Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Faber has announced a partnership with US distributor Perseus that will offer digital distribution services to publishers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. ‘Faber Factory Powered...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
'As the Site Merchandiser for Google eBooks Australia, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to build and maintain the merchandising program across all of our Australian retail...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
While Amazon extends its global reach with its acquisition of the Book Depository, for several home-grown online booksellers, it's the local touch that's proving a winner, reports Eloise Keating in...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:2000 UK bookshops have closed in the past six yearsprofits surge at Random Housenew...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced that it will offer 20 new writers' fellowships in 2012. In her last public duty as director of...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Dymocks will launch a web-based publishing arm in October.To be called D Publishing, the business will allow users to upload draft manuscripts online 'and proceed to produce and publish their...

Monday, 5 September 2011
The 10pm Question by New Zealand author Kate De Goldi (A&U / Random House NZ) has won the Young Reader's Award in the 2011 Corine International Book Awards. The Corine...

Monday, 5 September 2011
WA heARTlines festival underwayThe 2011 heARTlines festival for children's literature and illustration in Mundaring, Western Australia, was officially launched on Friday 2 September. The biennial festival, which will run until...

Monday, 5 September 2011
The winners of this year's New South Wales Premier's History Awards were announced at an event in Sydney on 5 September. The Australian History Prize ($15,000) was awarded to Savage or...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'New Horizons for Editing and Publishing', Australia's National Editors biennial conference: 7-9 SeptemberIndigenous Literacy Day: 7...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Kate Grenville's new novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) is continuing to generate interest, with her book again at the top of the most mentioned chart. Joining Grenville as a guest of the...

Monday, 5 September 2011
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Monday, 5 September 2011
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Monday, 5 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...

Sunday, 4 September 2011
In rights news this week:SalesNonfiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold A Cook's Guide (Donna Hay) to Germany.Children's/YA--HarperCollins Publishers has sold and You Are A Star (Michael Parker & Judith Rossell) to North...

Sunday, 4 September 2011
The winners for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers' Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are New Zealand's richest for nonfiction....

Sunday, 4 September 2011
The winners of this year's cultural awards from the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Miles...

Thursday, 1 September 2011
The winners of this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 31 August. The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGreachin (Viking) won the best...

Wednesday, 31 August 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Fiona Stager reviews Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text), David Gaunt reviews All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton) and Andrew Wrathall reviews Midnight in...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
It wasn't just the stories about the Melbourne Writers Festival that placed Kate Grenville's novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) at the top of our most mentioned chart. While Grenville is certainly...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Tuesday, 30 August 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...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Melbourne Writers Festival: 26 Aug - 4 Sept SeptemberBallarat Writers and Illustrators Festival: 2-3 SeptemberBookcamp (presented...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Vision Australia has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it has ceased production of new audiobook titles. Vision Australia audio publishing sales and marketing manager Jennifer Smith told the...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
‘Murdoch pays his journalists and editors, and his companies generate much of the content they use. But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer reviewing (vetting by other researchers)...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Inside the Term 3 issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher, you'll find 14 reviews of children's and YA books publishing in September to November, as well as a preview of this year's...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning called CengageBrain. Cengage launched the...