This year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Alexis Wright for her novel Carpentaria, published by Giramondo. The Miles Franklin is widely regarded... Read more
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The 2007 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference concluded on Tuesday afternoon after three stimulating days held at Melbourne’s Hilton on the Park hotel. The conference was opened... Read more
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This week’s Australian Booksellers Association conference had reaffirmed the importance of the digitisation debate for booksellers, according to European Booksellers Federation (EBF) president John Mc... Read more
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The ABA conference program included Monday’s very well-attended trade display day, featuring over 70 publishers, distributors, non-book suppliers and service providers. There was a strong crowd all day,... Read more
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The AGM of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) was held on the opening day of the 83rd ABA conference. The committee of the ABA for... Read more
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Susan Duncan’s Salvation Creek (Bantam) was announced as the winner of the 2007 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award at the Booksellers’ Dinner held as a... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a new ‘comprehensive title download service’, DataPage. The service, which was launched on 18 June at the ABA... Read more
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Pearson has received the necessary approvals from the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to allow it to finalise the acquisition of Harcourt Education in... Read more
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Borders has announced that its ‘review of strategic alternatives’ for its Australia and New Zealand business is ‘progressing as planned’, with KPMG Corporate Finance preparing... Read more
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Media commentators fear a ruling by Australia’s High Court that a restaurant review was defamatory has set an unwelcome precedent for reviewers in all fields.... Read more
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Hachette Livre Australia publisher Bernadette Foley has been appointed the Australian publisher for the Orbit science fiction list. The new position, which is in addition... Read more
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Richard Flanagan (pictured), Elliot Perlman, Kate Jennings and Georgia Blain are all reportedly set to move to Random House from Picador, following publisher Nikki Christer,... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it will hold twice-yearly, state-based forums ‘where issues and ideas can be canvassed.’ ‘We welcome not just the APA... Read more
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Author Salman Rushdie will now be known as ‘Sir Salman’ after being knighted for his services to literature, announced in the UK Queen’s Birthday honours... Read more
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With the exception of chairwoman Kate Darian-Smith, the board of the literary magazine Meanjin has reportedly been dismissed by Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis. The... Read more
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The University of Western Australia Press (UWA Press) has announced the appointment of Kate McLeod as editorial manager and the departure of long-term staff members... Read more
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Allen & Unwin, which publishes the Harry Potter series in Australia, has announced a competition to win a trip to London to see J K... Read more
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Sydney bookstore Books Kinokuniya was named Australian American Express Best Recreational Retailer last Tuesday at the 2007 National Rewards for Excellence Awards. Store manager Steve... Read more
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Two Australian authors, Will Elliot and Terry Dowling, have made the shortlist of the International Horror Guild Awards in its auspicious thirteenth year. Elliot’s much-awarded... Read more
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Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Out Stealing Horses (Vintage), described as ‘a poignant and moving... Read more
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The winners of the 2007 Audies–the ‘Oscars of the audiobook industry’–were announced on 4 June at a gala ceremony hosted by Jim Dale, the narrator of the... Read more
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The readers of American sci-fi and fantasy publication Locus Magazine have cast their votes in this year’s Locus Awards. Best science fiction novel went to Rainbows End (Vernor... Read more
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Crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers and straight-down-the-line thrillers feature in this week’s highest new entries chart. Maverick detective Harry Bosch is back in Michael Connelly’s The Overlook,... Read more
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Spielberg buys film rights to ‘The Unknown Terrorist’Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studio has reportedly paid ‘a massive sum’ to secure the film rights to Richard Flanagan’s... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: announcement of the Miles Franklin Award on 21 June APA... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Is Amazon Kindle e-reader and e-book catalogue set for release? Questions... Read more
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‘I’ve not yet met a bookseller who’s cynical or who’s lost their passion for books.’–Susan Duncan, on accepting the Booksellers Choice award for Salvation Creek... Read more
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Former bookseller Elaine Storey writes: ‘It is with great sadness that I inform the book trade that Merv Storey died in hospital on 9 June... Read more
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American philosopher and writer Richard Rorty, whose large body of work includes the study of philosophy Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press)... Read more
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