Monday, 11 October 2010
The Australian Poetry Centre and the Poets Union will merge to form a national organisation at the start of 2011. The two organisations will join forces as of the 1...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Online book retailer The Nile has relaunched its Australian and New Zealand websites. The new-look websites, TheNile.com.au and TheNile.co.nz, feature improved functionality, increased presence of social media tools and a more...

Monday, 11 October 2010
John Ajvide Lindqvist's chilling vampire tale Let The Right One In is about to explode across cinema screens as the US-adaptation ‘Let Me In'. Directed by Cloverfield's Matt Reeves, this...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Former bookseller and publisher Margaret Hamilton has opened a new centre for children's books in New South Wales. Pinerolo, The Children's Book Cottage, is located at Blackheath in the Blue...

Monday, 11 October 2010
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Monday, 11 October 2010
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Monday, 11 October 2010
Ex-Good News Week panellist Corinne Grant has put her pen to paper to describe a messy year of her life in her new book Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Queensland Writer's Week: 11-17 OctoberSubmissions close for 2011 Finch Memoir Prize: 15 OctoberRedact 2010 - Editors...

Monday, 11 October 2010
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Chinese academic and writer Liu Xiaobo. Liu, who is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in China, was awarded the prize...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The Tree, a film based on Judy Pascoe's Australian novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree, is the story of an Australian family dealing with the unexpected death of...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand have announced that they will reprint a new edition of Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom (Fourth Estate) following the identification of errors within the text last...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts is considering an overhaul of the way funding is allocated to local publishers. Director of the Literature Board Susan Hayes...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Hardie Grant Books has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it will be recalling former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser's new book Snouts in the Trough in Victoria. The book...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Penguin Australia has announced that is voluntarily recalling all copies of the books My First Animals: Let's Squeak and Squawk and My First Numbers: Let's Get Counting. The books, which...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has announced it will join forces with ABC Commercial to produce a new range of Australian audiobook titles. The partnership, announced last Friday, will see the reproduction...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Toni Whitmont reviews Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (Picador), Chris Harrington reviews Ramona Koval's Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers (Scribe) and our...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The University of Adelaide's Faculty of Sciences has announced that it will provide all first year students in 2011 with a free iPad in a move to replace traditional study...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Melbourne University Bookshop has recently launched a new online discount bookstore. Bookshop Bargains was launched last month and offers shoppers heavily discounted fiction, nonfiction and academic books, with some titles...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Nielsen BookScan launches in IndiaNielsen Book has announced the launch of BookScan India. The Indian panel will release its first week's charts on Friday 15 October, having begun collecting data...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Frankfurt Book Fair launches fair app Rowling tells Oprah she won't rule out another...

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
'Publishing is no longer a growth business: what we are contending with is the fact that not as many of us are needed as used to be. Publishing can get...