Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Verna Coleman, librarian and biographer, has died aged 86. Coleman's biographies include Miles Franklin in America: Her Unkown (Brilliant) Career (1981); The Last Exquisite, about poet and novelist Fredric Manning;...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Sydney-based independent bookseller Pages & Pages has become the first retailer to start selling ebooks using the ReadCloud platform, following the launch of its ebookstore on 9 November. Pages &...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Thorpe-Bowker, publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter, has announced that Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will be leaving the company at the end of 2011. Thorpe-Bowker has also announced that design and...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has been nominated for the UK Literary Review's Bad S-x in Fiction Award for the second year running. Tsiolkas' novel Dead Europe, which was first published in...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Andrew Rankin reviews Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific (Tim Flannery, Text); Portia Lindsay reviews Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate);...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Random House has sold Sandakan (Paul Ham) to the United Kingdom; and Hot Relationships (Tracey Cox) to Romania.Children's/YA--Random House has sold the ‘Ranger's Apprentice' series...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
‘We consciously decided to do something about how few [film and television] projects were being generated around our books and made it our business to get to know the film...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
In his Unwin Trust Fellowship report Mark Richards compared the place of agents in the Australian and UK literary communities and found a perception, on the part of many local...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
The shortlist for this year's Human Rights Literature Award, presented to a work of nonfiction by the Australian Human Rights Commission and sponsored by The Co-op Bookshop, has been announced....

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Magabala Books has announced a partnership with the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) to publish the winners of the kuril dhagun Indigenous writing fellowships. Under the partnership, the winners of the...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Penguin US pulls ebooks from OverDrivePenguin US launches self-publisher servicesSkoob ebookstore launched in SingaporeUS...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests for next year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers Week in March 2012. International guests confirmed...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
In Inheritance (Doubleday), the conclusion to Christopher Paolini's Inheritance cycle, the fate of an entire civilization rests on the shoulders of rider Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, who must defeat the...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Galley Cat reports that Molly Barton will replace Dan Ruffino as Penguin's Global Digital Director. Ruffino, who was appointed to the New York-based position in 2010, was previously at Penguin...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Fantasy novelist Anne McCaffrey, author of Restoree (1967) and the 'Dragonriders of Pern' series, has died aged 85. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award, and also the first...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Random House Australia has ‘a number of new digital publishing projects underway including the release and development of Story-cuts', according to marketing and publicity director and head of digital Brett...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Delia Falconer has won this year's Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Waverley Library Award for Literature for her book Sydney (NewSouth). Falconer was presented with the $20,000 award, known as ‘the...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Kylie Sutcliffe is the recipient of the inaugural Andrew Mason Prize for Most Promising Editor. The annual prize is offered by the Mason Publishing Trust to a graduate of the...

Monday, 21 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 Whitley Awards, presented by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, have been announced. The Whitley Medal has been presented to Australian Land Snails...

Monday, 21 November 2011
Australian poet John Kinsella has been shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. Kinsella's Armour (Picador) is one of 10 collections shortlisted for the £15,000 (approximately A$23,700)...

Monday, 21 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Auckland on 17 November. The winning and highly commended titles in each of the...

Monday, 21 November 2011
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that publisher James Fraser will retire from the company at the end of this year. Fraser spent 25 years in the role of publishing director...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Barbara Grier, co-founder of Naiad Press, has died aged 78. Naiad Press (sold to Bella Books in 2003) was once the world's largest publishing house dedicated to gay and lesbian...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Peter Roebuck, ABC cricket commentator, newspaper columnist and author, has died in South Africa, aged 55.Patrick Gallagher, Allen & Unwin chairman and publisher of three of Roebuck's books, writes:‘It was...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The New South Wales government has announced that it has appointed a panel to review the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards. Arts NSW said in...