Monday, 24 October 2011
OctoberBelinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart,...

Sunday, 23 October 2011
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Festival, to be held between 2 and 18 March 2012, was launched on 19 October. Among the international authors who will participate in next...

Sunday, 23 October 2011
Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has announced that Deena Shiff, group managing director of Telstra Applications and Ventures Group, will replace Sandra Yates AO, as chair of the festival. Yates announced in...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Penguin Australia has announced that it will stop producing new titles in the Aussie Bites and Aussie Chomps series after 2012. Penguin children's books publisher Jane Godwin told the Weekly...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Nelson Arts Festival, NZ: 7-24 Oct'The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers' - One Day Seminar,...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Eighty-five-year-old Autumn Laing is moved to write about her affair with Australian artist Patrick Donlon and the near-catastrophic effects their relationship had on those closest to them in Alex Miller's...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
OctoberBelinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne.John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart,...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Sales reps are one of the critical links between booksellers and publishers. In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Eloise Keating looks at how this sector of the industry is...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
‘All other things being equal, I can see a global ebook marketplace that some years from now is 90-95% controlled by Amazon, Apple, Kobo, and a local player in each...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Music distributor Fuse Group Australia has entered into the local book distribution market, taking on a number of international publishers. Fuse Group represents Taschen Books, Trolley Books and Adelita in...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape). Barnes, who was the bookies' favourite to win the award, was...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The National Year of Reading 2012 initiative has announced a shortlist of titles in each Australian state and territory that will be voted on in order to determine a national...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Overdrive, distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries, has announced it will soon launch 'WIN catalogs' in the US. The catalogue will feature longtail collections of ebook titles, over 90% of...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Sisters in Crime Australia celebrated its 20th anniversary at the 2011 SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers' Convention, held in Melbourne between 7 and 9 October. Sisters in Crime national co-convenor...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The love between schoolgirl Nora and fallen angel Patch has transcended the boundary between heaven and earth. After overcoming the secrets of Patch’s dark past and facing heart-wrenching tests along...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Marion Rankine reviews Autumn Laing (Alex Miller, A&U), Margaret Hamilton reviews Once There was a Boy...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pan Mac team with Curtis Brown for digital backlistePub3 format finalisedWylie: 50% digital royalty...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Andrew Wilkins reports:As the stands were being dismantled in Hall 8 last Sunday afternoon and German shoppers starting to swarm in search of last-minute bargains, Australians at the Frankfurt Book...

Monday, 17 October 2011
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize winners announcedCarrie Tiffany and Gregory Day are the joint winners of the 2011 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Tiffany was...