Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Adelaide Writers' Week: 3-8 March2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24 Feb - 18 March...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The lives of two very different women intersect in Candice Bruce's The Longing (Vintage), when Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria in the 1840s from her Scottish homeland and her Aboriginal servant looses...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Are men better writers than women? To answer this question and to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on 8 March, the Stella Prize and independent booksellers across the country will be...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The recent acquisition of Inscape Holdings by John Wiley & Sons represents an 'opportunity to build further' in the English-language training market in Australia, according to a spokesperson for the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The Five Mile Press will look to sell approximately 100 titles a year into India through parent company Bonnier's expansion into India, according to managing director Alexandra Maramenides. Bonnier Publishing...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that it will take over representation of UK publisher Canongate in the Australian and New Zealand markets from April. The publisher said in a statement...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The Co-op Bookshop has launched an outdoor 'window shop' at its Macquarie University campus which allows customers to scan pictures of textbooks with their smartphones and then purchase the books...

Monday, 5 March 2012
Australian subscription television channel Studio will screen a new program dedicated to literature and writing from April. For the Love of Books is a 10-part series, which will screen for...

Monday, 5 March 2012
Penguin New Zealand is recalling all copies of Sally Cameron's The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden due to plagiarism allegations. The book, originally published in September 2008 and then later revised in September...

Monday, 5 March 2012
Facebook business page users have been notified of significant changes to their brand pages that are set to take place on March 31. The biggest update added to these pages...

Sunday, 4 March 2012
The winners of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced in Adelaide on Saturday 3 March. The Premier's Award, worth $10,000, was awarded to That Deadman Dance by...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed concerns about recent changes at Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), which mean that there is no longer a dedicated author manager position at...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) and the Centre for Youth Literature (CYL) celebrated significant birthdays this month. HGE celebrated its 10th birthday with a ‘Summer Party' on Thursday 23 February. HGE...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, we meet author on tour Jo Nesbø (language warning), Bookseller+Publisher intern Sanna Nyblad looks at adaptations at the 84th Acadamy Awards 2012 and Paul Landymore...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
S J Finch writes: This year's Perth Writers Festival was a phenomenal success, attracting an estimated crowd of around 30, 000 people, Danielle Benda told the Weekly Book Newsletter. 'There...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Australian writers and publishers are heading to China for the fifth annual Australian Writers' Week (AWW) during 12-19 March, presented by the Australian Embassy Beijing. The line-up of authors includes Tim Flannery,...