Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Google announces new 'Google Editions' ebook store Barnes & Noble launches 'nook' ereader Friedman launches new ditial publishing company Claudio Magris...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Lonely Planet has announced it will host an ‘open hack day' at its Melbourne offices on the weekend of 7 and 8 November, offering 100 Australian developers ‘full, unfettered access...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Thorpe-Bowker has announced that Angela Meyer will be taking on the role of acting editor of Bookseller+Publisher magazine. Meyer, who has worked as editorial assistant on the publication for the...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
It's a girlish week at the top of the charts--Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is number one in the Bestsellers (overtaking The Lost Symbol by Dan...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--UWA Publishing has sold rights for The Seamstress (Geraldine Wooller) to Salento Books in Italy.Nonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Annual Family Therapy Conference--presenting the Annual Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature, 20-22 OctoberFlight of...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
If anyone's been wondering what local author Mandy Sayer has been up to, wonder no longer. She's been busy editing The Australian Long Story, which is now available in bookshops....

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author Stuart M Kaminsky has died, aged 75. He wrote more than 70 novels including Bullet for a Star.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author and reporter Nan Robertson who wrote The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times has died, aged 83.

Sunday, 18 October 2009
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book industry event, closed on Sunday 18 October. After five days packed with meetings, seminars and other events (and of course dinners,...

Saturday, 17 October 2009
Australian authors Shaun Tan and Marcus Zusak have been announced as winners at the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious awards for children's and YA books.The awards ceremony, held as part...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the winners of its annual ‘Book of the Year' Awards. The awards, which began in 2003, are intended to highlight books that can ‘assist children's...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
A shortlist of 17 print, audio and film works in the running for the 2009 NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. The shortlists include: Australian History Prize ($15,000)Travels in...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Booksellers New Zealand has announced it plans to launch a new weekly newsletter and website on Thursday 22 October. The newsletter, to be called The Read, will combine the organisation's...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The nominees for this year's Walkley Awards were announced on Wednesday night, 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Macmillan)To...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Penguin Group has announced changes to its global management structure that will see Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne taking on regional responsibility for Asia Pacific. Under the new structure, Coyne...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Lonely Planet appoints new head of US operations Douglas Adams a hit on iPhoneGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterates opposition to Google...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher: Stephanie Johnston tells us about Brazil’s FLIP literary festivalAndrew Wilkins reports from Tonga Unwin Trust fellow Amy Tipper shares some of her findings on Australia’s...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Collins Booksellers has announced the resignation of CEO Peter Lothian. Lothian, who held the position for almost three years, will finish on Thursday 22 October. He told WBN he would remain...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Striped World by Sydney poet Emma Jones (Faber) has won Best First Collection at Britain's Forward Prizes for Poetry. The £5000 pound (A$8935) prize, awarded in London on Wednesday...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has become a shareholder in the UK-based publisher Atlantic Books. A&U's involvement as a significant shareholder follows the decision of Atlantic Books' New York-based parent company...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The winners of New Zealand's Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Awards have been announced. One of the NZ$35,000 (A$28,300) awards went to Peter Wells MBE to write a book of biographical essays...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The titles shortlisted for this year's Inky Awards for YA literature have been announced. Shortlisted for the Golden Inky for an Australian author were Worldshaker (Richard Harland, A&U); Everything Beautiful...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak professional body for editors, held a successful National Editors Conference during October, on the banks of the River Torrens in Adelaide. The...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Borders this week announced its 100 Favourite Books of All Time, as voted for by customers. Subscribers to the Borders e-newsletter were asked to vote for their favourite book throughout...