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Forthcoming events 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September Sisters in Crime, Melbourne: 22 September Marlborough Literature Festival, UK :...

Most mentioned: this week in Media Extra 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Novelist Richard Flanagan's collected short pieces of nonfiction called And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (Random House) received the same number of mentions as Peggy Frew's debut novel House...

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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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On tour 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Whitcoulls withdraws from BookScan panel 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls will no longer participate in the country's Nielsen BookScan panel. In a message sent to subscribers and retailers last week, Nielsen BookScan said that from...

Google Books case headed for litigation in 2012 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
US Judge Denny Chin has adopted a pre-trial schedule for the Google Books case which, if followed, will result in the case being ready for trial in mid-2012. In a status conference in...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
In rights news this week:SalesChildren's--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to the ‘Billie B Brown' series (Sally Rippin) and ‘The Phoenix Files' series (Chris Morphew); six further titles in...

Quote of the week 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
‘We have made great progress as an industry in the last couple of years in working together and developing the sort of information that we require in order to plan...

Readings opens pop-up discount store 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Melbourne bookseller Readings has opened a pop-up discount store in Lygon Court, Carlton. Readings Bargains is located opposite the former Borders Carlton store and across the road from the Readings Carlton store....

Around the world 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Among the many international news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'Amazon is nobody's friend'novelist leaves HarperCollins over 'sexist, degrading' covers US bookstore sales drop...

Inside the current issue: Reviewers’ top picks 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
In the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine we review 21 titles due for publication in November. You can read about the ones our reviewers particularly liked on our blog here....

Changes to Commonwealth Writers’ Prize announced 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP) and the Commonwealth Short Story Competition will be re-launched in October 2011, with a number of changes to be...

On Fancy Goods 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Kate O’Donnell reviews Nanberry: Black Brother White (Jackie French, Angus & Robertson), Andrew Wilkins reviews Interferon Psalms (Luke Davies, A&U) and Katie Horner reviews The...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Kathy Reichs' Flash and Bones (William Heinemann), the latest thriller in the 'Temperance Brennan' investigative series, is top of the bestsellers chart, followed by James Patterson's Kill Me If You Can...

BBWF looks for new director 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre (NRWC) has announced that it is looking for a new director for the 2012 Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF).Sarah Ma, information manager for the NRWC, told...

In Brief 

Monday, 19 September 2011
Dymocks wins online retail awardDymocks has won the Online Retail (Media & Entertainment) category at the 2011 Amber Awards, presented for excellence in online services in Australia and New Zealand....

2011 Blake Poetry Prize winner announced 

Sunday, 18 September 2011
'Via Negativa, The Divine Dark' by Robert Adamson has won this year's Blake Poetry Prize, presented by the NSW Writers' Centre and the Blake Society. Adamson's poem was one of...

Forthcoming events 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Indexing see Change: ANZSI Conference, Brighton, Vic: 12-14 September Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September'Open Your Eyes'...

Most mentioned: this week in Media Extra 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Anna Funder's Stasiland was a massive hit when it was released several years ago, so it's no surprise that her debut novel All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton) is generating huge...

Stay in touch with us 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Sign up for The Bookseller+Publisher Newsletter--delivered free to your inbox once a fortnight. You can also follow Bookseller+Publisher online on Twitter, become a Facebook fan or subscribe to our RSS feed.

Got news? 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
If you've got news you think would be of interest to Weekly Book Newsletter readers, let us know by emailing bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au

On tour 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

RiP Liz Riley 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
The Australian Booksellers Association writes: 'It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our friend and colleague, Liz Riley. 'Liz was a dedicated and...

More than 45,000 attend MWF 2011 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
More than 45,000 people attended the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival, held between 25 August and 4 September. Festival director Steve Grimwade told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival's organisers...

McPherson’s reports nine percent drop in revenue 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Book printer McPherson's Printing Group has recorded a nine percent drop in revenue and a 24% decline in pre-tax earnings in its printing division for the 2010-2011 financial year. Sales revenue for...

New digital publishing service launched 

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
A new digital publishing service designed for publishers and government and academic agencies has been launched, called Xmplar. The business, which launched at the beginning of September, is founded by...