Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content from publishers including Allen...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers. The commission said in a...

Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The 2010-11 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History has been jointly awarded to A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock by Jim Davidson (UNSW Press) and Bad Characters: S-x,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The animal protection institute Voiceless has announced a new $15,000 short writing prize to be awarded for the first time in 2012. The Voiceless Writing Prize will award $15,000 to...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed Mike Shuttleworth as its new program manager. Shuttleworth, formerly program manager at the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, replaces Jenny...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Brisbane poet Graham Nunn is the recipient of the 2011 Johnno award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in Queensland. Nunn, who is also...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: QLD Booksellers Christmas Party: 8 DecemberLockyer Writers Festival: 6-9 JanuaryMidsumma Festival: 15 January - 5 February Living Literature Festival,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Sherlock Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz brings the great man to life for a new generation of readers in The House of Silk (Orion), which sits at first place on the most mentioned...

Monday, 5 December 2011
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Monday, 5 December 2011
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Monday, 5 December 2011
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth.Cadel Evans, Hardie Grant (The Long Road to Paris) Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Public holidays include:Sunday, 25 December 2011: Christmas Day.Monday, 26 December 2011: Boxing Day for TAS, VIC, NZ (holiday...

Monday, 5 December 2011
At a suburban barbecue, a tight-knit group of family and friends celebrate Hector's 40th birthday. Food and wine flow, but when a fight starts between the children at the party,...

Monday, 5 December 2011
The winners of this year's West Australia Young Readers' Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning books are:Younger Readers AwardThe Ugly Truth (Jeff Kinney, Puffin)Hoffman Award (for the highest...

Monday, 5 December 2011
Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton is the recipient of the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, previously known as the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The NZ$75,000 (approximately A$57,000) prize enables a...

Monday, 5 December 2011
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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The federal government has announced a number of changes to the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for 2012. In addition to existing awards for adult fiction, nonfiction, young adult fiction and...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The Heffley family is trapped indoors during a blizzard but when the snow melts, 13-year-old Greg is going to have to face the music after an incident at school. Cabin...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Sweet Spot (Peter Hartcher, Black Inc.), Shane Strange reviews the third annual fiction edition of the Griffith Review (ed...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
In the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher we review 37 forthcoming Australian titles, including  those by established authors Peter Carey (The Chemistry of Tears, Hamish Hamilton, February), Carrie Tiffany (Mateship with...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to Whisper (Chrissie Keighery); Brazilian rights to the 'Billie B Brown' series (Sally Rippin); and Turkish rights to...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Smashwords adds services for literary agentsBorders US agrees to settle legal battle with...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The winner of the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book is King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya (Russell Skelton, A&U). Skelton's book beat shortlisted works Abandoned: The Sad Death...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
'One issue we are still very much negotiating (though some publishers might refer to it as "arguing") is that of electronic files and security. Who owns the copyright? Yes, the...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 2 December. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 7...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Author Emily Perkins and illustrator David Elliot are among the winners of the inaugural Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards, presented at a ceremony in Auckland on 29 November....