Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Barnes & Borders?pricing and DRM dominate UK FutureBook conferenceover 100 US indie bookstores...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be the last for 2010.The first issue of WBN for 2011 will be published on 12 January. Any material submitted online...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article REDgroup annual results: ‘Promising growth' in online sales but overall $43 million loss, the REDgroup has announced its final 2009-10 full year results...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Alan Sheardown, former manager of Planet Books, has opened Crow Books, a new independent bookstore in Perth.  Sheardown told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the new store, located at 900...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nominations are open for Stanner Award: 1 November 2010 - 31 January 201155th Walkley Awards...

Monday, 6 December 2010
As newspapers prepare their summer reading lists, Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Fourth Estate) has come out on top on our most mentioned chart this week. During three consecutive weeks in August...

Monday, 6 December 2010
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Monday, 6 December 2010
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Monday, 6 December 2010
DecemberGraeme Base, Penguin (The Legend Of The Golden Snail) Richard Blackburn, Zeus Publications (‘Gatekeeper' trilogy)Kay Danes, Big Sky Publishing (Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa) Elizabeth Donaldson, Exisle Publishing (William Dobell)...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Text Publishing has re-released the original cult memoir about advertising life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s. Jerry Della Femina's From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbour was...

Monday, 6 December 2010
The winners of this year's Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award and Judith Wright Prize were announced over the weekend. The 2010 ACT Book of the Year Award...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Betty Jean Lifton, a writer, adoptee and adoption-reform advocate, has died aged 84. Lifton was best known for a nonfiction trilogy: Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (McGraw Hill,...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Bert van Bedaf, whose writings made a lasting contribution to the Dutch experience in Australia, has died aged 61. Van Bedaf wrote About the Dutch, The First Europeans to Explore...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
New category for WA's Premier's Book Awards  The State Library of Western Australia has announced that a new category will be added to the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards from next...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Maree McCaskill has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that a publishing event attended by Australian and Chinese publishers last week was an 'enormous success'....

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Dymocks has announced the launch of a same-day bicycle delivery service within Sydney's CBD. The ‘Dymocks CBD Pushy Express' will offer same-day delivery in the city's CBD or North Sydney...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Author Hugh Lunn and his publisher ABC Books have written to the Monthly editor Ben Naparstek ‘requesting an apology and removal' of a review of Lunn's book Words Fail Me...

Thursday, 2 December 2010
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Australian public holidays include: Saturday, 25 December 2010: Christmas Day Sunday, 26 December 2010: Boxing Day (not...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recorded sales growth for the eighth successive year, announcing overall international sales growth of 11.5% in books and journals for the year to 30 April...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Back in the most mentioned chart is Hand Me Down World (Lloyd Jones, Text), about a North African woman who washes ashore in Sicily and is looking for her son....

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The shortlist for the 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Best book with Tasmanian content in any genre ($25,000):In Search of Hobart (Peter Timms, UNSW Press)Wanting...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The longlist for the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The longlisted authors are:Sally Bothroyd (A Cocoa Jackson Mystery)Courtney Collins (The Burial)Richard Gosling (Bear)John Hughes (The Remnants)Lesley Jørgensen...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Tim Jones is the winner of the 2010 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature. Jones is a Wellington-based poet and author of science and literary fiction. Jones is the...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The program for the 2011 Ten Days on the Island arts festival in Tasmania was officially launched last week. The 2011 festival will take place between 25 March and 3...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
'I understand why people make these buying decisions, as consumers thinking purely about money, but if you care about making ethical buying decisions (and have the funds to do so),...