Monday, 21 February 2011
127 Hours (S&S) is Aron Ralston’s true story of being trapped under a boulder while climbing through canyons in Utah. After the cinema release of the adaptation, it’s at the...

Monday, 21 February 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the 'Best Designed Cover of the Year' category are:An Everyday...

Sunday, 20 February 2011
2011 NZ Maori Writer's Residency announcedLyttelton author Ben Brown has been announced as the recipient of the 2011 Maori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writer's Centre. Brown, who is...

Sunday, 20 February 2011
International publisher Quarto Group, which has operations in Australia and New Zealand, has released preliminary financial results for 2010, recording a revenue increase of 7% in its publishing division and...

Sunday, 20 February 2011
Amazon's UK-based website has expanded its free shipping offer to include Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.Orders for books, DVDs and music CDs over £25 (A$40) will be eligible...

Sunday, 20 February 2011
Lagardère Publishing, the French-based parent company of Hachette Australia, has recorded a 4.8% decline in total revenue for 2010. The publisher said in a financial statement last week that the...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Ian Abdulla, Australian native artist and author of autobiographical picture books, has died aged 63. In 1993 he wrote and illustrated As I Grew Older: The Life and Times of a...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Tools of Change, New York: 14-16 FebruaryBayside Writing Competition: 15 February-15 AprilAPA Professional Development: (Sydney) Social...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature (CYL) will re-launch the Inside A Dog website in March. The website will feature new member-run book clubs as well as...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Children's editor Margaret K McElderry has died, aged 98. Working as an editor for Atheneum Books she founded the Margaret K McElderry imprint in 1972, becoming the first juvenile-books editor...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Independent Sydney bookstore Zabriskie Booksellers has announced that it will close down next week. The bookstore, which is located in the former Martin Smith's bookstore building on Hall Street in...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival has continued to increase its year-on-year audience numbers, with audience numbers for the 2011 festival up on 2010 figures. Festival founder and...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The shortlist for this year's Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (Bridget Griffen-Foley, NSW, UNSW Press)Salts and Suits...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust (Elisabeth Wynhausen, MUP), we ask 'Gender...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
With a number of book signings happening all over the country, Michelle Bridges' latest weight-loss book, Losing the Last 5 Kilos (Viking) tops both the bestsellers chart and the fastest...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Dame Judith Binney, respected historian and writer, has died aged 70. Binney specialised in the history of Maori and Pakeha engagement and her book Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921, won...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US bankruptcy filing 'imminent' sales rise but earnings fall at IndigoKobo seeking UK...

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that Macmillan Distributions Services (MDS) has been appointed to undertake all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in the Australian and New...

Monday, 14 February 2011
A number of Australian and New Zealand titles have been selected for the 2011 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children...

Monday, 14 February 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Hachette Australia has sold Wildflower Hill (Kimberley Freeman) to Poland and Norway; and The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti) to Romania.Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold True...

Monday, 14 February 2011
‘Thirty percent is a big charge. Particularly given the information you get out of Apple about your customers. To hand over 30 percent and not ever find out the email...

Monday, 14 February 2011
Ferdinand von Schirach's book Crime (Text) is a collection of true crime stories told by one of Germany's most prominent defence lawyers. Rhoda Janzen's memoir Mennonite in a Little Black...

Monday, 14 February 2011
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Monday, 14 February 2011
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Monday, 14 February 2011
Finch Publishing has announced that the judges of the Finch Memoir Prize have decided not to award a winner for 2011. The publishing house said in a statement this week...

Monday, 14 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, Southern...

Sunday, 13 February 2011
The South East Asia and Pacific regional shortlist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize has been announced. The nominees for the South East Asia and Pacific best book are:Reading Madame...

Sunday, 13 February 2011
Penguin Australia has confirmed that it has 'taken a decision to reduce the numbers of our salespeople'. Penguin sales director Peter Blake told the Weekly Book Newsletter last week the company had...