Australia-based author J M Coetzee is on the 2009 Man Booker longlist, for Summertime (Knopf), which is released in Australia in September. Coetzee is one... Read more
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The Scribo Group yesterday announced the appointment of its sales and marketing team, in line with the recent announcement of the integrated warehousing operation in... Read more
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Anne Whelan has been appointed operations executive for Dymocks New Zealand. From 1 August, she will assume responsibility for all activities of the Dymocks network... Read more
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Australians Peter Porter and Emma Jones have made the shortlist for Britain’s Forward Prizes for Poetry. Porter is nominated for the best poetry collection (worth... Read more
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The CAL Scribe Fiction Prize is a new unpublished manuscript prize for writers over 35, who may or may not have been published before. The... Read more
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Lindfield Bookshop in Lindfield, NSW was the target of vandalism in the past week. A wheelie bin was set alight and placed next to the... Read more
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Colin Cotterill, who lived and taught in Australia for many years, has been awarded the UK Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award,... Read more
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The Booksellers New Zealand national conference wrapped up on Monday, having run from Sunday 26 July at Auckland’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. The theme of the... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Thorpe-Bowker 2009 Industry Awards were announced at a gala dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland on Sunday night,... Read more
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This year’s Booksellers New Zealand national conference closed with the presentation of this year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards at a gala dinner at Auckland... Read more
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At the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) AGM held on Sunday as part of the Booksellers New Zealand national conference, Adrian Keane was... Read more
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Mary Sangster of the Children’s Bookshop, Christchurch; Jerome Gauder of Whitcoulls’ and Emma Radcliffe of Craig Potton Publishing joined the board of Booksellers New Zealand at... Read more
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YA author Justine Larbalestier has responded to controversy surrounding the US cover of her new book, Liar, which features the face of a white girl,... Read more
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John Wiley has signed up with Attributor, an online tracking service which helps to prevent unlawful use of its authors’ content on the web. Wiley’s... Read more
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The third MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) 37 South Market Books at MIFF was held on Thursday 23 July at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Books... Read more
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Scholastic Corporation, the parent company of Scholastic Australia, has announced that operating income in its ‘international’ segment, which includes Australia, has declined from US$42.3 million... Read more
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Hong Kong Book Fair finished yesterday, 28 July, having run from 22 July. The Australian Publishers Association (APA), with assistance from CAL, Austrade and the... Read more
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Hollier appointed new manager of Monash University ePressNathan Hollier has been appointed the new manager of Monash University ePress. Hollier has extensive experience in the... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Booksurge and Amazon to sell 400,000 titles scanned by Google UK... Read more
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Authors on tour in July, August, September and October: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don’t Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Emma... Read more
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‘One bookseller in Australia took the children’s book award sticker off The Red Tree as he felt he could sell more that way, and sold... Read more
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Household names Kim McCosker and Rachel Bermingham have done it again. 4 Ingredients Gluten Free has hit the top of the Fastest Movers chart this... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date–submissions for the Text Publishing Young Adult Prize, 31... Read more
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British author, illustrator and animator John Ryan has died, aged 88. He wrote 24 books in the ‘Pugwash‘ series and 11 in the ‘Noah’s Ark’... Read more
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American author E Lynn Harris has died, aged 54. His books included Invisible Life, A Love of My Own, and What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.
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