The shortlisted titles for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett at the State Library of Victoria... Read more |
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang and Night Street by Kristel Thornell have been jointly named the winning manuscripts in the 2009 Australian/Vogel award. Judges Cate... Read more |
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on Monday, HarperCollins has announced a restructure of its publishing business that will see Sandy Weir, formerly of Hachette Australia’s... Read more |
Random House Australia (RHA) has launched a print on demand (POD) program that will allow it to produce single copies of out-of-print titles. The program,... Read more |
Booksellers New Zealand has responded to the release in ebook format of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. The ebook, which Random House has made available... Read more |
The Australian book publishing industry (estimated at over $2 billion dollars in publishers’ sales) posted another highly productive year in 2008, reports University of Melbourne... Read more |
As reported in a WBN special bulletin last week the Productivity Commission has issued a supplement to its report on Australia’s parallel importation restrictions (PIRs). The... Read more |
Australian and New Zealand authors are among those nominated for this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Morris Gleitzman, Shaun Tan, Hazel Edwards and Margaret Mahy... Read more |
Australia-based software developer DNAML has launched a new software product that converts PDFs of trade titles to the digital ePub format. DNAML CEO Adam Schmidt... Read more |
The industry-wide Rebuilding With Books initiative is now in full swing, helping families who lost their homes and belongings in the Victorian bushfires. Administered jointly... Read more |
The Mills & Boon romance brand will get a new look as part of plans to attract a younger audience. Marketing agency BMC Sydney will... Read more |
The newly created Centre for Books Writing and Ideas together with the Victorian Writers Centre, is asking Victorian booksellers and publishers to contribute to a database of... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will again be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, to support and distribute Think Australian, the annual guide to Australia’s presence... Read more |
Albany hosts 10th Sprung writers festivalThe 10th annual Sprung Festival took place at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany, Western Australia from 17 to 20... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon forces changes to LibraryThing Scribd fights author... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction–Murdoch Books has sold German rights to MoVida Rustica, 100 Discoveries (Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish) and My Grill (Peter... Read more |
Authors on tour from September to March 2010: September Jeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution) Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print) Phillip Karl,... Read more |
‘Reworking the deal will not be an easy process … as the parties must address issues ranging from class action law to copyright, as well... Read more |
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 is number one in the Highest New Entries this week as Sydneysiders take to restaurants with gastronomical... Read more |
It’s been years since Dan Brown reigned over the Media Extra Most Mentioned chart and now that he’s back, we suspect he’ll be back for... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize–festivities in France, 21-27 September Goteberg... Read more |
Cyril Jerram, founder of Inkata Press (now a division of Elsevier Australia) has died, aged 79. Guy Kingston-Bray of Elsevier Australia writes: ‘Elsevier is saddened... Read more |
Author Catherine Gaskin has died, aged 80. Her first book was This Other Eden, other titles included Dust in Sunlight, All Else is Folly and... Read more |
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