Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Penguin Australia writes: ‘Photographer Alfred Gregory passed away last week just before his 97th birthday. "Greg" as he was known to his friends, was the official photographer for the 1953...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The titles shortlisted for the 2009 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature have been announced. The four titles are:Gordon Barton: Australia's Maverick Entrepreneur (Sam Everingham, A&U)Wired Brown Land? Telstra's Battle...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Penguin Australia writes: ‘A regular visitor to our shores during his writing career, Dick had a special relationship with Australian readers and the Australian horse racing industry and will be...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
To celebrate the announcement of Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five six-month subscriptions to the Macquarie Dictionary online! Each year, the clever...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Author Xinran captured the attention of many a reader with her bestselling book The Good Women of China about Chinese mothers who had lost, or had to abandon their daughters....

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: APA Digital Publishing Seminar in Australia, Sydney 17 FebruaryRoom to Read--annual wine gala, Sydney, 19...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
It's a Stieg Larsson trifecta in the Bestsellers this week with all the ‘Millennium' trilogy books appearing in the top three spots. Erica Spindler's Blood Vines is number one in...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Writers at the Convent, held at Melbourne's Abbotsford convent from 12 to 14 February, increased its audience numbers this year. ‘This year's festival proved what enormous potential it has for...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara (UQP) is the winner of the 2010 NT Book of the Year Award. The novel, which won the David Unaipon award for unpublished works by...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Wheeler Centre opens; first event raises $20,000 for Indigenous Literacy ProjectThe Wheeler Centre officially opened on Friday night, with the Centre's first event, A Gala Night of Storytelling, raising $20,000...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher reached subscribers last week.Among the top picks in the reviews pages this issue were: Below the Styx (Michael Meehan, A&U); The River: A Journey through...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Actually, it's more like phrases of the week this time. From Monday's digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, we couldn't help but notice the following terms: 'hairy people in the basement...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Finch Publishing will be seeking compensation for a breach of copyright on the US website scribd. ‘An illegal digital version of one of our books, Bully Blocking by Evelyn Field,...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Readers will pay more than they currently do for ebooks, but not much more; ebook publishing and digital marketing are not so scary once you get started; digital rights and...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
As an addendum event to Monday's digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, a ‘digital chat' session featuring New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum founder Martin Taylor and Google's Chris Palma, was held...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Bookseller+Publisher Online has launched a new books blog, Fancy Goods. Fancy Goods, which can be found at http://www.fancygoods.com.au/, will include occasional reviews and select industry news, as well as personal posts...

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Oxfam bookshops raise the ire of UK booksellers and authorsUK reports big drop in rights...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Paris Cookbook Fair, 12-15 February Writers at the Convent, Abbotsford, VIC, 12-14 FebruaryAPA Digital Publishing...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Stieg Larsson stays top of the Bestsellers this week with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire in first and second place respectively. Garth...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Collins Booksellers Geelong, which traded under its historical name Griffiths Booksellers, is to close after almost 100 years. Manager Kate Hunter told the Geelong Advertiser the closure of the Geelong, Victoria...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Sonja Yelich and Sarah Laing are joint winners of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Each will spend five months at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland and receive a NZ$20,000 grant...

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Bookselling chain Dymocks has announced a partnership with Melbourne-based ‘customer loyalty specialist' Vii. Under the partnership, Vii will provide a new platform for Dymocks' Booklover loyalty program. ‘Plus they bring...