Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Oxfam bookshops raise the ire of UK booksellers and authorsUK reports big drop in rights...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Paris Cookbook Fair, 12-15 February Writers at the Convent, Abbotsford, VIC, 12-14 FebruaryAPA Digital Publishing...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Stieg Larsson stays top of the Bestsellers this week with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire in first and second place respectively. Garth...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Collins Booksellers Geelong, which traded under its historical name Griffiths Booksellers, is to close after almost 100 years. Manager Kate Hunter told the Geelong Advertiser the closure of the Geelong, Victoria...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Sonja Yelich and Sarah Laing are joint winners of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Each will spend five months at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland and receive a NZ$20,000 grant...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Bookselling chain Dymocks has announced a partnership with Melbourne-based ‘customer loyalty specialist' Vii. Under the partnership, Vii will provide a new platform for Dymocks' Booklover loyalty program. ‘Plus they bring...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the editors selected to attend this year's Residential Editorial Program (REP). The...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
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Tuesday, 9 February 2010
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Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Berkelouw Books to open in CronullaBerkelouw Books will open a new store in Cronulla, New South Wales. The planned new store follows the addition of a wine bar to the...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced it has agreed to purchase children's publisher Little Hare Books (LHB). ‘We have always been fans of Little Hare, we like what they publish...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
‘We're willing to accept lower return for ebook sales as we control the value of our product--books, and content in general. We're taking the long view on ebook pricing, and...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--Mainland Chinese rights for Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man (Brandl & Schlesinger) have sold to Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, through Andrew Nurnberg Associates.Nonfiction--Random House has sold North American rights for Absolute...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
The awards shortlists for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. The nominated works in each category are as follows:Children's literature award ($15,000):Where the Streets had a...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
McGraw-Hill Companies, parent company of McGraw-Hill Australia, has reported a decline in revenue at McGraw-Hill Education of 9.5% for 2009. Revenue dropped to US$2.1 billion (A$2.4 billion) and operating profit...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
The West Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA), the revamped Western Australian Premier's Literary Award that was launched in 2008, has been discontinued. Following a review of the award, the Western Australian Culture...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Among the international book news items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon/Macmillan stand-off ends; Hachette to adopt 'agency model' for ebooksCould US DoJ objection scuttle...

Monday, 8 February 2010
It's been 75 years since Allen Lane founded Penguin Books. In 2010, Penguin Australia is celebrating this milestone with the release of 75 new Popular Penguins in July. 'Penguin is also...

Monday, 8 February 2010
The Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see the film Precious, based on the novel of the same name (originally released as Push) by Sapphire--the harrowing but...

Monday, 8 February 2010
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution...

Monday, 8 February 2010
UQP has announced the appointment of John Hunter in the role of sales manager. ‘John will be known to many booksellers from his previous roles with publishers such as Scribe...

Monday, 8 February 2010
Carmel Bird has generated quite a bit of interest with her new novel Child of the Twilight and it shows in the number of mentions received in the media last...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
John Silvester and Andrew Rule are household names these days, so it's no surprise that their latest book Underbelly: The Golden Mile is proving to be popular with the true-crime...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
The shortlist for the inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced by judges Kerryn Goldsworthy, Mark Rubbo and Aviva Tuffield. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from 534 entries, are ‘A Darker...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of Van Diemen's Land on DVD, signed by director Jonathan auf der Heide.Van Diemen's Land is the true...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Phaidon creates Wallpaper City Guide iPhone appPhaidon has made its Wallpaper City Guides series available to iPhone users by creating iPhone apps based on the guides. The apps are available...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Dymocks South Melbourne, in Victoria, and Dymocks Castle Hill, in New South Wales, have closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter the closures of both stores were...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton has been voted the winner of the Australian Book Review's Favorite Australian Novels poll. ‘A perennial favourite since its publication in 1991, [Cloudstreet] was the overwhelming...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is...