Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Writer Maria Quinn has died. Quinn was author of The Gene Thieves (HarperVoyager), winner of the 2007 Todhunter Literary Award and recipient of a Varuna fellowship. HarperCollins writes: 'We were...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Text Publishing has confirmed it has ‘almost 150 titles either currently available or about to be listed' as ePub format ebooks. ‘In the beginning we favoured bestselling and critically acclaimed...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Designers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jackson and Keely O'Shannessy have been shortlisted for the NZ AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award.The award is open to designers who are under...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The finalists for this year's Romantic Book of the Year Award have been announced by the Romantic Writers of Australia, with the winner to be announced at awards dinner in...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
A full program for this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The main program runs from 6-8 August, with workshops from 2 August. ‘We've taken as our...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced this year's Schools' Program. This year, writers such as Cath Crowley, John Danalis, Shirley Marr, Shaun Tan, Neil Murray and Emily Maguire will be...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Details of this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival (BWF) event for young readers, writers and illustrators, ‘Word Play'--including an online program and booking forms--are now available online, here.The event is open...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) in Australia has decided to move back to the United Kingdom for family reasons.  Cindy Jones, who has been with MHE...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has confirmed it will not award a winner in its inaugural Young Calibre Prize. ‘We reached this decision very reluctantly,' ABR editor Peter Rose told...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we introduce publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall, who tells us what he's been reading; we celebrate the arrival of the July issue of Bookseller+Publisher; Laurie...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
New iPhone to feature increased ereading abilitiesApple has announced the forthcoming release of its iPhone 4, which tech reporters say will give users access to its iBooks store. ‘As an...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Reviewers continue to pore over David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre), which gained top spot in our Media Extra most mentioned chart for another week. It’s...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Henry Lawson Festival of Arts: 9-14 JuneABA Training--Brisbane: 14-17 JuneCAL 2010 seminar series--Adelaide: 15 JuneImagine...

Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Wakefield Press has announced the launch of its ebook list.The Adelaide-based publisher has signed to provide ebooks via REDgroup Retail’s Kobo publisher and plans to sign with Overdrive and Amazon.'We’re...

Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Arcade Publishing’s Dale Campisi and Michael Brady report from this year’s Book Expo America:After a certain Icelandic volcano eruption kept many publishers away from the London Book Fair it was...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:•    CAL 2010 Seminar Series – Melbourne, 2 June•    Kibble and Dobbie Award winners announced, 2...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
David Mitchell has garnered himself much acclaim and many admirers since being named by Granta among its pick of the best young British novelists back in 2003. His most recent...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
JuneBenjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea Cosies)Maggie...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Award-winning Australian author Randolph Stow has died, aged 74. Penguin Australia writes:'Penguin Books acknowledge with sadness the passing of Randolph (‘Mick’) Stow (74), one of Australia’s most enigmatic and highly-regarded...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Richard Smart will consult for the organisation.  Smart, who recently stepped down from the APA board after eight years as convenor of the...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Our publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall reports from the Emerging Writers Festival; Bookseller+Publisher columnist Portia Lindsay reviews The Quest for Justice (Ken Crispin, Scribe); and former Bookseller+Publisher assistant editor Eliza Metcalfe...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Inside the current combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher is the latest Junior Bookseller+Publisher, with news, reviews and interviews from the world of children's and YA publishing. Reviewer John Webb spoke...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter has five copies of the SBS series Empire of the Word to give to five lucky readers. An ambitious documentary in the...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Kylie Walker as food publisher.  ‘Kylie is incredibly well respected in the food industry, having most recently been editor of delicious. magazine, and...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Cheryl Akle, project director for Get Reading!, will present a monthly book segment on the Channel 10 program The Circle.  Akle, who encourages publishers to submit books for possible review...