Dymocks last night unveiled a new Digital Books initiative that offers customers a choice of over 120,000 digital e-book titles, as well as more than... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that CEO Barbara Cullen has resigned and will be leaving the association on 5 December 2007. ABA president... Read more
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The State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the inaugural Inky awards, Australia’s first teenage choice book prize. The... Read more
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The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced changes to the way it will distribute payments in the new year. Under CALdirect, a new system to... Read more
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Melbourne CBD bookseller Reader’s Feast has announced ambitious plans for a major Crime and Justice literary festival, to be held in Melbourne next July. At... Read more
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Almost 40 booksellers and aspiring booksellers attended a two-day ‘introduction to the bookselling industry’ training seminar hosted by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) last weekend.... Read more
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After several months of building–and the loss of some stock when some unexpectedly wet Sydney weather coincided with some roof work–the Better Read than Dead... Read more
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Australia’s Great Desert Tracks Atlas and Guide by Ian Glover and Len Zell (Hema Maps/Wild Discovery Guides) has taken out two major awards at this year’s... Read more
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Two Australian cookbooks, both published by Allen & Unwin, have received Gold Ribbon prizes at the 2007 Cordon D’Or Culinary Arts awards. Tolarno Bistro by... Read more
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Poet David Rowbotham has been named as the recipient of this year’s Patrick White award. The award, worth $25,000, was established by Patrick White in... Read more
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The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of its inaugural genre fiction award, supported by New Holland Publishers. First prize went to Maria Simms... Read more
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Chinese author Jiang Rong has been named as the winner of the inaugural Man Asia Literary Prize for his novel Wolf Totem (Penguin). The Man... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Campus Booksellers Association conference, Sydney 14-16 November 9th NSW... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: St Aubyn takes out French prize Canadians get ‘book rage’ Ghosts... Read more
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‘I’ve been a ghost for the past eighteen months […] It probably pays less per hour than stitching trainers in the Philippines and it’s been... Read more
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The same two books that were first and second last week in the bestseller charts are up there again–Matthew Reilly’s Six Sacred Stones and Patricia... Read more
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Literary agent Margaret Gee writes: I had known Bob for twenty years and he was a cherished friend and author. He shot to bestsellerdom in... Read more
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Author Norman Mailer, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for Armies of the Night and The Executioner’s Song, has died aged 84.
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