A change to Australia’s parallel importation rules reportedly proposed by Competition Minister Craig Emerson would reduce locally published international titles with print runs under 10,000... Read more |
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (A&U) is the overall winner of the second annual Indie Book of the Year. Silvey, whose book won the fiction category... Read more |
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (Random House) sold 127,378 copies through the outlets monitored by Nielsen BookScan in Australia in the book’s first five days... Read more |
The Five Mile Press has announced that Michael Herridge has been appointed interim CEO of the company. The appointment follows the resignation, last week, of... Read more |
Red Hill Digital, the digital ‘sister company’ of Australian ‘fee for service’ publisher Red Hill Publishing, has launched an ebook distribution service. The first title... Read more |
Australia-based software developer DNAML has announced the launch of a new ebook website ebook.com. The website is ‘a global concept, which is accessible anywhere in... Read more |
Melbourne-based Therapeutic Guidelines has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for ‘best ebook publisher’, for the electronic product eTG complete.... Read more |
Fox title recommended in Oprah Book ClubTen Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury, Viking) has been recommended by Oprah in her... Read more |
Among the many worldwide booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘90% of Macmillan titles are pirated’, says US... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction–Text has sold Czech rights to Julie Catt’s Normal to Jota, which published Kate Holden’s In My Skin and Matt Rubinstein’s A... Read more |
Authors on tour from September to March 2010: SeptemberJeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution)Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print)Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths... Read more |
‘Ending parallel import restrictions won’t be the end of the world for Australia’s bookshops. But if they are kept in place, the internet will kill... Read more |
As expected, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol gets top place this week on both the Bestseller and Highest New Entries charts. The Guinness World Records... Read more |
Peter Temple’s new novel Truth starts with a Templesque tease–Inspector Stephen Villani finds a woman dead in a bath. But the panic button was easily... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle, 1-5 October Tasmanian Poetry Festival,... Read more |
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American historian Milton Meltzer has died, aged 94. His works include Up Close: John Steinbeck and Tough Times.
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American illustrator Bernie Fuchs has died, aged 76.
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Conservative US journalist, author and former US President Richard Nixon’s speechwriter William Safire has died, aged 79. He wrote Freedom and Full Disclosure, among other... Read more |
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