Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Detective Alex Cross is on the scene of his biggest case. The President's son and daughter have been kidnapped from their school and a deadly contagion in the water supply...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Gribble founded the publishing house McPhee Gribble with Hilary McPhee in 1975. McPhee Gribble later became an imprint of Penguin. With Eric...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Canadian universities opt out of copyright collection societyPrinceton goes Open AccessAmazon welcomes back 10,000...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Monday, 3 October 2011
Attendance figures at this year's Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in regional Western Australia were double those recorded at last year's festival. Approximately 1400 people attended the event, held...

Monday, 3 October 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that each member of the PANZ Council has been given responsibility for their own industry portfolios. The PANZ Council and their...

Monday, 3 October 2011
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne.John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne,...

Monday, 3 October 2011
At the top of the most mentioned chart is Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper (Vintage), a story that combines the civil rights struggle in the United States with the Nazi...

Monday, 3 October 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Fiji Literary Festival 2011: 2-9 OctoberAustralian School Library Association National Conference: 2-5 OctoberThe 5th World...

Monday, 3 October 2011
The owners of Pademelon Press have announced that they are selling the business. Pademelon Press, which specialises in early childhood teacher resources and reference books, was established in 1990 by...

Sunday, 2 October 2011
The winners of the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards were announced on Friday 30 September. Miles Franklin-winner Kim Scott was awarded the $25,000 Premier's Prize, which is presented to...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The State Library of New South Wales has announced that the prize money for the National Biography Award will increase from $20,000 to $25,000 in 2012. Entries for the 2012...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Scott Whitmont reviews Empire Day (Diane Armstrong, Fourth Estate), Amelia Vahtrick reviews Shift (Em Bailey, Hardie Grant Egmont) and Kimberley Allsopp reviews Bite Your Tongue...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
A new independent Australian publisher, with a focus on speculative fiction and ebooks, has been launched.   Hague Publishing, which will officially begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts in November 2011, has...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Hachette Australia has announced that 'a number of redundancies have occurred' as a result of a restructure of its sales force. The restructure follows a review of the company's field...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold Turkish rights to ‘The Phoenix Files' series (Chris Morphew); Canadian rights to Shockwave and Blockbuster, from the ‘Zac Power' series;...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
'We compile it, print it on our duplicating machine, and post it, all from the office ... by editing it myself and having one girl type it, print it and...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Anita Heiss has won the 2011 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her novel Paris Dreaming (Bantam), announced on 27 September at a special event at the Sydney...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, has announced that it has taken a lease on a property in Redfern for...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Some Australian bookshops will receive donations from locals undertaking the UK-founded ‘Sober October' campaign next month.Initiated by Kirsten Harrison and Stef Posavec, Sober October asks participants to abstain from alcohol...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Emerging Writers Festival has been successful in its campaign to crowd-fund a special conference in Brisbane in October. The conference, to take place on 15 and 16 October, will...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else (Gecko Press) has been selected by the New Zealand section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) as its 2012 Honour...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Espresso Book Machine meets Google BooksBook Net Canada to begin tracking ebook salesPynchon in...

Monday, 26 September 2011
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) is a story told from the perspective of two African-American maids, Aibileen and Minny, who look after a white family in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, and a...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Online Retailer Conference & E-commerce Expo: 26 - 29 September Australian School Library Association Nationall Conference:...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Diane Armstrong's Empire Day (Fourth Estate) is set in Sydney's Bondi Junction in the late 1940s. It is a microcosm of changing Australia, and life is changing too fast for...