Tuesday, 25 August 2009
‘It's a nonsense to use the music industry as a shining example of what happens if you introduce parallel imports. Oh, and a warning if you think subsidies will help:...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Earth, published by Millenium House, has been named the world's most detailed atlas, winning both the Best Book Based Award and the Best Overall Map Product (the Graham Stanton Award),...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The winners of the 9th annual Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards have been announced. The Davitt Awards are for the best crime novels and true crime books by Australian women,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Melbourne bookseller Leanne Hall has won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, with her debut novel This is Shyness, announced on Sunday at the Melbourne Writers...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Steven Amsterdam was announced as the overall winner of the 36th Age Book of the Year Award at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday night, for Things...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The winners of this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards have been announced. The winning and honour books are: Book of the Year: Older Readers Tales from Outer...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The ‘red edged’ version of the ever-popular Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer has been released, and that, it seems, is enough reason to propel it to the top of both...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Rob McMenemy, senior vice president of Egmont UK, USA and Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) in Australia, and member of the HGE board, has been appointed as the new regional manager...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: CBCA Book Week, 22-28 AugustLu Rees Archives of Australian Children's Literature exhibition, Canberra, 26-27 AugustEdinburgh...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
A plethora of Irvine Welsh's old tales--from magazines, articles, out-of-print anthologies and the like--have been brought together to make a new book of old stories, entitled Reheated Cabbage. All manner...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The longlist for the third annual Inky Awards has been announced by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, via its youth reading website insideadog.com.au. The Inkys are Australia's...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Authors on tour from August to November: August Gareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who’s Right About Climate Change?) Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy) Eric Garcia,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The shortlist for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. Last year's Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript winner, Amy Barker, launched her debut novel Omega Park (UQP) at the shortlist...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Random House New Zealand receive environmental accreditationRandom House New Zealand has received Gold-level accreditation from Enviromark, an environmental accreditation scheme. The Random House NZ office features a full recycling system,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
In rights news this week: NonfictionBlack Inc. has sold Chinese translation rights to John Hirst's The Shortest History of Europe, dramatic. Children's Scholastic has sold Japanese rights to Let's Play...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Peter Dart, information services director at Pearson, is leaving the business to pursue other interests. Dart, who has been with the business for 25 years, was Pearson's delegate on the...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
‘When I tell publishers "you must focus, you must specialize in niches so that you own vertical audiences", the inevitable question is: "what about fiction?" [...] The first answer I...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Readers Digest files for bankruptcy in the USSimultaneous US ebook release for Dan Brown Pirate...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Central Book Services (CBS) has announced the launch of its new ebook reader, the ECO Reader. A rebranded version of the Chinese made Hanlin ereader, the ECO Reader features a...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Era Publications has been awarded a 2009 Family Business of the Year Award, South Australia, first generation division. Rodney and Sandra Martin established Era in 1971 and have taken their...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Educational publisher John Wiley & Sons has announced several redundancies in its Melbourne office, as part of a structural change that also affects operations in the United Kingdom. ‘This week,...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Fullers Bookshop is moving location in order to double the business' space and have the store on one level.Fullers has been in its current location at 140 Collins Street, Hobart,...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Three pieces of writing on Indigenous subjects are among the shortlist of five chosen yesterday for the first John Button Prize for writing on politics and public policy. The shortlist...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
In rights news this week: FictionOrbit will be publishing three urban fantasy novels by Brisbane author Trent Jamieson: Death Most Definite will be released in August 2010, followed by Managing Death in...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
In the September issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine a record 22 adult titles received four stars or more in our reviews section, and 19 received four stars or more in the...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The category winners for the second annual Indie Book Award, chosen by Australia's independent booksellers, have been announced. The winners in the categories of fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction and children's,...