Tuesday, 12 January 2010
HarperCollins Publishers renewed the lease on its Auckland distribution centre in New Zealand on a long-term basis, as reported by Bookman Beattie late last year. The decision followed analysis of...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Some of the guests for this year's Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival, to be held from 12 to 14 February at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent, have been announced. Among...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
A&R Lithgow customer wins $10,000 New York A&R competitionAngus & Robertson Lithgow customer Kerry Brice has won a trip to New York as part of a companywide A&R competition.  The...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
More than 40 rights sales and 10 acquisitions, including a biography of Nick Cave, a Christmas title by First Dog on the Moon and Bernard Beckett's follow-up to Genesis, are...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
As Fantastic Mr Fox delights movie-goers around the nation, and sales of the Roald Dahl classic get a boost too, Bookseller+Publisher magazine has tracked down some of the other book...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey, ringing booksellers around the nation to see how the industry fared in the Christmas sale season. We will publish...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Alexandra Maramenides as managing director. Maramenides, formerly children's rights director at Simon & Schuster UK, joins the company this month. Richard...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will be hold two free seminars in Melbourne and Sydney to discuss the implications of the Google Book Settlement. With the extended Settlement...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK authors demand 75-85% royalties on ebooks US book sales fall 3%UK pulps 77 million...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Susan Hawthorne of Spinifex Press writes: 'Spinifex Press notes with sadness that Mary Daly (1928-2010) died on 3 January aged 81. Mary was a giant of the women’s movement and a foremost...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Sally Bird from Calidris Literary Agency writes: ‘I am deeply saddened to advise that author Denise Greig died suddenly on 26 December, 2009, in Sydney.‘Denise was extraordinarily multi-talented--a photographer, artist...

Monday, 11 January 2010
American poet Rachel Wetzsteon has died, aged 42. Her works include three volumes of poetry, The Other Stars, Home and Away and Sakura Park. She also wrote a study of...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of the underwater adventure Ponyo on DVD. Sosuke discovers a goldfish named Ponyo who longs to be...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Authors on tour in January include:Harvey Milkman, Footprint Books (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration)Paul Miller, Footprint Books (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Australian authors had a good start to the year when it came to media coverage. Quite a few mentions went to Peter Corris' Torn Apart, Sallie Muirden's A Woman of...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Reading Across the Pacific symposium, Sydney, 14-15 JanClosing date for the Finch Memoir Prize, 18 JanuaryGoogle...

Monday, 11 January 2010
Dan Brown gets his time in the sun this week with The Lost Symbol at number one in the Bestseller charts. Stieg Larsson and Stephenie Meyer battle it out beneath...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Wright receives honorary doctorateMiles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright has received an honorary doctorate from RMIT, where she studied professional and creative writing. Wright, whose novel Carpentaria (Giramondo) won the 2007...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
The Australian Human Rights Commission has announced the recipient of its 2009 Literature Nonfiction Award is Blind Conscience by Margot O'Neill (NewSouth Books). The Commission said the book, about Australians...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who was widely reported to have abstained from voting on last year's Cabinet decision to retain Australia's parallel importation laws because his daughter Jessica has a...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Voting for the annual Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year poll opens today. Among the book-related new words to be nominated this year are ‘heist novel'--‘a novel in which the...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Peter Sutton has won the ‘individual' section of this year's Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his book The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Following a ‘soft launch' in late 2009, University of Melbourne Bookshop is ‘now the proud owner of the first mark 2 Espresso Book Machine in the Southern Hemisphere', bookstore manager...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Collins Booksellers has announced a ‘brand refresh' to coincide with the roll out of its new-look stores, based on a new logo. ‘It's important that the Collins brand identity evolves...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced the launch of its Print on Demand (POD) program. The program will launch with an initial list of more than 150 titles which will be...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
American feminist author and philosopher Mary Daly has died, aged 81. She wrote The Church and the Second Sex, and Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation.