Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Dymocks South Melbourne, in Victoria, and Dymocks Castle Hill, in New South Wales, have closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter the closures of both stores were...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton has been voted the winner of the Australian Book Review's Favorite Australian Novels poll. ‘A perennial favourite since its publication in 1991, [Cloudstreet] was the overwhelming...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Australian author Frank Moorhouse has announced he will boycott a writers' tour of China in protest against the imprisonment of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo. The tour, which has been funded by...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
HarperCollins UK and International CEO Victoria Barnsley has announced the appointment of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand CEO Michael Moynahan to the Board of Directors of HarperCollins India. Barnsley said...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Did you know Rebecca James, author of the highly anticipated debut Beautiful Malice, is the sister of author Wendy James?Read what Wendy has to say about siblings and her latest...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Hardie Grant has sold French rights to Meet Me at Mike's (Pip Lincolne) to Hachette Livre.Children's--Scholastic has licensed Canadian rights to Jatta (Jenny Hale). Fremantle Press...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
‘Just because a book is out of print doesn't mean it belongs to Google. It belongs to me. And if I want to sell my rights to anybody, why the...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Former Children's Book Council of Australia national president Bronwen Bennett has entered the publishing world with the launch of the new children's publisher Show & Tell Publishing.The company, based in Melbourne,...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
The Jaipur Literature Festival, which ran from 21 to 25 January, attracted more than 20,000 people and more than 200 speakers. Among the speakers was Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler,...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon vs Macmillan: ebook price war breaks outApple demands Stanza changesStanford University re-signs with GoogleAbu...

Monday, 1 February 2010
American author Louis Auchincloss has died, aged 92. He wrote Sybil, A Law for the Lion and The Rector of Justin among other titles. 

Monday, 1 February 2010
American author and professor Erich Segal has died, aged 72. Love Story was his most famous work, he also co-wrote the screenplay for Yellow Submarine.

Monday, 1 February 2010
American historian and activist Howard Zinn has died, aged 87. He published A People's History of the United States, which sold more than one million copies.

Monday, 1 February 2010
American author J D Salinger has died, aged 91. His novel The Catcher in the Rye is an enduring modern classic. His other works include Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories.

Monday, 1 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...

Monday, 1 February 2010
The death of writer J D Salinger dominated the book news pages this past weekend as the book world mourned a classic author. Salinger's most famous work, The Catcher in...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is still popular with book-buying folk after Christmas and is top of the Bestsellers chart this week. James Patterson's Worst Case...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Northern Territory Writers' Centre has announced the shortlist for the 2010 Territory Read NT Book of the Year. The titles shortlisted for the award, which aims to ‘help Northern...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Lonely Planet has announced that the publication of the 15th edition of its Australia guide will officially be the publisher's 100 millionth guidebook in print. To celebrate, the company is...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Carmel Bird's latest novel Child of the Twilight (Fourth Estate) has hit the shelves. You can read a Q+A with Bird (page 45) and a review of the book (page...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
'They could have tried harder'--Lee Tulloch on Australia Post's decision to include only one female Australian author (Colleen McCulloch) in its new 'Australian Legends' stamp set. Tulloch nominated Helen Garner...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
University of Western Australia (UWA) Publishing has announced the appointment of former Text Publishing senior editor Melanie Ostell as publisher. Ostell, who will fill the role during Kate McLeod's maternity...

Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Several members of the Australian book industry were recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours. Among them were author and poet Peter Goldsworthy, who received the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his...