Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Frankfurt to see 'largest LitAg ever'RiP Harvey PekarJames Patterson sells over 1 million...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has announced the creation of a new award for an academic manuscript by an Indigenous writer. The award, named after...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Jane Higgins has won the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, for her 'apocalyptic action novel' The Bridge. Higgins' novel will be published by Text in August...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Australian author Hsu-Ming Teo, who was born in Malaysia before migrating to Australia in 1977 aged seven, has been named as one of the judges for the 2010 Man Asian...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
After more than 17 years as the executive producer of the Adelaide Writers' Week, Rose Wight has resigned suddenly, in protest at ‘insulting and unacceptable' terms in her new contract.In...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
A new website at www.love2read.org.au is now live in the lead-up to the National Year of Reading 2012. The National Year of Reading is an initiative of 11 library-related organisations...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Allen & Unwin sales director Chris Burgess will leave the company on 29 July to take up the position of general manager at ReadHowYouWant (RHYW).Burgess will take up the newly...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Can it be that time of year already? Well, not quite, but Father's Day isn't far away. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine editor Andrea Hanke rounds up the...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Hachette Australia writes:'Hachette Australia is saddened by the death of John Mckone last Thursday. 'John brought his retirement forward earlier this year owing to ill health. In typical John style, he made light of...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
The titles shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are:Primary schoolPrimary educational website:www.myplace.edu.au (Deb Cohen and team, Education Services...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: Matthia Dempsey on Nicholas Carr's forthcoming look at 'how the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember', The Shallows (Atlantic,...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
In rights news this week Jenny Darling & Associates reports ‘a Danish translation sale for Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text), to Klim Forlaget' and has also sold Swedish rights...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
CAL Scribe Fiction Prize prizemoney increases to $15,000The prize money for the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize will increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in 2011. The prize, for the best unpulished...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Ransom (David Malouf, Knopf) has been named the winner of this year's ALS Gold Medal. Ransom beat The Darwin Poems (Emily Ballou, UWA Publishing); The Lost Life (Steven Carroll, Fourth...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
The management team of membership-based retailer Doubleday Australia has purchased the company from its former owners Bertelsmann under the entity A&WN Trust. Doubleday Australia managing director Andrew Nikas will continue...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
'It is impossible to compete with an organisation that is prepared to lose money'--Hachette Australia managing director Malcolm Edwards, referring to online bookseller The Book Depository during the Australian Booksellers...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Justin Cronin's novel The Passage was among the five titles that tied for top spot in our most mentioned chart this week (also up there were Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
JulyAyaan 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 (The Red Wind)Duncan Lay, HarperCollins...

Monday, 12 July 2010
UK-based independent publisher Quercus has announced that it is moving its Australian and New Zealand distribution from Murdoch Books to Pan Macmillan, commencing 1 January 2011.Quercus' sales will be handled...

Monday, 12 July 2010
Award-winning Queensland-born author Jessica Anderson has died, aged 93. Anderson won the 1978 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Tirra Lirra By the River and the 1980 Miles Franklin...

Friday, 9 July 2010
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its premier design award for the best book has been renamed the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book, sponsored by...