Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The Tree, a film based on Judy Pascoe's Australian novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree, is the story of an Australian family dealing with the unexpected death of...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand have announced that they will reprint a new edition of Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom (Fourth Estate) following the identification of errors within the text last...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts is considering an overhaul of the way funding is allocated to local publishers. Director of the Literature Board Susan Hayes...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Hardie Grant Books has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it will be recalling former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser's new book Snouts in the Trough in Victoria. The book...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Penguin Australia has announced that is voluntarily recalling all copies of the books My First Animals: Let's Squeak and Squawk and My First Numbers: Let's Get Counting. The books, which...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has announced it will join forces with ABC Commercial to produce a new range of Australian audiobook titles. The partnership, announced last Friday, will see the reproduction...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Toni Whitmont reviews Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (Picador), Chris Harrington reviews Ramona Koval's Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers (Scribe) and our...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The University of Adelaide's Faculty of Sciences has announced that it will provide all first year students in 2011 with a free iPad in a move to replace traditional study...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Melbourne University Bookshop has recently launched a new online discount bookstore. Bookshop Bargains was launched last month and offers shoppers heavily discounted fiction, nonfiction and academic books, with some titles...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Nielsen BookScan launches in IndiaNielsen Book has announced the launch of BookScan India. The Indian panel will release its first week's charts on Friday 15 October, having begun collecting data...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Frankfurt Book Fair launches fair app Rowling tells Oprah she won't rule out another...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
'Publishing is no longer a growth business: what we are contending with is the fact that not as many of us are needed as used to be. Publishing can get...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair gets underway today and runs through until Sunday 10 October. With close to 300,000 visitors expected and over 7500 exhibitors from 111 countries, Frankfurt remains...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The shortlisted titles for this year's Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award and Judith Wright Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the ACT Book of the Year...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Topping the fastest movers chart this week is Akermanis: Open Season (Jason Akermanis & Guy Smart, Hardie Grant), the memoir and behind-the-scenes story of ex-AFL player Jason Akermanis.  At Home...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Creative New Zealand has announced that it will support a new Translation Grant Scheme to encourage the translation of New Zealand literature into foreign languages. The scheme, which will be...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's--On behalf of Little Hare Books, Australian Licensing Corporation (ALC) has sold rights to Chill (Carol Thompson) in the US, Germany and Korea; Daddy Kiss...

Monday, 4 October 2010
Who is left behind when a family falls apart? Caroline Overington explores this question in her latest book I Came to Say Goodbye (Bantam), which topped the most mentioned chart...

Monday, 4 October 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: UBUD Writers and Readers Festival: 6-10 October Frankfurt Book Fair: 6-10 OctoberWaiheke Book Festival: 8-10...

Monday, 4 October 2010
OctoberIan Britain, Text (Donald Friend Diaries)Brendan Cowell, Pan Macmillan (How It Feels)Michael Chugg, Pan Macmillan (Hey, You in the Black Shirt)Sally Dingo, Hachette (Unsung Ordinary Men)Tim Flannery, Text (Here on...

Monday, 4 October 2010
Pat Cody, co-founder of the iconic 'Cody's Books', has died aged 87.  Cody wrote two books: the memoir Cody's Books: The Life and Times of a Berkeley Bookstore (Chronicle Books) and...

Monday, 4 October 2010
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Monday, 4 October 2010
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