Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced two programs of interest to the publishing industry to run as part of the 2009 festival: the Digital Publishing Program,... Read more |
Random House is offering consumers a free ebook of the Wil Anderson title Survival of the Dumbest, in what marketing manager Brett Osmond says is... Read more |
Specialist in alternative book formats ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has partnered with two more Australian publishers, Fremantle Press and Black Dog Books, to create alternative formats of... Read more |
Lonely Planet opens its world-first concept store today in Sydney Airport’s international terminal, as part of Sydney Airport’s $500 million International Terminal redevelopment. Lonely Planet... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced a funding concert to take place on 25 August 2009, during Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to raise funds... Read more |
Chronicles Bookstore in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, closed on 31 May due to an increase in rent. Owners Sue and Ian Boyle ran Chronicles... Read more |
The NZ Digital Publishing Forum held a two-day conference in Auckland from 24 to 25 June, entitled ‘The Future of the Book’. The conference included... Read more |
HarperCollins book raises over $300,000 for bushfire appeal HarperCollins has announced that national sales from Black Saturday: Stories of Love, Loss and Courage from the... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our around the world blog in the past week: Penguin UK makes 100 redundant Amazon to put ads into... Read more |
FictionAllen & Unwin has sold rights to Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap to Openhouse publishing in Korea, Mish in Slovenia and Ripol Classic in Russia; and... Read more |
‘Australia’s book industry is waiting anxiously for the release of a Productivity Commission report … which could change the face of book retailing’–Kerry O’Brien, presenting... Read more |
Authors on tour in July and August: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy) Scott Frost, Hachette (Don’t Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Emma Tom,... Read more |
Stephenie, Stephanie, whichever way you spell it, the name is at the top of the charts this week–Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse is at number one in the Bestsellers (no... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Common Readers and... Read more |
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