Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Central Book Services (CBS) has announced the launch of its new ebook reader, the ECO Reader. A rebranded version of the Chinese made Hanlin ereader, the ECO Reader features a...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Era Publications has been awarded a 2009 Family Business of the Year Award, South Australia, first generation division. Rodney and Sandra Martin established Era in 1971 and have taken their...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Educational publisher John Wiley & Sons has announced several redundancies in its Melbourne office, as part of a structural change that also affects operations in the United Kingdom. ‘This week,...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Fullers Bookshop is moving location in order to double the business' space and have the store on one level.Fullers has been in its current location at 140 Collins Street, Hobart,...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Three pieces of writing on Indigenous subjects are among the shortlist of five chosen yesterday for the first John Button Prize for writing on politics and public policy. The shortlist...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
In rights news this week: FictionOrbit will be publishing three urban fantasy novels by Brisbane author Trent Jamieson: Death Most Definite will be released in August 2010, followed by Managing Death in...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
In the September issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine a record 22 adult titles received four stars or more in our reviews section, and 19 received four stars or more in the...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The category winners for the second annual Indie Book Award, chosen by Australia's independent booksellers, have been announced. The winners in the categories of fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction and children's,...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Former Australian police detective sergeant-turned-crime writer Tim Priest is in the spotlight again. His book Enemies of the State has hit number one in the Highest New Entries chart this...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Edinburgh International Book Festival, 15-31 AugustAustralian Copyright Council--2009 training program, Brisbane, 18-21 AugustOnline Retailer Exhibition...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
A book that is sure to appeal to sport fans topped the MX chart this week. Max Davidson's Winning Isn't Everything honours sports figures who behave with grace, modesty and...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
New Zealand poet, novelist and playwright Alistair Te Ariki Campbell has died, aged 84.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Authors on tour from August to November: AugustGareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right About Climate Change?)Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Eric Garcia, Scribe (The Repossession...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The Latin American Bookshop on Victoria Street, North Melbourne, has closed. The store was owned by international publisher Ocean Press. The Press told WBN: ‘Our Victoria Street bookshop was always...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The winners of the Romantic Book of the Year Award (R*BY), administered by Romance Writers of Australia (RWA), have been announced. The R*BY is awarded to the best romance book...

Sunday, 16 August 2009
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Random House rights sales manager Nerrilee Weir has joined the Visiting International Publisher (VIP) committee. ‘Nerrilee's experience and knowledge of international...

Sunday, 16 August 2009
Corrie Perkin, arts writer for the Australian, has announced she will open a bookshop in Melbourne in October. My Bookshop by Corrie Perkin, will open in Malvern Road in Victoria's...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Oxford University Press has reported a rise in turnover to £578.7million (A$1156.8 million) for the year ended 31 March 2009 from £492.3 million (A$984.1 million) for the previous year. The...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
HarperCollins announces new sci-fi short story competitionHarperCollins has announced a new science-fiction short story competition that will use its social network for unpublished authors, authonomy.com. Entrants will compete for the...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
In rights news this week: FictionText has acquired rights to the long-awaited new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi). The as-yet-untitled novel will be released in...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
This year's Dymocks annual national conference, held at the Radisson Resort Hotel on the Gold Coast from Sunday 9 August to Tuesday 11 August, was a ‘very upbeat' one, according...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Bloomsbury in the US has announced that its edition of Australian author Justine Larbalestier's new novel Liar (A&U), which has a black girl as its protagonist, will be re-jacketed in...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Gaiman heads Hugo winnersReading makes Americans optimisticUK booksellers hit out at OxfamNew Sony Reader is...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The winners of the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa: Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa) Children's Book Awards were announced in Wellington on Monday 10 August. The...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The film tie-in to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult has cut a swathe though the Stephenie Meyer titles this week in the Bestseller charts, sitting pretty at number three....