Among our reviewers' top picks of forthcomg titles reviewed in the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine are: The Second-last Woman in England (Maggie Joel, Pier 9); Sunday's Kitchen: Food and...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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