Tuesday, 6 December 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Text Publishing has sold Dutch rights in Fishing the River of Time (Tony Taylor) to Contact; and Turkish rights in The Vanishing Act (Mette Jakobsen) to Dogan...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will hold a publishing conference in March 2012. The conference, which will be held on 1 and 2 March in Auckland, will feature...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
While they are yet to secure a sponsor for the Stella Prize, prize organisers say they expect to be able to announce the establishment of the award for women's writing...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Stephanie Plum is heading back to New Jersey after a nightmare vacation in Hawaii. To make matters worse, the man sitting beside her on the plane, misses the connecting flight...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney will join the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) as a new sponsor.    The new partnership between the university...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
A new New Zealand award for a children's book in the mind, body, spirit (MBS) genre will be launched in 2012.The planned NZ$10,000 (A$7600) prize will be awarded to a published children's...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Finch Publishing has announced the launch of its ebook program. Marketing and publicity manager Laura Boon told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher's ‘leading thirty titles... are being converted'...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
New Zealand bookselling chain Paper Plus will complete a multi-million dollar rebranding process in March 2012. Paper Plus CEO Rob Smith told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the rebranding process...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content from publishers including Allen...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers. The commission said in a...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The 2010-11 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History has been jointly awarded to A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock by Jim Davidson (UNSW Press) and Bad Characters: S-x,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The animal protection institute Voiceless has announced a new $15,000 short writing prize to be awarded for the first time in 2012. The Voiceless Writing Prize will award $15,000 to...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed Mike Shuttleworth as its new program manager. Shuttleworth, formerly program manager at the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, replaces Jenny...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Brisbane poet Graham Nunn is the recipient of the 2011 Johnno award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in Queensland. Nunn, who is also...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: QLD Booksellers Christmas Party: 8 DecemberLockyer Writers Festival: 6-9 JanuaryMidsumma Festival: 15 January - 5 February Living Literature Festival,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Sherlock Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz brings the great man to life for a new generation of readers in The House of Silk (Orion), which sits at first place on the most mentioned...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Sign up for The Bookseller+Publisher Newsletter--delivered free to your inbox once a fortnight. You can also follow Bookseller+Publisher online on Twitter, become a Facebook fan or subscribe to our RSS feed.

Monday, 5 December 2011
If you've got news you think would be of interest to Weekly Book Newsletter readers, let us know by emailing bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.

Monday, 5 December 2011
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth.Cadel Evans, Hardie Grant (The Long Road to Paris) Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Public holidays include:Sunday, 25 December 2011: Christmas Day.Monday, 26 December 2011: Boxing Day for TAS, VIC, NZ (holiday...

Monday, 5 December 2011
At a suburban barbecue, a tight-knit group of family and friends celebrate Hector's 40th birthday. Food and wine flow, but when a fight starts between the children at the party,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The winners of this year's West Australia Young Readers' Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning books are:Younger Readers AwardThe Ugly Truth (Jeff Kinney, Puffin)Hoffman Award (for the highest...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton is the recipient of the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, previously known as the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The NZ$75,000 (approximately A$57,000) prize enables a...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Bookseller+Publisher is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of book retailers and suppliers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers can complete the survey online here. Publishers/distributors...