Random House has announced the appointment of Nikki Christer, former Picador publisher at Pan Macmillan, to the newly created position of deputy publishing director. The... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the creation of a new award for Australian fiction, made possible by a $1 million bequest by... Read more
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AsiaLink has announced that its Literature Touring Program, which has supported leading Australian writers to tour in Asia over the past nine years, will finish... Read more
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In what would be the biggest corporate takeover in Australian history, Wesfarmers (which owns the Bunnings DIY chain) and Pacific Equity Partners (PEP, owner of... Read more
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Bloomsbury Publishing has released the cover illustrations and blurb for the final installment of the Harry Potter series. As with previous titles in the series,... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association held its annual general meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday last week at the Camberwell offices of Penguin Books Australia. In her address,... Read more
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Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, has announced that the festival will move from its long-standing venue at the Malthouse to Federation Square... Read more
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The Big Book Club, a not-for-profit arts-based association that began in South Australia in 2003, has launched in Queensland. ‘We made the decision in 2005... Read more
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Further to the majority shareholding it took in April 2004 (see WBN 21 April 2004), Bonnier Publishing UK (previously known as Autumn Publishing) has completed its acquisition... Read more
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Those planning on attending this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference in June have only one day to take advantage of the ABA’s early-bird registration... Read more
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Publisher and creator of Aduki magazine Emily Clark has announced the launch of Aduki Independent Press, which will publish a range of nonfiction books and... Read more
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The 17th Abu Dhabi Book Fair is in full swing this week, with over 400 exhibitors from 46 countries displaying their wares in a vast,... Read more
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Nicholas Shakespeare In Australia (Vintage), a tale of his Tasmanian ancestry, has won the inaugural Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content. The $25,000... Read more
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Poet Libby Hart has been awarded this year’s Anne Elder Award for her book of poems Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Publications). The prize,... Read more
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Canberra-based author Margaret Innes, also known as the crime writer Alex Palmer, is the winner of the inaugural Meanjin/Readings Novella Award presented at the launch... Read more
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Poet Robert Adamson has won his second Grace Leven Prize for The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions). The award, Australia’s oldest annual poetry prize, is... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Galaxy British Book Awards, the ‘Oscars of the book trade’, have been announced. The Dangerous Book for Boys (Conn and... Read more
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, Random House) has won the fiction section of this year’s Kiriyama Prize with Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s... Read more
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The shortlist of titles in the running for the CAN$100,000 (A$101,000) Griffin Poetry Prize were announced yesterday. Finalists in the Canadian shortlist were: Airstream Land... Read more
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Among stories added to our Around the World blog this week: Richard Branson speculated as potential buyer for Borders UK Scottish Publishers Association undergoes changes... Read more
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There’s nothing like a popular movie or TV show to shift copies of the tie-in title, as this week’s bestselling titles–Rhonda Byrne’s guide to a... Read more
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Millennium House writes: ‘It is with the saddest of hearts that Gordon Cheers advises that Margaret Olds, after having spent many weeks in hospital, has... Read more
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Margrete Lamond, publisher at Little Hare Books, writes: ‘It is with great sadness that Little Hare Books joins John Winch’s family, the children’s book world... Read more
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