Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Trade events coming up over th next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24 February to 18 March Somerset Celebration of Literature:...

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
The longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$44,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a...

Monday, 12 March 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has been selected by independent booksellers as their favourite Australian book from the past 12 months.Funder's novel won the Indie Book of...

Monday, 12 March 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, presented 'for a work of outstanding literary merit published in 2011', has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:People of Earth (Christopher Edwards,...

Wednesday, 7 March 2012
The shortlist for this year's Barbara Jefferis Award was announced on 8 March. The shortlisted titles are:Too Close to Home (Georgia Blain, Vintage)When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett, A&U)All That I...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and RR Bowker (parent company of Weekly Book Newsletter owner Thorpe-Bowker) have announced that Copia Interactive will be the supplier providing ebook distribution to users of...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Alain de Botton argues that the secular world can learn a range of lessons from religion in his book  Religion for Atheists (Penguin). The book is at the top of the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The Tasmania-based Book City chain (not connected to the Book City chain owned by Collins Booksellers), has been placed into liquidation. Paul Cook and Johnathan Murrell, of Paul Cook &...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
McGraw-Hill Education's business in Australia and New Zealand is 'benefiting from the rapid growth in digital products and sales that is transforming education', despite 'challenging economic conditions in 2011', according...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Paul Haines, a speculative fiction writer whose works include Slice Of Life (2009) and The Last Days of Kali Yuga (2011), has died aged 41. Haines won the New Zealand Sir...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Blue tarpaulin shades have replaced the (famously hot) white tents at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week. It's one of new director Laura Kroetsch's biggest changes to the now-annual event, which...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
'Years ago I was quoted as saying that I loved our business because it was like going to the casino every day, such was the pace of change and the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Barnes & Noble holds on to publishing business after low offers from buyersApple adds...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Peter Field, global CEO of Dorling Kindersley (DK) Publishing and chairman of Penguin Australia and New Zealand, will retire from Penguin at the end of this year. Penguin Group said...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Australian guests were among the 128 publishers to attend the Publishing for the Future conference, held by the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) from 1 to 2 March in...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Barney Rosset, the founder of US publisher Grove Press, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Evergreen Review, has died aged 89. Rosset was well known as a champion of...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Canberra bookseller Meredith Wright has confirmed her new position managing the National Library of Australia (NLA) bookshop, following the closure of her bookstore Daltons Books in late August 2011. Wright told...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Brendan O'Connor has been appointed as the new Federal Minister for Small Business. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the appointment on Friday 2 March as part of a wider ministry...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, Meg Whelan reviews The Reluctant Hallelujah (Gabrielle Williams, Penguin), Max Oliver reviews Sicily, It’s Not Quite Tuscany (Shamus Sillar, Arena), Chris Harrington reviews Fishing the River...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
MarchRosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley and Kaisa Breeden, Fremantle Press (Rainforest Country) Brisbane, Cairns...

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) and the Carnegie Corporation have announced two new awards for adult books. The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be...