No less than 33 titles reviewed in the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher received four stars or more from our obviously very impressed reviewers. Among these... Read more |
The recently released top 10 Hitwise listing for local websites visited by Australian interenet users in the ‘Shopping and Classifieds–Books’ category has caused some controversy... Read more |
An ebook version of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (Transworld), which went on sale in hard copy yesterday, will be available for purchase from the... Read more |
The date on which the federal cabinet will make a decision on the recent Productivity Commission recommendations to remove Australia’s book parallel importation laws remains... Read more |
As announced in the Australian on Saturday 12 September, the shortlist for the 2009 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award has been chosen. The manuscripts shortlisted for... Read more |
The finalists for the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award have been announced. In the running for the $60,000 Melbourne prize for... Read more |
Attendance at this year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which wrapped up on Sunday 13 September having run from the 9 September was 29,000, up from 28,000... Read more |
Finch Publishing has today launched a new annual nonfiction award for Australian authors. The Finch Memoir Prize will be awarded to an unpublished nonfiction manuscript... Read more |
Then by Morris Gleitzman (Viking) has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. ‘To succeed in writing about the Holocaust with a light touch... Read more |
Following the announcement that it has acquired Universal Publishers (UP), Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Ian Webster as managing director of UP. ‘Ian... Read more |
REDgroup retail held its annual conference last week from 7 to 11 September, at Shed 14, in Melbourne’s Docklands. ‘This was the first time that all the REDgroup... Read more |
Pearson Australia has announced a partnership with online platform provider VIP Tone. ‘VIP Tone’s EduTone XchangeTM Platform provides single sign-on authentication for teachers, students and... Read more |
The University of Melbourne has announced it will establish a ‘new and exciting’ bookstore in early 2010. The bookstore, which will merge the recently acquired... Read more |
WBN‘s sister publication Australian Library News (ALN) has launched a new website at www.librarynews.com.au. The site contains information about ALN, the only independent, weekly news... Read more |
Infectious Diseases: Atlas, Cases, Text (Robin A Cooke, McGraw-Hill Education Australia) has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Competition’s BMA Illustrated Book Award,... Read more |
‘Twilight’ books removed from some school librariesLibrarians in some primary schools have reportedly removed Stephanie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ series from shelves and asked parents not to... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Authors taking pay cuts as advances fall Patterson... Read more |
In rights news this week: Rights soldFiction—Random House has sold German language rights in Paul Cleave’s forthcoming crime title Blood Men to Heyne Verlag. Nonfiction–Random... Read more |
Authors on tour from September to November: September Jeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution) Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print) Phillip Karl, Cadmos... Read more |
‘It can only be good for all of us if more people are in the stores’–Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster in the US,... Read more |
There has been something of a respite from Stephanie Meyer titles this week and as we wait for the Dan Brown phenomena to take over... Read more |
Tracey Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, topped the Most Mentioned chart in Media Extra this week with her new novel Remarkable Creatures.... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Books Alive 2009–author events–Toni Jordan & Gretel Killeen, Noosa, QLD,... Read more |
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Indonesian poet, writer, dramatist, cultural activist and theatre director, W S Rendra has died, aged 73.
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American poet, diarist and musician Jim Carroll has died, aged 60. His most famous work is The Basketball Diaries.
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English bookseller and author Ian Norrie has died, aged 82. He wrote, among others, The Business of Lunch: A Bookman’s Life and Travels.
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