Tuesday, 9 November 2010
From The Miegunyah Press, publisher of the bestseller First Australians, comes the lavishly illustrated art+soul, the companion book to the prime-time ABC TV series by the same name. To celebrate...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If God Were the Sun?) Peter...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
‘Books are way over-priced, but it's not just books that you can get cheaper by buying online, it's everything. If you know exactly what you want you will find a...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The New Edition bookshop in Fremantle has opened a second store in Northbridge, Perth.The new independent bookshop's premises on William Street, Northbridge were formerly occupied by the Arcane Bookshop, which...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Branch 2010 Christmas Party: 17 NovemberSociety of Editors Dinner Meeting (VIC): 17 NovemberTo...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Hachette Australia has sold Chinese complex character rights to Kindling (Darren Groth). HarperCollins has sold The Prodigal Mage and The Reluctant Mage (both Karen Miller)...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The most pressing concern of booksellers at the 2010 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference, held last week in Sydney, was the lack of a retail platform for ebooks, according...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Australian author and editor Gib Wettenhall has launched em Press Publishing, a new independent Victorian publishing venture specialising in south-east Australian landscapes and their historical and cultural contexts. Wettenhall will...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Plantation (Di Morrissey, Macmillan), the fictional story of an Australian woman who ventures to Malaysia on a quest to unlock her family's past, is top of both the bestsellers...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Angela Meyer’s review of Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy (Text) is revisited, as the winner of the Fiction Award in the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards,...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Public Lending Rights (PLR) committee has released its annual report, showing it approved annual payments of more than $8 million for the 2009-10 financial year. PLR payments totalling $8.324...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Australian Government will not proceed with a tender process to explore options for revising and updating the Australian Government Style Manual. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that the Department...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'Lost Book Sales' website launchesfirst colour eInk ereader announcedCanadian indie publishers get onto iBookstore...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham, who will not continue in the role in 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time about her shock departure from the well-known Melbourne literary journal.Cunningham told online...

Monday, 8 November 2010
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Monday, 8 November 2010
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Monday, 8 November 2010
All the hard work ex-PM John Howard is putting in to promote his memoir is paying off, as it again topped the most mentioned chart this week. Calculations have shown...

Thursday, 4 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon.co.uk introduces agency pricing with Hachette, HarperCollins and PenguinGerman bookseller launches own ereaderBond...

Thursday, 4 November 2010
New Zealander David Glover is the first non-American to be elected to the board of the US-based Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). Glover is the chief executive officer of New...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Thanks to Murdoch Books, we have five copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo DVD to give away this week. To be in the draw to win a DVD, email...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced that creative writing courses will be taught at a Faber Academy in Sydney from March 2011. The publisher will partner with Faber Academy in the...

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
After only offering free out-of-copyright titles to Australian customers since May, the Australian Apple iBookstore launched with local paid content yesterday. Among the first group of six Australian publishers making...