Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK 'bestsellers' selling fewer copiesMacmillan US contract sparks ebook royalty debateNook e-reader is B&N's biggest...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Young Australian author Matthew Reilly casts aside Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and other contenders for first place with The Five Greatest Warriors nabbing top spot in both the Bestsellers...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ACBA annual conference, Brisbane, 4-6 NovemberRoom to Read event--Books: Bridges to Beyond, Sydney, 5 NovemberMelbourne...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough) Judy...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The wife of the late and legendary Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, has sanctioned Eoin Colfer to write the sixth novel in what isn't...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Fergus Barrowman, publisher, Victoria University Press writes:(From the Booksellers NZ website) 'We are tremendously sad to tell you of the sudden death of Heather McKenzie, in the very early hours...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
French anthropologist, philosopher and author Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. Among other titles, he wrote a four-volume work called Mythologiques about the structure of native mythology in the Americas.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction and nonfiction were announced on Monday 2 November by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett, at a ceremony in Sydney.The...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The winners of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement were announced last week. C K Stead was awarded the prize for fiction; Brian Turner the prize for...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Several Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted titles include: People of the Book (Geraldine...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The Rehearsal by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for this year's Guardian First Book Award. Reporting the shortlist, Guardian arts correspondent Mark Brown said the book had...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Random House NZ has announced it has purchased independent publisher Longacre Press. Longacre, which was established in 1994, will become an imprint of Random House New Zealand, with publisher Barbara...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Shaun Tan and Margo Lanagan have both been successful at the 2009 World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention in the US over the weekend. Tan won the...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Christopher Cheng is the winner of the 2009 Lady Cutler Award. The Award recognises distinguished service to children's literature, primarily in NSW and is administered by the NSW branch of...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Jeremy Fisher has announced his resignation from the position of Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Fisher, who has been a vocal spokesperson for the Society during...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
The shortlist for the 2009 CAL Waverly Library Award, also know as ‘The Nib', has been announced. This year's shortlisted works are:Tom Wills (Greg de Moore, A&U)The Land I Came...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Scribe has sold North American rights of Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World (Idan Ben-Barak) to Basic Books, Italian rights to Edizioni Dedalo, Portuguese...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
The Australian Council for the Arts has announced the first comfirmed guests of its Visiting International publishers (VIP) program at Adelaide Writers' Week 2010. Those confirmed so far are: Caroline...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Adelaide Writers' Week has released the list of participating writers for 2010. Among the international guests are Audrey Niffenegger (US); Richard Dawkins, Andrea Levy, Jim Crace, William Dalrymple, Sarah Dunant,...

Thursday, 29 October 2009
ABR launches redeveloped website The Australian Book Review (ABR) has launched a new-look website ‘fully redeveloped in keeping with recent scrutiny of the magazine's design'. The new website, which features...

Thursday, 29 October 2009
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller has returned to the ‘Paris end’ of Melbourne's Collins Street, where the store reopened on Wednesday, 4 November. Kay Craddock became the doyen of the antiquarian book...

Thursday, 29 October 2009
The Australian Publishers Association has announced it will host a digital publishing seminar in Australia early next year, as a new joint initiative with the Australia Council for the Arts. The seminar,...

Wednesday, 28 October 2009
The Northern Territory Library has announced the winners of the 2009 Northern Territory Literary Awards. The winners are: Bookshop Travel Short Story Award: Castronomy (Barbara Eather, Charles Darwin University) Essay...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Frankfurt sacks official over China controversiesAmerican Booksellers Assoc seeks anti-trust inquiry into discounting warCrime...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The book industry could be waiting until at least 24 November for a government decision on the Productivity Commission's recommendations to remove Australia's parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books, after...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
BBC Worldwide has denied it intends to sell its 75% shareholding in Lonely Planet, after speculation in the UK press that the company would divest itself of the travel publisher...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Penguin New Zealand has agreed to purchase the assets of New Zealand publisher Mallinson Rendel Publishers. ‘The change of ownership will take place on Friday, 18 December,' wrote publisher Anne...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The winners of this year's NSW Premier's History Awards were announced at a presentation dinner last night.   The winners included: Australian History Prize ($15,000)--Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation...