Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Plantation (Di Morrissey, Macmillan), the fictional story of an Australian woman who ventures to Malaysia on a quest to unlock her family's past, is top of both the bestsellers...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Angela Meyer’s review of Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy (Text) is revisited, as the winner of the Fiction Award in the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards,...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Public Lending Rights (PLR) committee has released its annual report, showing it approved annual payments of more than $8 million for the 2009-10 financial year. PLR payments totalling $8.324...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Australian Government will not proceed with a tender process to explore options for revising and updating the Australian Government Style Manual. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that the Department...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'Lost Book Sales' website launchesfirst colour eInk ereader announcedCanadian indie publishers get onto iBookstore...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham, who will not continue in the role in 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time about her shock departure from the well-known Melbourne literary journal.Cunningham told online...

Monday, 8 November 2010
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Monday, 8 November 2010
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Monday, 8 November 2010
All the hard work ex-PM John Howard is putting in to promote his memoir is paying off, as it again topped the most mentioned chart this week. Calculations have shown...

Thursday, 4 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon.co.uk introduces agency pricing with Hachette, HarperCollins and PenguinGerman bookseller launches own ereaderBond...

Thursday, 4 November 2010
New Zealander David Glover is the first non-American to be elected to the board of the US-based Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). Glover is the chief executive officer of New...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Thanks to Murdoch Books, we have five copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo DVD to give away this week. To be in the draw to win a DVD, email...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced that creative writing courses will be taught at a Faber Academy in Sydney from March 2011. The publisher will partner with Faber Academy in the...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
After only offering free out-of-copyright titles to Australian customers since May, the Australian Apple iBookstore launched with local paid content yesterday. Among the first group of six Australian publishers making...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Hachette Australia has announced that its ebooks will be among those available on the Apple iBookstore Australia, which launched its first paid local content yesterday, and will be available on...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
The winners of the 2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Monday, 8 November. Prime Minister Julia Gillard will present the awards in a morning ceremony at...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Professor Tim Flannery is the first Australian to win the Joseph Leidy Award. The world-renowned scientist and author of The Weather Makers (Text) and Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope (Text)...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
The winners of this year's NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. Winning titles were announced in the following categories:The General History Prize: Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Bookseller+Publisher publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall interviews Shaun Micallef about his novel Preincarnate (Hardie Grant), Andrew Wilkins reviews Dorothy Porter's Love Poems (Black Inc.) and Matthia...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Crescendo (Simon & Schuster), Becca Fitzpatrick's sequel to New York Times bestseller Hush Hush, is top of the highest new entries chart this week, followed by Kate Morton's novel The...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Professor Bill Kent, the distinguished Australian scholar of Renaissance Italy and founder-director of the Monash University Prato Centre, has died aged 68. In 2004 he published Lorenzo de' Medici and...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Eva Ibbotson, the children's author, has died aged 85. She wrote magical comedies such as Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Harry Mulisch, the Dutch writer best known for his book, The Assault (1982), has died aged 83.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Australian author Cristos Tsiolkas has been shortlisted in the International Author of the Year category in the UK's Galaxy National Book Awards. Tsiolkas has been nominated following the success of...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
In rights new this week:SalesFiction--Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap to the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey and Norway, and Kate Morton's The Distant Hours...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Roz Hopkins and Tegan Morrison have joined HarperCollins as associate publishers. Hopkins will take on the role of associate publisher - nonfiction. Hopkins has previously worked for Quarto Publishing, Lonely...