Tuesday, 1 February 2011
The Five Mile Press has announced that Poppy Grijalbo and Nick Matthews have joined the company in the roles of publisher and finance and operations director, respectively. Managing director of...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
SalesFiction--Scribe has sold UK rights for Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor) to Atlantic Books. Allen & Unwin has sold Spanish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex and Russian rights for...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
‘The question is really when, not if, most ebooks will move to the cloud'--Martin Taylor, director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum, praising the new Readings ebookstore, which uses ‘in the...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt reviews Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage) and Sharon Athanasos reviews The Very Bad Book (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US delays January paymentsKindle ebook sales 'outstrip paperbacks' on Amazon.comagents and publishers differ...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Kobo has launched a social ereading platform called Reading Life which allows users to share what they are reading through social networking sites. The international vendor announced today that Reading...

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Lonely Planet has announced today that it plans to establish operations in India in the next 12 months to 'develop local content written by Indian authors for Indian travellers across...

Monday, 31 January 2011
The program for the 2011 Perth Writers Festival was launched last week. The festival, which will be held between Friday 4 March and Monday 7 March in the grounds of...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January to 6 February ALIA Information Online...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, has turned to literary nonfiction to write the memoir Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) about her experience of building a house...

Monday, 31 January 2011
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Monday, 31 January 2011
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Monday, 31 January 2011
FebruaryDaniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House (Alice Miranda series) Armidale, Southern...

Monday, 31 January 2011
A group of Australian self-publishers are calling for local authors to participate with them in this year's London Book Fair (LBF), which will take place between 11 and 13 April.The Australian...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Former president of Booksellers NZ, Pierce Brooke Anderson, has died aged 81.Booksellers New Zealand writes:'Pierce was a highly regarded bookseller, firstly in Opotoki and then for many years owner of...

Monday, 31 January 2011
Independent Queensland bookstore TLC Books has created and released an iPhone application. Bookstore owner and creator of the app Tanya Caunce told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the store, which...

Sunday, 30 January 2011
Independent Australian publishing house The GHR Press has announced that it has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Arcadia UK. The GHR Press, which was formed when Goko Publishing and Hale...

Sunday, 30 January 2011
Penguin Australia has announced that art director Deb Brash will finish in her position in February. Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions said this week that Brash, who has been a...

Thursday, 27 January 2011
Broome-based author Jacqueline Wright has been announced as the winner of the 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Wright received the award, which includes a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract...

Thursday, 27 January 2011
SLQ, QWC remain closed The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) and the offices of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) remain closed this week, following the evacuation of the Stanley Street...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Well at the World's End (AJ Mackinnon). Random House has sold rights to Batavia (Peter Fitzsimons)...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced that John Hunter has been appointed to the position of publisher for the next 12 months. Hunter will act in the role while...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
'When I began HEAT I thought that the community of readers to which it appealed would also ensure its financial success. The community would grow in time, sales of the...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we revisit some of the books shortlisted for this year's Indie Award, with new review posts of Rocks in the Belly (Jon Bauer,...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced its 2010 fundraising results.The Project, which aims to improve literacy rates in remote Indigenous communities in partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation and...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
ABC Books, which is published by HarperCollins, launched its ebook program this week with 27 titles from a range of authors including Sally Wise, Steve Cannane, Craig Lowndes, Claire Hooper,...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:ebooks and territorial rights debated at DBWDRM removal instructions go mainstreamhalf of US publishers...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Gleebooks owner and chair of the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) David Gaunt was among those recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours.Gaunt received the Member (AM) in the General Division...