This winners of this year’s Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards were announced last night, 8 September 2009. Chloe Hooper followed up her wins in the Victorian... Read more
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Summertime by Australian author J M Coetzee (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The full shortlist is: The Children’s... Read more
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This year’s Indigenous Literacy Day, held last Wednesday 2 September to support the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), revealed ‘a wave of support and goodwill right... Read more
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As the date of an expected cabinet decision on the future of parallel importation restrictions approaches, mainstream media coverage of the debate continues. MUP publisher... Read more
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Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts Anna Bligh last night announced a new initiative that will connect various literary organisations in the state. The... Read more
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Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the ‘soft launch’ of its new Australian website. The new website at www.simonandschuster.com.au is ‘the first step’ in... Read more
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Murdoch Books has announced a restructure of its sales and marketing team. Mary-Jayne House has been promoted to the newly created role of sales and... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Book Publishers Association of New Zealand were announced on Thursday 3 September. The best book award went to the popular... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Janet Frame Awards have been announced. Geoff Cochrane was the winner for poetry and Alison Wong for fiction. The Wellington... Read more
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Hachette Australia has announced that, from November, all titles under its Hachette Australia imprint will be printed on either FSC or PEFC paper. The publisher will... Read more
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HarperCollins Publishers has announced it will be introducing a second ‘new title’ release each month. The publisher will be changing the delivery date of its new... Read more
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Microsoft, Yahoo and the German government are among the many entities to have filed an objection to the Google Settlement ahead of the extended deadline... Read more
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Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced the appointment of Dennis Haskell as chair of the Australia Council Literature Board, for a three-year term. Haskell replaces... Read more
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ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has announced new partnerships with publishers Allen & Unwin, Black Inc. and Exisle to create ‘accessible formats’ of the publishers’ titles. RHYW, which re-purposes... Read more
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An Australian ‘online, interactive, full curriculum learning system’ has been selected by Cambridge University Press as its global flagship ICT mathematics resource. Created over nine... Read more
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Dale Campisi of Arcade Publications reports: Port Fairy’s annual Ex Libris Book Fair celebrated 10 years last weekend 5-6 September. The festival drew hundreds of... Read more
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Hardie Grant acquires Universal PublishersPlease note that in a story in last week’s WBN our heading incorrectly referred to Hardie Grant purchasing Universal Publishing. In... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kerr wins 125,000 Euro crime prize Amazon to... Read more
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In rights news this week: Rights soldFiction–Hachette Australia has sold As Darkness Falls and Dark Country (Bronwyn Parry) to the UK and The Book of... Read more
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Authors on tour from September to November: SeptemberJeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution)Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print)Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of... Read more
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‘It brings books back to life and creates a new market for books that have been languishing on bookshelves for years. From an author’s point... Read more
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Crime author Kathy Reichs has done the unthinkable! This week she has knocked Stephenie Meyer off her comfy number one spot in the Bestsellers chart... Read more
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Australian authors J M Coetzee and Cate Kennedy were neck-and-neck for the top place on the Media Extra Most Mentioned chart this week. These weren’t... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Overload Poetry Festival, 4-13 September Australian Copyright Council–2009 training program–Adelaide,... Read more
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British author and journalist Keith Waterhouse has died, aged 80. His most famous work was the novel Billy Liar.
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