The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing were presented at a lunch held at the Sebel... Read more
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The seventh and final Harry Potter book has broken all book sales records, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan. In Australia, Harry Potter and the... Read more
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Publishers and literary agents have responded enthusiastically to the inaugural books-to-film networking event, Books at MIFF, held last Thursday in Melbourne. The event, part of the Melbourne... Read more
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The books for the September episode of First Tuesday Book Club, to be announced on the program screening on ABC TV on 7 August, are:... Read more
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Former NSW Premier Bob Carr has been appointed to the board of Dymocks. Dymocks’ chairman John Forsyth said he was ‘delighted’ that Carr accepted the... Read more
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Dymocks may be preparing a bid for the 24 Australian and New Zealand Borders stores, according to a report published in the Sydney Morning Herald. The... Read more
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The winners of this year’s THORPE-Bowker New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the annual New Zealand book awards dinner on Sunday 29 July... Read more
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The late New Zealand author Janet Frame was posthumously awarded the 2007 Montana award for Poetry on New Zealand’s national poetry day, 27 July, for her... Read more
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The winner of the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award was also announced during the Booksellers NZ conference. The winner is Tramping in New... Read more
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The Scholastic Corporation, parent company of Scholastic Australia, has announced its full-year results for 2006-2007. The company reported net income of $60.9 million ($A69.25 million), down... Read more
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Miles Franklin winner to tour Queensland and NT Alexis Wright, the winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Award for Carpentaria (Giramondo), will tour rural Queensland... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: DK goes PoD with travel series Green light for Bertrams/THE merger... Read more
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It’s no surprise to see the last instalment of the adventures of our favourite boy wizard heading this week’s charts, but it’s good to see that... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Reed Gift Fair, Melbourne, which runs from 4 –... Read more
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‘Ahh, Book Musk, it should be marketed as an aftershave!’–Simon Morton of Radio NZ, speaking at the Booksellers NZ annual conference last weekend.
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Gordon Cheers writes: James Young has photographed flowers and illustrated large horticultural books for the last 12 years. His specialist plant photography has taken James... Read more
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