Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Kobo devices available for order from CollinsKobo devices are now available to order online from Collins Booksellers. The bookseller will sell the Kobo Wireless Ereader for $139.99, and the new...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The longlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Award was announced on 29 October at this year's Singapore Writers Festival. The longlisted titles are:The Wandering Falcon (Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Hamish...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The Australian and New Zealand nominees for the 2012 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List have been announced. The Australian section of IBBY has selected...

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Lonely Planet has launched its Shared Publishing Platform, which allows for faster production of guidebooks. The platform, which began development two years ago, allows authors to create content that can...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Inky Awards were announced on Tuesday 25 October. The Gold Inky (Australian books) was awarded to James Moloney for Silvermay (HarperVoyager). The Silver Inky (international...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
In times of war two centuries apart, two distinct worlds are linked by a single family and the house in which they live. Based on the classic novel The Chimneys...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) event in Brisbane in October attracted an audience of 200, with organisers describing the event as going 'remarkably well'. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Digital publishing is challenging business models, the relationships between publishers and authors--and the contracts that govern them.In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Andrea Hanke speaks to two contracts experts...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
‘Something has to give. We can't keep pumping out books at prices that seem high by international standards, and that consumers aren't prepared to pay... The solution we've come up...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Andrea Hanke reviews On Shakespeare (John Bell, A&U), Heath Graham interviews Miles Franklin winner Andrew McGahan on his first YA novel The Coming of the Whirlpool (A&U),...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of Australia Council for the Arts have announced details about the 2012 Residential Editorial Program (REP), to be held in May...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced that Jenny Niven has been appointed to the newly created position of associate director.Niven has most recently worked...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria next Tuesday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 3 November. The deadline for classifieds and...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
In rights news this week:  AcquisitionsHarperCollins Australia and UK have acquired The Shining Girls (Lauren Beukes) in a two-book deal including serial and audio rights, from Oliver Munson at Blake Friedman. HarperFiction...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Javier Moro wins 600,000 Euro Planeta PrizeApple reports 180 million iBooks downloadsUK police investigating...

Monday, 24 October 2011
Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by Karen Kissane (Hachette) has won this year's Colin Roderick Award. Kissane will be presented with the $10,000 award and the H...

Monday, 24 October 2011
Screen Australia funding for book adaptationsScreen Australia has approved funding for the development of a number of feature films based on Australian books in its latest funding round. Screen Australia...

Monday, 24 October 2011
Margaret Wild is the recipient of the 2011 Lady Cutler Award. South-African born Wild, who moved to Australia in the early 1970s, has written more than 70 children's books as...

Monday, 24 October 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Australian Copyright Council 2011 Seminars - Melbourne: 24-28 Oct2011 ACBA Conference in Melbourne: 26-28 October Applications...

Monday, 24 October 2011
Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot (HarperCollins), the third novel from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Middlesex, is about a love triangle between three Ivy League undergraduates in the early 1980s. It's...

Monday, 24 October 2011
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Monday, 24 October 2011
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Monday, 24 October 2011
OctoberBelinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart,...

Sunday, 23 October 2011
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Festival, to be held between 2 and 18 March 2012, was launched on 19 October. Among the international authors who will participate in next...

Sunday, 23 October 2011
Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has announced that Deena Shiff, group managing director of Telstra Applications and Ventures Group, will replace Sandra Yates AO, as chair of the festival. Yates announced in...

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Penguin Australia has announced that it will stop producing new titles in the Aussie Bites and Aussie Chomps series after 2012. Penguin children's books publisher Jane Godwin told the Weekly...