Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
iPad launches in NZ; 'Hairy Mclary' app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23 July, Penguin Books New Zealand's...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Award-winning Australian author Jon Stephen Cleary, best known for writing The Sundowners, has died aged 92. HarperCollins writes:'HarperCollins is sad to report that author Jon Cleary—an Australian icon and a...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Australian authors Christos Tsiolkas and Peter Carey are on the longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The longlist of 13 titles, announced overnight in the UK, includes Tsiolkas' The...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The longlist for this year's £30,000 (A$52,000) University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Among the titles shortlisted for the biennial prize for ‘the best published or produced...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The shortlist for the $20,000 2010 John Button Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay35: Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia (Noel Pearson, Black Inc.)The Politics...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Random House Australia, as part of a worldwide Random House policy, ‘will not be entering into any new English-language business agreements with the [US] Wylie Agency', following the agency's deal...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Dymocks Hamilton, which opened in New Zealand in 2007, has closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter it was ‘disappointing that the Dymocks Hamilton store is closing...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
There are thousands of book apps on offer in Apple's App Store. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher, editor Andrea Hanke spoke to some Australian publishers who have gotten in...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Lonely Planet has announced a new distributor for its products in New Zealand. From 5 September 2010 Craig Potton Publishing will be the publisher's exclusive distributor in New Zealand, taking...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US Authors Guild on Wylie: 'publishers have brought this upon themselves''Remarkable' Penguin strengthens Pearson...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
JulyDeborah Abela, Random House (Grimsdon) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Joe Bennett, S&S (Hello Dubai)Isobelle Carmody, Penguin...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Historian, author and University of Queensland librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt has been awarded the 2010 State Library of Queensland John Oxley Fellowship, worth $20,000. The fellowship will assist his research...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
A J Mackinnon secured two places in our most mentioned chart this week for The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow (Black Inc.) and, most notably, his new title The...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The winners of this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards were announced in Auckland on 22 July. The winners were: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book, sponsored...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold North American rights to Stéphane Reynaud's Rôtis.Children's--Scholastic has licensed the Taiwanese rights to Shrieking Violet (Emma Quay) and Chinese rights to...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:ABA Training—Perth: 28 JulyNational Poetry Day NZ: 30 JulyTasmania Book Prizes nominations open: 1 AugustAustralian Educational...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The program for this year's Brisbane Writers Festival, which runs from 1 to 5 September, has been announced. E C Osondu, the 2009 winner of The Caine Prize for African...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Hawke: The Prime Minister (Blanche D'Alpuget, MUP) is number one on the highest new entries chart, after a flurry of media attenion as reported by Media Extra last week. The...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010
‘Are we comfortable with it? No. At the same time, we need to keep it in perspective [...] I'm concerned about the principles involved here but I don't believe it...

Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Following the resignation of long-time festival director Rose Wight, Adelaide Writers' Week will be ‘conducting an international search' for a replacement, according to festival chief executive Kate Gould. Gould told...

Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Melbourne-based electronic goods company Kogan Technologies has announced it will sell its branded ereader for $189. Kogan communications manager Vuki Vujasinovic told the Weekly Book Newsletter the company had been...