Thursday, 8 November 2012
Simon & Schuster Australia is celebrating its 25th anniversary next Tuesday with an ‘intimate party’ in Sydney as well as a visit from S&S UK chief executive and managing director...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Random House Australia has announced that it will be using the NetGalley platform ‘as a way of providing electronic advanced reading copies’. The publisher’s sister companies in the US and...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has announced the shortlist for the Walkley Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: Mine-Field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush (Paul Cleary, Black Inc.)...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Approximately 135 writers, editors and agents attended the inaugural GenreCon in Sydney over the weekend. The conference for Australian genre writers, run by the Queensland Writers Centre, was held at...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Reader’s Feast bookshop in Melbourne has announced the program for its annual Crime and Justice Festival. This year’s festival will run from 16 to 18 November, with events taking place at...

Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Jamie Oliver’s latest time-saving cookbook, Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Michael Joseph) has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart and sits in second place on the fastest movers chart this...

Monday, 5 November 2012
Robyn Ewing of Sydney University has been named the recipient of this year’s Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children’s Literature. The award, which is sponsored by Peribo and...

Monday, 5 November 2012
The organisers of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference, being held in Melbourne on 8 and 9 November, have announced that Peter Donoughue will replace Thomas Minkus as keynote speaker. US-based...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Books in Print, TitlePage and several other data services hosted by Bowker in the US (the parent company of Thorpe-Bowker in Australia) have been disrupted by Hurricane Sandy, which has...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
‘I tried for four years to get more money for publishers. At times it was like banging your head against a wall’—Susan Hayes reflects on her time as director of...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Susan Hayes will retire from her position as director of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in December. Hayes told Bookseller+Publisher that her last day at...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The New York Police Department is on high alert as Hollywood stars and executives arrive in New York for a film festival. A world-famous producer is killed at breakfast and by the...

Monday, 29 October 2012
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria next Tuesday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 8 November.  The deadline for classifieds and...

Monday, 29 October 2012
Australian authors Michelle De Kretser, Benjamin Law and Kirsty Murray have joined Indian poet Sudeep Sen, novelist and critic Chandrahas Choudhury and journalist and fiction writer Annie Zaidi on Asialink’s...

Monday, 29 October 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold rights to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to La Campana in Catalan; Skolska Knjiga in Croatia; Otava in Finland; Libri in Hungary; Achuzat Bayit in Israel; Sijthoff...

Monday, 29 October 2012
John Griffin, New Zealand bookseller, publisher and founder of The University Bookshop in Otago, has died aged 88.