Wednesday, 27 July 2011
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--Scribe has sold French rights to Bereft (Chris Womersley) to Éditions Albin Michel.Children's/YA--Scholastic Australia has sold Chinese translation rights to several books illustrated by Kate Greenaway medalist...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Monday 25 July at a ceremony in Melbourne.Hosted by comedian Alan Brough, the awards celebrate the best Australian books, authors,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:New Voices Festival, Eltham, Vic: 30 - 31 July Authoring the Author: 4 August Byron Bay...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Collins Booksellers has announced that it has reached an agreement with Kobo which will involve the bookseller building an ebookstore powered by Kobo, as well as selling Kobo ereaders in...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
ReadHowYouWant to launch UK titlesCustomised printing company ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has announced that it will soon be producing titles from a number of UK publishers, as a result of a new...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
As announced by Pan Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a statement regarding an update of...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Bella Vendramini, author of Biting the Big Apple, is back with a new tale of her adventures called Naked in Public: A True Story of Surviving Mr Right Through Love,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
AugustRobert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne.Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers, MUP (Armageddon) Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.Aleesah...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The Five Miles Press has announced that it will commence Australian trade sales and distribution from 1 August. The publisher, whose trade titles were previously sold and distributed by Scribo,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Collins Booksellers has announced that buying manager Jenny McNear is retiring from the book industry. McNear began her bookselling career in 1991 with Book City before moving to Collins in...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Books at MIFF (BaM) was held at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 21 July as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and run by 37º South Market.The...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The 2011 Galley Club Awards for excellence in book and magazine production were announced by the Galley Club of Sydney on 22 July.The winner of the Book of the Year...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions served David Hicks with a notice of application for an order to restrain funds from the sale of Hicks's memoirs Guantanamo: My Journey (William...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Hannah McGlade, a human rights lawyer and social justice activist has won the 2011 Stanner Award. McGlade won the award, which is sponsored by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
A new report from Price Waterhouse Coopers and Frost and Sullivan suggests that 95% of consumers search the web for product information before making a purchase online and over 65%...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The titles longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape)On Canaan's Side (Sebastian Barry, Faber)Jamrach's Menagerie (Carol Birch,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Bulwer-Lytton award for bad writingBooks-a-Million abandons Borders US bid Amazon set to open in...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
In a session on the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday afternoon, program manager Debra Dank told the audience that in 2009-2010 the foundation...