Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter story Readings to launch pilot ebookstore with Inventive Labs platform, the Weekly Book Newsletter now understands that the pilot ebookstore will initially stock titles...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Comedian Shaun Micallef's new book Preincarnate (Hardie Grant), the comic story about time travel, cloning, space ships, and the Loch Ness monster, has made the top spot in this week's most mentioned...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Amy Tipper has recently been appointed as senior vendor manager in the Kindle team at Amazon UK. Tipper will be responsible for managing the relationships between Amazon and Australian and...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Sarah Foster is the recipient of the 2010 Lady Cutler Award. Foster is the founder, managing director and publisher of children's book publisher Walker Books Australia. The Lady Cutler Award...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The annual Australian Campus Booksellers Association conference: 3-5 November Emerging Writers' Festival, Sydney: 7 November...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
The shortlist for the inaugural Copyright Licensing Ltd Educational Publishing Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Best Book or Series in Primary PublishingFigure it Out: Statistics in the Media...

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If God Were the Sun?) Peter...

Sunday, 31 October 2010
The guest list for the 2011 Perth Writers Festival has been announced. International authors to attend the festival include:Tariq Ali (The Obama Syndrome, Night of the Golden Butterfly, Palgrave Macmillan)Simon...

Sunday, 31 October 2010
Former bookseller Steve Jones has joined the marketing department at Pan Macmillan Australia. Jones, who started in the new position this week, left his position as general manager of Kinokuniya...

Sunday, 31 October 2010
The shortlist for this year's CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature, also known as 'the Nib', has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Vital Signs: Stories from Intensive Care (Ken Hillman, UNSW...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
River Tales Bookshop in WA for saleThe River Tales Bookshop in Margaret River, Western Australia is for sale. The owners of the independent bookstore, which is located on the Bussell Highway...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Pearson Australia Group has announced that it will relocate its Melbourne operations in April 2012. Pearson Australia Group, which includes Pearson Australia and Penguin Australia, said in a statement today...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement were announced in Wellington last week. Joy Cowley was awarded the prize for fiction, James McNeish was...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The longlist for the 2010 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced on 20 October. The longlisted titles are:Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (Bridget Griffen-Foley, UNSW...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Lyndal More reviews MacRobertsonland (Jill Robertson, Arcade Publications), Chris McDonough speaks to Trent Jamieson about the second book in his ‘Deathworks' series, Managing...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Sugar and Spice (HarperCollins), American reality TV star Lauren Conrad's third instalment of the ‘L.A. Candy' series is top of the highest new entries chart this week followed by Jamie's...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
‘Penguin has a multimillion-dollar annual turnover and can afford to take risks and make some mistakes--the taxpayer should have no role in that’--Penguin Australia publishing director Bob Sessions outlines his...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Melbourne University Publishing has announced that Sophie Cunningham, editor of the literary journal Meanjin, will not continue in the role after her current contract expires at the end of the...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Fremantle Press has sold Kim Scott's debut novel True Country to Germany (Araki Verlag). Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Hungarian rights in Dog Boy...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Australian publisher Steve Parish Publishing has announced that it has entered into a partnership with software company Brisware Pty Ltd to produce a range of Apps and  ebooks for Apple...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:B&N announces colour Nook ereaderRandom signs Rushdie memoir in global, multilingual, multi-format dealAmazon hit...

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
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Monday, 25 October 2010
A new report prepared for the Literature Board of the Australia Council of the Arts by researchers at the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney...

Monday, 25 October 2010
Danielle Benda has replaced Katherine Dorrington as program manager of the Perth Writers' Festival. Benda has been appointed until March 2012 to manage the 2011 and 2012 festivals while Dorrington...

Monday, 25 October 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:The 6th Annual World Matters Festival 2010: 27 & 29-30 OctoberAustralian Festival of Travel Writing: 29-30...

Monday, 25 October 2010
The wait for the release of ex-Prime Minister John Howard's memoir is over. Lazarus Rising (HaperCollins) has hit the shelves and the controversy has hit the fan. Newpaper stories are...