Tuesday, 10 January 2012
'Some independent shops have reported not a bad Christmas--after all, shoppers have to go somewhere'--Nielsen general manager Shaun Symonds on Christmas book sales without REDgroup Retail. How did your store...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Cleric calles for Rushdie to be banned from Jaipur festivalUS study finds children...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The first Media Extra of 2012 will be published this Monday, 16 January.If you would like to receive Media Extra to find out which titles are mentioned in the media each...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Walker Books has announced a partnership with the National Year of Reading 2012 (NYR2012) in the lead-up to the official launch of the initiative on 14 February. Walker Books managing...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey. If your store has not yet been surveyed, please complete the survey online here (booksellers). Alternatively, if you are a...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
In the lead up to the 2012 Olympics in London, a key member of the Games' organising committee is ruthlessly murdered. The London branch of renowned investigation agency Private is...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Dymocks' new publishing arm D Publishing, launched late last year, has announced a further update to its author contract. Michael Allara, Dymocks general manger, ecommerce, confirmed the company had posted...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts in December 2011, the first major review of the council since the mid-1980s. Minister...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Over three quarters of the books reviewed in Bookseller+Publisher magazine last year were released simultaneously as ebooks, while 56% of all adult books reviewed were written by female authors. Andrea...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Brian Cook, publishing consultant and proprietor of the Manuscript Appraisal Agency, is the new owner of the Authors' Agent literacy agency. Cook announced that he had acquired the business this...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
In rights news this week:SalesChildren's/YA--Fremantle Press has sold North American rights, including English language and bi-lingual editions, to Michael Thompson's picture book, The Other Bears, to Star Bright Books in...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Australian books have featured heavily in the wine and drinks categories of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Hardie Grant Australia has been named Best Wine Books Publisher of the...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
On Fancy Goods so far this year, Alex Adsett considers the third draft of the D Publishing contract, Heather Dyer interviews Gillian Mears on Foal’s Bread (A&U), Megan Hancock reviews...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize was announced on 10 January. The shortlisted titles are:The Wandering Falcon (Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Hamish Hamilton)Rebirth (Jahnavi Barua, India, Penguin)The Sly...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The head office of children's publisher Weldon Owen will be relocated from Australia to London over the next six months. Current Weldon Owen managing director Kay Scarlett told the Weekly...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Murdoch Books has announced a number of key staff changes and four redundancies, in a restructure designed to 'position Murdoch Books for the new year and to face the challenges...

Monday, 9 January 2012
The recipients of Asialink's 2012 residencies have been announced. The recipients of the Arts Management residencies related to writing, and the projects they will work on, are:Lisa Dempster, Indonesia: Dempster...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Christopher Hitchens, author, literary critic and journalist, has died aged 62. Hitchens authored 17 books, including God Is Not Great (2007), The Trial of Henry Kissinger, How Religion Poisons Everything, and...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Ronald Searle, renowned British cartoonist and creator of St. Trinians and Molesworth, has died aged 91. Searle spent over three years in a prisoner-of-war camp during WWII where he made...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Simms Taback, children's book author and illustrator best known for his version of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, has died...

Monday, 9 January 2012
David Bateman, founder of David Bateman Publishing in New Zealand in 1979, has died.  Bateman was a life member of PANZ, and was active on the Book Council and the...

Monday, 9 January 2012
JanuaryJames Duigan, Kyle Books (Clean and Lean Cookbook) Sydney.David Sedaris, Hachette (Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk) Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.Kirsten Tranter, Fourth Estate (A Common Loss) Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne...

Monday, 9 January 2012
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Monday, 9 January 2012
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Monday, 9 January 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Lockyear Arts Festival: 13-16 JanuaryMidsumma Festival: 15 January to 5 February Living Literature Festival, New York: 16-29...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Former digital publishing co-ordinator at Scribe Publications Tamsin Wagner has left the company. Wagner, who had worked at Scribe for close to eight years, finished in her position at the end...

Sunday, 8 January 2012
Amy Espeseth has won the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize for her manuscript Trouble Telling the Weather. Espeseth will receive a cash prize of $15,000 and a...