Monday, 28 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:NZ Book Month: 1-31 MarchParis Cookbook Fair: 3-6 MarchPerth Writers Festival: 4-7 MarchShanghai International Literary Festival:...

Monday, 28 February 2011
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced that Egmont UK has acquired the rights to distribute all new titles from its imprint Little Hare Books in the United Kingdom. The publisher, which...

Monday, 28 February 2011
Western Australian writer Annamaria Weldon is the recipient of the 2010 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the 2011 Nature Conservancy Prize for Nature Writing. Weldon was awarded first place in...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
Penguin Australia announced last week that Bob Sessions will step down as publishing director in April. Sessions, who has been with Penguin for 27 years, and head of the publishing department for...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
The winners of this year's Territory Read Northern Territory Book of the Year Awards have been announced. Rod Moss received the $5000 Chief Minister's 2011 NT Book of the Year...

Sunday, 27 February 2011
The Kimberley Bookshop in Broome, Western Australia, is for sale. Bookstore owner Paul Adair told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he is selling the business, located on Napier Terrace in...

Wednesday, 23 February 2011
The arrangement between Fairfax Media and Allen & Unwin and the 'Good Guide' series was incorrectly reported in the email version of the Weekly Book Newsletter of 23 February (no....

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced the appointment of Natasha Besliev to the position of Australian and New Zealand managing director this week. The publisher said in a statement that Besliev,...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Varuna, the Writers' House, has announced the appointment of Elisabeth Bastian to the position of chief executive officer. Bastian, who began in her new position this week, is the founding...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that it has entered into a new publishing partnership with Fairfax Media which will see the publisher take on responsibility for the publishing of books...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Nebula Award nominees announcedUS ebook sales grew another 164% in December'More over 50s than...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Following yesterday's earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, Booksellers NZ is reporting updates from its members on the association's website. Booksellers NZ reports that Children's Book Shop Christchurch manager Mary Sangster...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
As reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter last week, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler have sold their remaining 25% stake in the guidebook business to BBC Worldwide. Crikey...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Scribe has announced it has appointed David Golding to the newly created part-time position of digital editor. 'We're too small to have departments, so the challenge has been to successfully...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
The Small Press Underground Networking Community (SPUNC) announced last week that University of Queensland Press (UQP) has joined the organisation. UQP is the latest medium-size publisher to join the network...

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
In rights news this week: SalesAudio--Fremantle Press has sold audio rights in The Magic Fair (Sally Morgan) and Barlay (Cheryl Kickett-Tucker) to Vision Australia.Send your rights news to bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.

Tuesday, 22 February 2011
PMP, the owner of book distribution business The Scribo Group, has recorded a net loss of $14.8 million for the first half of the 2010-2011 financial year. The company has also...

Monday, 21 February 2011
The top four books on the most mentioned chart received an equal number of mentions this week. Yannick Haenel's The Messenger (Text) is a biography of Jan Karski, who was...

Monday, 21 February 2011
Publishing consultant Alex Adsett writes: The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference was held in New York last week, and was an exciting meeting of international publishing innovators to...

Monday, 21 February 2011
Penguin editor Sarah Dawson has died. Family and friends write:‘Family and friends sadly announce that Sarah died earlier this month after a short illness. Sarah was a wonderful friend to...

Monday, 21 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:SPOKE Writers' Festival 2011: 22-25 FebruaryArmageddon Expo, Sydney: 26-27 FebruaryEarly bird registration closes for IPEd accreditation...

Monday, 21 February 2011
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Monday, 21 February 2011
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Monday, 21 February 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, we have a round-up of stories on REDgroup entering voluntary administration and on the same issue we look at things we keep repeating in our...

Monday, 21 February 2011
February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House (Alice Miranda series) Armidale,...

Monday, 21 February 2011
‘You can offer what you can offer, but it's different to how it used to be. Not just since Amazon or Book Depository or whatever; since Google, really, the difference...

Monday, 21 February 2011
The finalists for the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Picture books:Baa Baa Smart Sheep (Mark Sommerset & Rowan Sommerset, Dreamboat...

Monday, 21 February 2011
While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre-looking and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice...The Lost Thing is an award-winning film adapted...

Monday, 21 February 2011
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter report Penguin Australia to reduce sales team, Penguin Australia has confirmed that it has announced eight redundancies across its national sales team. The NSW...