Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Taipei International Book Exhibition 2010, 27 January-1 FebruaryClosing date for Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and...

Sunday, 24 January 2010
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is placing thousands of ebooks online, available for Australian institutions in March. The Cambridge Books Online (CBO) system will initially hold around 6000 titles online, increasing...

Sunday, 24 January 2010
Authors appear on ‘Australian Legends' stampsSeveral Australian authors are to appear on 55c stamps in the latest ‘Australian Legends' set of Australia Post stamps, released last week. The authors to...

Sunday, 24 January 2010
The winners of this year's Aurealis Awards for the best science-fiction, fantasy and horror titles in Australia, have been announced.The 14th annual Aurealis Awards ceremony was held at the Judith...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
American author William J Lederer who co-wrote The Ugly American with Eugene Burdick has died, aged 97.  

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune have died in Haiti's earthquake. Anglade was the founding President of PEN Haïti and a member of the Board of Quebec PEN.

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Poet and painter Patricia Kathleen (P K) Page has died, aged 93. Her most recent release was a children's book called The Sky Tree (Oolichan Books).

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of The September Issue on DVD. ‘Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for 20 years,...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Authors on tour in January include:  JanuaryHarvey Milkman, Footprint Books (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration)Paul Miller, Footprint Books (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey got the most mentions this week. Shannon Bennett's food guidebook Shannon Bennett's Paris, including his favourite three-star restaurants, bistros, bars and hotels, was also popular....

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Google Book Settlement--free seminar held by CAL, Sydney, 22 January Digital Book World conference, New...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, has topped the charts again in the Highest New Entries this week at any rate--with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage,...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Leading Edge Group has appointed Simon Milne as general manager of Leading Edge Books. Milne, former CEO of the Co-op Bookshops, replaces Jayne Wasmuth, who announced in November that she...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
A bumper week for children's rights sales this week, including The Arrival (Shaun Tan, Hachette) to Sweden and Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Markus Zusak, Scholastic) to Korea. And yet more sales...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Angelo Loukakis, writer, publisher and editor of Australian Author, has been appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors. Loukakis, whose works include The Memory of Tides (Fourth Estate)...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
As reported in our Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on Friday, this year's post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers revealed the trade experienced a quiet December, with sales down 1.5% in...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010
HarperCollins has announced the recall of Baby's First Book (Boys) (ISBN 9780746087930), due to ‘inconsistent build quality in foreign-language of one batch'. HarperCollins states that ‘there are no reports of...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
The Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas in Melbourne announces its inaugural program today. Bookseller+Publisher magazine spoke to the Centre's head of programming, Michael Williams, about his career and...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Simon & Schuster Inc. has announced that Lou Johnson has been appointed as the managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia (SSA), effective immediately. Johnson, who joined the company as...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Writers at the Convent full program releasedThe full program for the Writers at the Convent program has been released. The program for the writers festival, to be held from 12...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Please note that due to the Australia Day public holiday on Tuesday 26 January, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published a day late next week, on Thursday 28 January. The...

Monday, 18 January 2010
New bookstore Westgarth Books opened just before Christmas in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote. Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas spoke at the shop’s grand opening, which included live music by local artists. ...

Monday, 18 January 2010
Among the international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:consumers punish publishers over Kindle delays with 1-star reviewsebook buyers want affordability: 20% no...

Monday, 18 January 2010
Newbery and Caldecott award winners for 2010 were announced at the American Library Association’s midwinter conference in Boston. The Newbery Medal goes to When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead, Text)....

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
‘It's a very difficult business. But in many ways, I like the fact that it's a difficult business. Otherwise, people who want to make money--by selling crap--would be trying to...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Sleepers publishing has announced that it will develop an iPhone app based on its annual Sleepers Almanac collection. Sleepers publisher Louise Swinn told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the iPhone...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Mary Martin Bookshop owners Sarita and Justin Chadwick have opened a second Mary Martin Bookshop in Norwood, South Australia.  The store, which opened on 12 November last year, is situated...