Thursday, 27 January 2011
SLQ, QWC remain closed The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) and the offices of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) remain closed this week, following the evacuation of the Stanley Street...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Well at the World's End (AJ Mackinnon). Random House has sold rights to Batavia (Peter Fitzsimons)...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced that John Hunter has been appointed to the position of publisher for the next 12 months. Hunter will act in the role while...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
'When I began HEAT I thought that the community of readers to which it appealed would also ensure its financial success. The community would grow in time, sales of the...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we revisit some of the books shortlisted for this year's Indie Award, with new review posts of Rocks in the Belly (Jon Bauer,...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced its 2010 fundraising results.The Project, which aims to improve literacy rates in remote Indigenous communities in partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation and...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
ABC Books, which is published by HarperCollins, launched its ebook program this week with 27 titles from a range of authors including Sally Wise, Steve Cannane, Craig Lowndes, Claire Hooper,...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:ebooks and territorial rights debated at DBWDRM removal instructions go mainstreamhalf of US publishers...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Gleebooks owner and chair of the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) David Gaunt was among those recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours.Gaunt received the Member (AM) in the General Division...

Tuesday, 25 January 2011
The first recipients of funding from Creative New Zealand's Translation Grant Scheme have been announced. Norwegian publishing house Cappelen Damm will receive funds to translate Joy Cowley's children's book Friends:...

Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Secrets to the Grave (Tami Hoag, Hachette), the second book in the ‘Deeper than the Dead' crime fiction series, tops the highest new entries chart followed by forensic thriller You Belong...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January - 6 February Galle Literary Festival,...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Jenny Macmillan has finished in her role as publicity manager for Hardie Grant Books. A spokesperson for Hardie Grant told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Macmillan resigned from the company...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago in Kim Edwards' novel The Lake of...

Monday, 24 January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
January Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required) Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast.Immodesty Blaize, Random House (Ambition) Sydney and Melbourne.Alison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky) South Coast NSW and...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Ice Water Press has announced that Janet Rowe will join the company in the role of publisher at the end of the month. Rowe, who is currently publisher at The...

Monday, 24 January 2011
British photojournalist and Walkley award winner, Penny Tweedie, has died aged 70. Tweedie produced the 1998 book, Spirit of Arnhem Land, in which she captured the lives of Aboriginal Australians...

Monday, 24 January 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's Indie Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction:Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe)Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe)When Colts Ran (Roger McDonald, Random...

Monday, 24 January 2011
WAYRBA reading lists released  The reading lists for this year's West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) have been released. The lists for the younger readers, older readers and picture...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings launched an ebookstore this week, becoming the first independent bookseller in the country to offer locally published ebooks. The Readings ebookstore utilises the 'in the cloud'...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
NewSouth Books announced last week that a selected number of NewSouth Publishing titles are now available through the Apple iBookstore. Director of NewSouth Books Nella Soeterboek told the Weekly Book...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
The guest list and daily program for this year's Writers at the Convent event have been released. The 2011 event, which will be held at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne...