The 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair has concluded, with organisers celebrating the fair’s 60th anniversary with record attendance numbers. However, on the floor, standholders’ feelings were... Read more
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Andrew Wilkins reports from Frankfurt: Agents and rights managers made a beeline for last week’s 22nd International Rights Directors Meeting, an essential professional development event held each... Read more
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Financial journalist Alan Kohler will succeed Robert McKay as Melbourne University Publishing’s chair of the board of directors in December. Kohler, who has been a... Read more
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Angus & Robertson (A&R) has launched two new ‘concept stores’ in Melbourne at Knox City and Fountain Gate. ‘This is not just about a new... Read more
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Following Angus and Robertson’s announcement of the instalment of the first retail Espresso Book Machine (EBM), The University of Melbourne is set to install the... Read more
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The longlist for the Australia-Asia Literary Award, formerly the West Australian Premier’s Literary Award, has been announced. The award, which at $110,000 is Australia’s richest,... Read more
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UQP publisher Madonna Duffy, and literary agent Sophie Hamley of the Cameron Creswell Agency have joined the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program committee. They join... Read more
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HarperStudio, a nonfiction imprint of HarperCollins run by Bob Miller in the US, is branching out to the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Carole Tonkinson,... Read more
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This year’s Indigenous Literacy Day, held on Wednesday 3 September, has raised $185,000 to date. Chair of ILD David Gaunt said the Indigenous Literacy Day... Read more
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The shortlist for the NSW Premier’s History Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles were chosen from 268 audio/visual and book entries. Each of the... Read more
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The longlist for the Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced along with all finalists for the 53rd Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism... Read more
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The APA has announced a new limited-place workshop to provide training on digital publishing. Publishing in the Digital Space: the E-ssentials is a two-day workshop... Read more
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A Master of Communication (Book Publishing) program has been added to RMIT’s course offerings in 2009. The program will be available to students who have... Read more
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New Koorong book storesKoorong, the Christian booksellers, have opened a new store in Springwood, a suburb of Brisbane. The store manager is David Perry. Koorong... Read more
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In news from our Around the World blog this week: Coehlo celebrates selling 100 million books Shatzkin and ‘the Copernican change’ British Library acquires Hughes... Read more
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‘Maybe, depending on the book, publisher and category’–a Frankfurt-goer on whether books are ‘recession proof’.
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Kathy Lette’s new book To Love, Honour and Betray (Till Divorce Us Do Part) has claimed the ‘fastest mover’ tag this week in the charts,... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Belgrade International Book Fair, Serbia, 20-26 October Helsinki Book Fair,... Read more
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Australian children’s author Eleanor Spence has died aged 80. Her books included The Switherby Pilgrims and Jamberoo Road and The Green Laurel.
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The UK literary agent Pat Kavanagh has died. She represented a list of high-profile authors including Joanna Trollope, Robert Harris and John Irving.
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