Premiers and chief ministers from Australia’s states and territories have announced their opposition to ‘significant changes’ to Australia’s parallel importation laws at a meeting of... Read more
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Dymocks has announced it will close its company-owned flagship Auckland store. The store, which is located in Queen Street in Auckland’s CBD, is due to... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced. The shortlist is as follows: Chain Bookseller of the Year 2009, sponsored... Read more
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Matchbox Pictures has announced that it has secured the rights to Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap (A&U), to be adapted for television. Matchbox Pictures’ Tony Ayres... Read more
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The Melbourne bookshop McGills, which has been trading for 149 years, will close this Friday 5 June. ‘It’s fair to say we’ve been struggling for... Read more
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The Church Missionary Society (CMS) has announced that the CMS Bookstore in Brisbane, in its current form, will close. CMS first started a book room... Read more
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The Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year. Awarded in the fields of fiction; poetry;... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 20 successful applicants for its 2009/10 round of mentorships. The ASA received over 260 entries in... Read more
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Lonely Planet has launched a ‘Back to the Traveller’s Bible’ campaign, to promote its comprehensive guidebooks and encourage travel in current economic conditions. Partners in the campaign... Read more
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The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2009 R*BY Awards, this year expanded to four categories. The finalists are: Short... Read more
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has reported that retail sales rose 0.3% in April to $19.351 billion from $19.296 billion in March, seasonally adjusted.... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association has joined the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) in calling on the federal government to bring retailers and landlords together at a... Read more
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The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) concluded on Sunday 30 May, having run from 22 May in Melbourne. Festival director David Ryding told WBN: ‘The festival... Read more
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The Reading Matters Conference–Australia’s leading youth literature event for professionals and young people–was held from the 28 to the 30 May at the State Library... Read more
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Max and Amanda Shirley took over Black Duck Books, in Toronto, New South Wales, on Monday 1 June, renaming it MacLean’s Booksellers. The Shirleys have... Read more
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Derek Dryden, owner of Better Read Than Dead, reports on this year’s Book Expo America: ‘Book Expo America closed in New York on Sunday after an... Read more
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Allen & Unwin joins UK Independent Publishers Guild Allen & Unwin has joined the UK-based Independent Publishers Guild (IPG). IPG executive director Bridget Shine said... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Google to sell ebooks Salinger sues over ‘Catcher’ sequel Hachette UK... Read more
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In rights news this week: FictionHarperCollins has sold Covet by Tara Moss to Spain after Moss’ successful author tour there; The Sea Between by Carol... Read more
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‘Subscriptions and consumer online purchasing and advertising, there’s per-page printing at public access terminals in libraries … there’s a whole lot of new ways for... Read more
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It was only a matter of time before much-lauded book The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas reached the top of the charts, in this case the... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of the Arts, NSW, 4-8 June... Read more
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Sarah Foster from Walker Books writes: ‘It is with great sadness that I advise of the tragic and sudden death of Julie Darragh, former Queensland... Read more
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Patrick Gallagher, executive chairman of A&U, writes: ‘We remember Peter Taylor as one of Allen & Unwin’s most professional and energetic authors, and are deeply... Read more
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Terry Sturm, literary scholar at the University of Auckland and leading critic of Australasian literature, has died, aged 67. He wrote An Unsettled Spirit: The... Read more
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