Monday, 9 August 2010
Richard Siegersma has stepped down as CEO of DA Information Services.Marek Palka has been appointed as the new CEO.A statement from DA said 'although no longer employed by DA, Richard...

Wednesday, 4 August 2010
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner was Physics in Focus Preliminary...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The winner of each category is awarded $10,000 with another $10,000 awarded for the book judged...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award has been announced. Booksellers throughout NZ were asked to nominate the books they have most enjoyed reading, selling...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Voting for the Australian SF ('Ditmar') Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday 1 September.Nominated for best novel are:...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia's portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit for Cengage Learning with the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold True Spirit (Jessica Watson) to the US in a pre-empt, Germany at auction and also to France and Korea; Opening the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Barnes & Noble for saleRandom House: ebooks to be '10% of US sales'UK publishers...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
James Bennett has announced the retirement of promotions coordinator Annette Onorato.Onorato, who is retiring after more than 30 years with the company, will finish on 27 August. ‘We would like...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Film producer Elliot Kastner has died, aged 80. He adapted many novels to film including Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare, William Inge’s Bus Riley’s Back in Town, Iris Murdoch’s A...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
‘It's not easy being a trade publisher in Australia these days [...] Trade is terrible [...] retailing in general is now in the worst state that many proprietors and employees...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, we round up the winners of this year's New Zealand Book Design Awards, meet debut novelist Jon Bauer, author of Rocks in the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Sue Brockhoff as head of fiction, effective immediately. Brockhoff will have responsibility ‘for the strategy and development of the entire HarperCollins fiction list, local...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
After 49 years in the book trade, Dennis Flintoff, the NSW sales consultant for Pearson Library, has retired. ‘The team at Pearson would like to recognise and acknowledge Dennis's service...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In today's rights news Hachette Australia reports it has sold US rights to Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman in a pre-empt. Freeman will be known to fans of speculative fiction...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Peter...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Man Booker Prize longlist was a hot topic in the media this week. Most mentioned was Peter Carey's longlisted book Parrot and Olivier in America (Hamish Hamilton), with another...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Australian Educational Publishing Award winners announced: 4 AugustThe 34th Galley Club Awards: 6 AugustDaylesford Words in...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) tops the fastest movers chart this week after a flurry of new awards including Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year...

Monday, 2 August 2010
The shortlist for the Australian Christian Book of the Year (ACBoY) award has been annnounced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Australia (SPCKA).The shortlisted titles are:A Century of Influence:...

Monday, 2 August 2010
IPEd tenders for 'Style Manual'The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has joined with Adelaide-based company Website Criteria and the Australian Graphic Design Association to submit an expression of interest to...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week Dani Soloman interview's Shaun Micallef, whose novel Preincarnate is due in November (Hardie Grant); Annelise Balsamo reviews A Simpler Time (Peter FitzSimons, HarperCollins);...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) celebrated the launch of its Book Buzz early literacy project in the New South Wales community of Wilcannia on Tuesday 27 July.Hosted at St Therese's...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The books shortlisted for this year's Galley Club Awards have been announced. Titles have been shortlisted in 17 categories, including case bound book with RRP under $35; case bound book...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
iPad launches in NZ; 'Hairy Mclary' app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23 July, Penguin Books New Zealand's...