Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Text Publishing has announced that film rights to Toni Jordan's Addition have been acquired by Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea. The film is set to be co-produced by Cristina...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The 2010 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards, previously known as the Montana awards, have been announced. The overall winner of the Book of the...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The winners of the Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 27 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Alex Miller was the overall winner...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described as an ‘extraordinary book' that...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Sales of bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) continue to gather steam, with the book topping the bestseller charts for the second week in a row. The film...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Hold (UQP) has won this year's Kate Challis RAKA Award. The $25,000 award for Indigenous creative artists is offered in a five-year cycle with a different...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Robyn Davidson has won the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work-in-progress ‘Self Portrait with Imaginary Mother'. The fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the nonfiction fields of biography,...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The longlist for the 2010 Inky Awards has been announced. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, presented by Inside a Dog, a website funded by the State Library...

Monday, 30 August 2010
September Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) Christine Bongers, Random House (Henry Hoey Hobson)Steph Bowe, Text (Girl Saves Boy) Ian Brown,...

Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Random House has sold Hell on the Way to Heaven (Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy) to Italy, The Sixth Wave (James Bradfield Moody & Bianca...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness for over a year, and...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Beijing Book Fair: 30 August-3 SeptemberMelbourne Writers Festival: 28 August-5 SeptemberBrisbane Writers Festival: 1-5 SeptemberAPA...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic in Australia, and Freedom (Jonathan...

Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
There was a time a couple of years back when this book wouldn't leave the top 10 bestseller charts, and now Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) is back on...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on Friday, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 20 August. The winners...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Australian author Geraldine Brooks has been named the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. Brooks' most recent novel, People of the Book (HarperPerennial), is based...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Australia-based children's author Frane Lessac has been awarded the 2010 Muriel Barwell Award. The Muriel Barwell Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature is a biennial award of The Children's...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Bookshop websites dominate the ‘online retail (media and entertainment)' category shortlist for the 2010 AMBER Awards. The websites for Booktopia, Dymocks, Fishpond and the ABC shop are all finalists in...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK ebook price war 'absurd'; 'industry populated by nincompoops'Seth Godin abandons traditional print publishingUS...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
‘We're in effect being intellectually impoverished by the way ebook market is evolving. An American reader has more access to much more reading (listening) than an Australian reader. The Australian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
In rights news this week: Children's--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to The Phoenix Files (Chris Morphew); Simplified Chinese language rights to Zac Power (H I Larry); French Canadian...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Andrea Hanke recommends some picture books for Father's Day, Lachlan Jobbins reviews The Genesis Flaw (L A Larkin, Pier 9) and Hannah Cartmel...