Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The shortlists for the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Best Book in Higher Education Publishing...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Andrew Wilkins reports for Bookseller+Publisher:While the world's largest book fair opens officially for business today (Wednesday) in Frankfurt, thousands of trade visitors have already been in town for a couple...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Organisers report that audience figures grew by 20% at the 2011 ANZ Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival director Janet DeNeefe told the...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Queensland Writers Week: 10-16 Oct Litquake 2011 - San Francisco's Literary Festival: 7-15 Oct Nelson Arts...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Charlotte Wood's Animal People (A&U), an urban love story set over 24 hours, and Alex Miller's Autumn Laing (A&U), a novel about love, loyalty and creativity, made it to the top of...

Monday, 10 October 2011
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Monday, 10 October 2011
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Monday, 10 October 2011
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne,...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Wellington booksellers Ruth and John McIntyre have won this year's Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award. The McIntyres, who have run the Children's Bookshop in Wellington since 1992, won the award for...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. University of Queensland Press writes:'Our staff here at University of Queensland Press were shocked and saddened to hear...

Monday, 10 October 2011
New Zealand publisher and book distributor Addenda Publishing has been placed into voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. The board and shareholders of the company have appointed chartered accountant Kim...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Bloomsbury Publishing has launched a new digital imprint designed to resurrect out-of-print titles. The first titles from Bloomsbury Reader have been released and are available as ebooks from a range...

Sunday, 9 October 2011
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy announced this year's prize on 6 October in Stockholm. The Academy praised Stockholm-born Tranströmer,...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that a new committee has been established to oversee the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. The New...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Text Publishing has announced that Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have acquired Scottish publisher Canongate's shareholding in Text Publishing for an undisclosed sum. Text publisher and managing director...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Really Blue Books, a new independent Australian digital publisher, will be launched at the beginning of next year. The publisher, which will focus on publishing ebooks by debut authors, has...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
In rights news this week: SalesJenny Darling and Associates has sold US and UK rights to Seduced By Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Robyn Arianrhod,...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. Langford Ginibi won the 1988 Human Rights Award for Literature and Other Writing for her autobiography Don't Take...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, read the extended interview with Charlotte Wood on Animal People (A&U) as well as Heather Dyer's review of Animal People. Shane Strange reviews The Street...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
From social media 'evangelists' to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot, but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey in the current issue of Booksller+Publisher magazine.Following...

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
'We estimate that inefficiencies in Australia's book distribution system could account for between 6 per cent and 16 per cent of the price differential between the [average total price, including...