Tuesday, 30 November 2010
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--HarperCollins has sold Fast Fresh Simple (Donna Hay) to Germany; Seasons (Donna Hay) to Italy and Get Over It! (Bev Aisbett) to Brazil.Children's/YA--HarperCollins has sold...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Next week's Weekly Book Newsletter (8 December) will be the last for 2010. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2011 will be 12 January 2011.Any news or advertisements for the...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 3 December. A full list will appear once only in the final Weekly Book...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Alix Bosco is the winner of the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand Crime Fiction. The pseudonymous writer won the award for Cut and Run (Penguin), heading off fellow finalists...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week our reviewer Hannah Cartmel interviews Juliet Marillier on her new novel The Seer of Sevenwaters (Macmillan); Lucy Meredith reviews Katherine Howell's Violent Exposure...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Professional writers and editors have expressed concerns over pending changes to the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing offered at Victorian TAFE institutions following a re-accreditation of the course by Skills...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice. Feeling a sorry for it, he decides...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Hardie Grant Books announced today that it has re-released former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser's book Snouts in the Trough in Victoria. As reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter in October,...

Tuesday, 30 November 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)...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Authors accuse Project Gutenberg of 'wholesale kidnapping' of copyrighted workRowan Somerville wins Bad Sex...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The Ugly Truth:Diary of a Wimpy Kid, (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is top of the bestsellers chart this week followed by Australian footballer Ben Cousins' memoir, Ben Cousins: My Life Story...

Monday, 29 November 2010
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article Government discontinues tender process to revise Australian ‘Style Manual', the Department of Finance and Deregulation has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the...

Monday, 29 November 2010
Exisle Publishing has announced that it will become the publishing and distribution partner for Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) from 1 December 2010. The publishing house said in a statement that...

Monday, 29 November 2010
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will increase the allocation to its Cultural Fund, from 1% to 1.5% of the amount of its income from licensing fees and interest....

Sunday, 28 November 2010
Eleanor Marney is the winner of the 2010 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award. The 17th Scarlet Stiletto Awards were presented by actress Nadine Garner on Friday 26 November in Melbourne.Marney...

Wednesday, 24 November 2010
The winners of the 2010 Inky Awards have been announced. The Gold Inky (Australian books) was awarded to Lucy Christopher for Stolen (Chicken House). Maggie Stiefvater is the recipient of...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Hachette France and Google sign scanning dealJaimy Gordon and Patti Smith NBA winners Random...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 15th annual conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP): 25-27 NovemberTo view these...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Jeff Kinney has monopolised the charts this week with his ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series (Puffin) blitzing the competition and taking the number one spots on all three charts....

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
The summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher, the final isuue for the year, is out now. Inside, you'll find a round-up of titles that publishers are particularly excited about for 2011. From...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Children's books author Eleanor Coerr has died, aged 88. Coerr's works include Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Mieko and the Fifth Treasure, and The Big Balloon Race.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's--On behalf of New Frontier Publishing, Australian Licensing Corporation has sold Italian language rights to Last Tree in the City (Peter Carnavas), and French language...

Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Malcolm Neil, communications manger at REDgroup Retail, will leave the business to take up the position of director of vendor relations for Australia and New Zealand with the group's ebook partner...