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Monday, 14 November 2011
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Monday, 14 November 2011
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On tour 

Monday, 14 November 2011
NovemberJohn Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and Melbourne.Janelle Bloom, Ebury (My Favourite Food for...

RiP John Ivimey 

Monday, 14 November 2011
John Ivimey, founder and proprietor of Boat Books (opened 1965) and The Cookery Book (opened 1985) has died.Jennifer Ivimey, his daughter, writes:‘Dad was entrepreneurial in his approach to business, and his bookshops...

Giveaway: double movie pass! 

Monday, 14 November 2011
We Need To Talk About Kevin, an adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel, is told through the eyes of Eva, an anguished mother who struggles to connect with her son,...

2011 KROC Awards winners announced 

Monday, 14 November 2011
The winners of this year's Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children's choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are:Picture storybooksMr Chicken Goes...

2011 KROC Awards winners announced 

Monday, 14 November 2011
The winners of this year's Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children's choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are:Picture storybooksMr Chicken Goes...

2012 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize shortlist announced 

Monday, 14 November 2011
The shortlist for the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted authors are:Amy Espeseth (Trouble Telling the Weather)Andrew Lindsay (Manly)Hugo Wilcken (The Reflection). The...

2012 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize shortlist announced 

Monday, 14 November 2011
The shortlist for the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted authors are:Amy Espeseth (Trouble Telling the Weather)Andrew Lindsay (Manly)Hugo Wilcken (The Reflection). The...

Media Extra: What’s hot? 

Sunday, 13 November 2011
All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has published a volume of speeches and occasional pieces in After Words: The...

Fishpond adds local content to ebookstore 

Sunday, 13 November 2011
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, dvds and other products to customers in Australia...

Fishpond adds local content to ebookstore 

Sunday, 13 November 2011
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, DVDs and other products to customers in Australia...

In Brief 

Sunday, 13 November 2011
New pop-up stores from Arcade teamDale Campisi and Michael Brady from Arcade Publications have launched a new retail venture and postal service in Melbourne, called Melbournalia. The Melbournalia stores, which will...

Forthcoming events 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November Pinerolo--The Children's Book Cottage--Open Day: 12 November3rd Annual Sutherland Shire...

Most mentioned: this week in Media Extra 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Gillian Mears' Foal's Bread (A&U) is set among the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to World War II and tells the story of...

Stay in touch with us 

Tuesday, 8 November 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.

Got news? 

Tuesday, 8 November 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.

On tour 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
NovemberJohn Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and Melbourne.Janelle Bloom, Ebury (My Favourite Food for...

Giveaway: Double movie pass! 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island resident Cameron Doomadgee who in 2004 was arrested for swearing at Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, the ‘tall man' of the title. Forty-five minutes later,...

RiP Sarah Watt 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Sarah Watt, Australian author and filmmaker, has died aged 53.Bernadette Foley, publisher at Hachette Australia, writes: ‘Sarah Watt died on Friday morning, 4 November, in her home surrounded by her...

Rakuten to acquire Kobo 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Ebook platform provider and online retailer Kobo is to be acquired by Japanese internet service company Rakuten. Rakuten confirmed in a statement its ‘definitive agreement' to ‘acquire 100% of total...

On Fancy Goods 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Heather Dyer reviews Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U), Paula Grunseit interviews Peter Corris on Mag Dog (NewSouth), Meredith Tate reviews When We Were Two (Robert...

RiP Andy Rooney 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Andrew Rooney, American 60 minutes commentator, reporter and author, has died aged 92. Rooney's books include A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney (1981), Common Nonsense (2002) and 60 Years of...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (Macmillan), Matthew Reilly's latest novel featuring marine captain Shane Schofield, is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the third week in a row....

Fullers launches ebookstore 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Fullers Bookshop in Tasmania has launched its ebookstore on the Booki.sh platform. The Fullers ebookstore, on its new-look website, features recommendations from individual booksellers at the chain's bookstores--‘hand-picked lists of related...

Around the world 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon announces Kindle lending libraryUK physical book sales slump £12 million in October Third...

Supanews to open A&R bricks-and-mortar bookstores 

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Former REDgroup-owned newsagency chain Supanews has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it will operate Angus & Robertson (A&R) bricks-and-mortar bookshops in Australia. Adrian Gaskin, managing director of Supanews,...