Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Williamstown Literary Festival: 26 April-2 May Australian Publishers Association AGM: 29 April George Robinson Awards: 29...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Text Publishing recently released two titles examining the effects of war: The Pacific and Zero Hour.Now the publisher is giving Weekly Book Newsletter readers the chance to win copies of...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Last week's three top bestsellers: Our Family Table (Julie Goodwin, Random House), House Rules (Jodi Picoult, A&U), and 9th Judgement (James Patterson, Century) remain in the same top places in...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Nam Le wins PEN/Malamud AwardNam Le has added the PEN/Malamud Award to his impressive list of prizes awarded for his debut publication, The Boat (Penguin). The prize, for excellence in...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The Western Australian state government has announced increased funding for books for libraries in the state. Culture and Arts minister John Day said council-run libraries would share $9.3 million dollars...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the resignation of New Zealand publishing manager Lorain Day. ‘During her ten years with the company Lorain has built a fantastic publishing list which has...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Winners of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Awards were announced at the IACP conference in Portland, Oregon.Several Australian and New Zealand books were among the winners across...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton (Peter Thompson & Robert Macklin, Random House) is the winner of this year's Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature.The $30,000...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The shortlists for this year's Kibble and Dobbie awards were announced on Tuesday 27 April. The titles in the running for this year's $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Small Australian publishers appear to be moving on ebooks, with Black Dog Books and Exisle Publishing both confirming they have entered the market. Exisle Publishing has released 30 of its...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Random House Australia managing director Margie Seale will take on additional responsibilities for identifying business opportunities for the publisher in Southeast and Northern Asia. Seale confirmed to the Weekly Book...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
HarperCollins has announced that ‘over 100 books by Australian authors are available to the international market through the HarperCollins eBook program'. ‘Ebooks present a wonderful opportunity for our authors to...

Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Figes admits to negative Amazon reviewsBologna visitor numbers upGoogle Settlement judge promotedGaiman double on...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
The New Zealand publishing professional Gerard Reid has died. He was a director of the Book Publishers Association of NZ in the 1980s and a leading figure in the establishment...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
There are more than 70 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand books in the May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, due to reach subscribers next week. You can read what...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
As reported in last week's Weekly Book Newsletter, Penguin has confirmed it has pulped 7000 copies of its cookbook the Pasta Bible due to a typo in a recipe. ‘The...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
This week on our Fancy Goods blog we had several comments on Tim Coronel's article ‘Why can't Australians buy the ebooks they want?'. We also added a review of Anita...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
New Zealand Book Month has announced the appointment of Nikki Crowther as project director for the 2010 event.Crowther, who has over 15 years' experience in bookselling and publishing, worked most...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010
With the Bookseller reporting agent meetings are down 50%, the London Book Fair (LBF) this year is, in the words of Text Publishing's rights manager Anne Beilby, ‘definitely a weird...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
'As a bookseller, we approach book reviews very differently because for us it's more an exercise in matchmaking and helping each reader figure out what books she wants to read,...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
AprilAnthony Puttee, Sid Harta (Dream Raider: A Johnny Marsh Adventure)Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books ('Dragonkeeper' and 'Ramose' series)Chris Bryett, A&U (Over The Top)Clive Small, A&U (Blood Money)Craig Silvey, A&U (Jasper...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will hold its annual general meeting next Thursday 29 April in Sydney.The result of elections to appoint APA board members will be announced, including that to determine...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
In So Much for That (Lionel Shriver, Fourth Estate), Shep Knacker decides to retire on a tropical island, but then his wife is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer....

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Williamstown Literary Festival: 26 April-2 May 2010Australian Publishers Association AGM: 29 April 2010George Robinson Awards: 29...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Allen & Unwin launches UK listAllen & Unwin will publish up to 12 titles a year on its new UK list, with sales and marketing to be provided by Atlantic...