‘The Time We Have Taken’ wins Miles Franklin award
Thursday, 19 June 2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate) is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. Carroll receives the award, valued at $42,000, at a gala...
Central Book Services clarifies distribution announcement
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
In yesterday's WBN, Central Book Services announced that it welcomed orders for the lists distributed by DLS. Some of the lists that were advertised are stocked by DLS for the library market...
Robotham, Cotterill shortlisted for Daggers
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. Robotham was nominated for Shatter (Little Brown), which the judges described...
UNSW Press to publish Choice Books
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
UNSW Press has announce it is now the official publisher for the Choice Books imprint. Following an agreement between UNSW Press and Choice (the Australian Consumers' Association), Choice Books will...
Around the world
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Among the items added to our around the world blog in the past week:young people think bookshops will be gone in 20 yearsauthor sues booksellers for selling his bookMarchetta gets...
Carroll wins Miles Franklin
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate) is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. Carroll received the award, valued at $42,000, at a gala...
ABA and APA join forces on environment and digital working groups
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Booksellers and publishers will come together on two major issues affecting the industry following discussions at this year's Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual national conference, which wrapped up yesterday. Digital...
Quote of the week
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
‘We need to impose some factional discipline: don't undermine, don't back-stab, don't air your grievances with each other in public'--Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill on establishing a common voice...
ABA committee: Dyer, Fenlon, Page, Whitmont join
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) president Fiona Stager has been re-elected to the position at this year's ABA annual general meeting. At the AGM, which was held on 15 June, the...
Big Book Club to run Books Alive author tours
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Big Book Club will be taking authors to ‘some places they wouldn't otherwise go' as part of this year's Books Alive campaign, says Big Book Club spokesperson Fiona Lange....
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
James Patterson is not sailing close to the wind with new novel Sail, quite the opposite, as his book claims number one position in the Bestsellers and number two in...
Forthcoming events
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award announced, 19 June The NSW Writers' Centre's Festival of...
RiP Eliot Asinof
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Eliot Asinof, author of Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Chicago'‘Black Sox' cheating scandal has died, aged 88. He also wrote four other novels, eight works of nonfiction, many TV...
Bradley, Jordan on ‘Richard & Judy’ summer picks list
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Resurrectionist by Australian author James Bradley (Picador) and Addition by Australian author Toni Jordan are two of the eight titles that have been chosen for the influential Richard & Judy summer reads...
‘De Niro’s Game’ wins IMPAC award
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
De Niro's Game by Lebanese author Rawi Hage (Picador) is the winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. With prize money of €100,000 (A$165,000) the IMPAC award is...
Romantic book of the year shortlist announced
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Long work: Claiming the Courtesan...
In brief
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Books Alive releases ‘Bombproof' coverThe cover for Michael Robotham's Bombproof, the giveaway title for this year's Books Alive campaign '50 Books You Can't Put Down', has been released. For more...
‘Girl Stuff’ wins booksellers choice award
Monday, 16 June 2008
Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke (Viking) was named the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award at the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner on Monday night. After a moment...
McGrath unable to attend booksellers dinner
Monday, 16 June 2008
Delegates attending the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner on Monday night were disappointed at the news that Glenn McGrath was unable to attend as scheduled. McGrath's manager passed on the cricketer's...
Small publishers enjoy attention at trade exhibition
Monday, 16 June 2008
The second day of the three-day Australian Booksellers Association annual conference on Monday saw exhibitors on 80 stands filling the foyer area of the conference venue at Melbourne's Sebel Albert...
ABIA awards announced
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Penguin is the 2008 publisher of the year, Scribe is small publisher of the year, Gleebooks the independent bookseller of the year and Dymocks Garden City Booragoon chain bookseller of...
Media Extra: What’s Hot?
Sunday, 15 June 2008
It has now been 100 years since the birth of author Ian Fleming - creator of the literary world's favourite spy, James Bond. To commemorate the occasion, author Sebastian Faulks...
Environment Awards for Children’s Literature announced
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The winners of the Wilderness Society's annual Environment Awards for Children's Literature have been announced. Going Bush (Nadia Wheatley & Ken Searle, A&U) took out best nonfiction picture book. Going Bush...
Around the world
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:attendance well down at BEAare e-books any greener than print?age-ranging for children's book 'ill-conceived and damaging' say...
Borders purchase: ARW to complete ‘full strategic review’ before any integration
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls (ARW), which announced on Friday that it will acquire 100% of Borders' Australia/New Zealand/Singapore operations, will need to ‘complete a full strategic review of the Borders...
NSW government to cut red tape on Sunday trading
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The New South Wales state government plans to amend current trading laws to allow all retailers to trade on Sundays. Under existing legislation, most NSW retailers must obtain government approval...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Sidney Poitier’s memoir The Measure of a Man has grabbed pole position in the Fastest Movers chart this week. The Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner star 'shares his provocative thoughts...
Forthcoming events
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Smart 2009 Conference, Sydney 10-11 June Shaun Tan in conversation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe, State Library...
Murray replaces Friedman as HarperCollins global CEO
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Brian Murray, head of HarperCollins Australia for three years from 2001, has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins Worldwide, following the resignation of Jane Friedman. Murray, who has been president of...
Queen’s birthday honours announced
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The late James Kemsley, a Ginger Meggs cartoonist for 23 years, was among the authors and artists to receive recognition in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. Among the other book-related recipients...
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