Tuesday, 1 June 2010
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the appointment of Alison Brook as head of publishing.  In the newly created role Brook, who is joining the company from Penguin Books New Zealand...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
‘Two Australian booksellers were in my office last week. The trauma they face is even worse than it will be here. Geography has protected Australia from competition so books are...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Keillor op-ed provokes debateMankell detained in Israel after flotilla attack Indigo reports 'significant expense'...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
REDgroup Retail launched its Kobo ebook platform in its New Zealand Whitcoulls stores on Thursday 27 May and an Angus & Robertson launch in Australia is ‘imminent', according to REDgroup's...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
It's Still in My Heart, This Is My Country: The Single Noongar Claim History (John Host & Chris Owen, UWAP) has won the Margaret Medcalf Award for works that display...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Four books in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse (Hachette), have appeared in the fastest movers chart, behind The...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
A National Year of Reading will be officially launched in the week of 11 July, to coincide with the Australian Booksellers Association national conference, with the ‘Year of Reading' itself...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
‘The vast majority of consumers (68%) are unlikely to or dead set against buying an ebook reader'--so finds a UK survey of readers, ‘Reading the Future', conducted on behalf of...

Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The shortlists for 18 of this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.Shortlisted and winning entries for these 18 awards were chosen by an academy of booksellers and...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Weldon Owen has announced the retirement of publisher and chief executive Sheena Coupe. Coupe, who will retire in August after 25 years with the company, will be succeeded as managing...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The recent exhibition, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond - Post Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, at the National Gallery of Australia, drew 477,000 visitors--and also achieved...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week--the best designed Australian books and covers of the year, as recognised in last Thursday's Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards, held in...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Inside the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, Angela Meyer talks to Queensland Writers Centre CEO Kate Eltham about digital publishing, the Tools of Change conference and  the new ‘if:book'...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
This year's Sydney Writers' Festival wrapped up on Sunday 23 May, having begun on 15 May. It was the first festival under the artistic directorship of Chip Rolley, and was...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced the launch of an iPhone app for the three bestsellers in the ‘Underbelly' series, written by Andrew Rule and John Silvester and published in hard...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Pearson has announced the launch of ‘its first all-encompassing online learning platform for primary and secondary students and teachers' at www.pearsonplaces.com.au. The Pearson Places website, which the publisher said contained...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
To celebrate the paperback release this month of The Lost Mother: A Story of Artand Love by Anne Summers, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 10 copies of the book to...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Mordue wins Pascall PrizeJournalist and author Mark Mordue is the winner of this year's Pascall Prize for a critic ‘whose work over the previous 12 to 18 months has contributed...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK Booksellers Association announces Google Editions dealShatzkin: 'a new take on "no returns"'Hachette UK...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
May John Connolly, Hachette (The Whisperers) Neil Cross, S&S (Captured) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) Yiyun Li,...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Political writer Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, has written a memoir entitled Hitch-22 (A&U), which has gained top place in our most mentioned chart this week. In his book Hitchens...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Emerging Writers' Festival, 21-30 MayBook Expo America, 25-27 MayBayside Literary Festival, 21-28 MayBook Expo America, 25-27...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Publisher Geoffrey Robinson Chapman has died, aged 80. Born in Melbourne and later moving to London, he founded Christian publishing house Geoffrey Chapman Ltd and was known for publishing The...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Andrew Easton, sales and marketing manager at Bookwise for over 10 years, has launched a new distribution company, Alpa Books. Easton began Alpa Books to ‘provide an alternative distribution option...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 20 May at a special event in Sydney. The winning books were:Best Designed Book of...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Author and teacher James Thomas Griffin has died, aged 80. He was the author of the revisionist biography John Wren (Scribe) and a frequent contributor to the Australian Dictionary of...