In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher: Stephanie Johnston tells us about Brazil’s FLIP literary festival Andrew Wilkins reports from Tonga Unwin Trust fellow Amy Tipper shares... Read more |
As the book industry awaits the results of continuing talks in Canberra and a final cabinet decision on the Productivity Commission’s parallel importation report, the... Read more |
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online last Wednesday, Amazon has announced its Kindle ereader is now available to customers outside the United States, including Australia Kindles... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced the resignation of CEO Peter Lothian. Lothian, who held the position for almost three years, will finish on Thursday 22 October.... Read more |
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has become a shareholder in the UK-based publisher Atlantic Books. A&U’s involvement as a significant shareholder follows the decision of Atlantic... Read more |
German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration... Read more |
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the 61th fair of Frankfurt’s modern era, gets underway officially from today, but already the German city is a hive... Read more |
The Striped World by Sydney poet Emma Jones (Faber) has won Best First Collection at Britain’s Forward Prizes for Poetry. The £5000 pound (A$8935) prize,... Read more |
The winners of New Zealand’s Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Awards have been announced. One of the NZ$35,000 (A$28,300) awards went to Peter Wells MBE to write... Read more |
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its sixth year, was held in Ubud, Bali, from 7 to 11 October. While final numbers will... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Inky Awards for YA literature have been announced. Shortlisted for the Golden Inky for an Australian author were Worldshaker... Read more |
The Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak professional body for editors, held a successful National Editors Conference during October, on the banks of the... Read more |
Borders this week announced its 100 Favourite Books of All Time, as voted for by customers. Subscribers to the Borders e-newsletter were asked to vote... Read more |
Australia Post bans three Popular Penguin titlesAustralia Post has banned the sale of Popular Penguin titles Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), The History of S-xuality (Michel Foucault) and Delta... Read more |
In international news from our Around the World blog: Lonely Planet appoints new head of US operations Douglas Adams a hit on iPhone German Chancellor... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction-Hachette Australia has sold US rights to Stephen Irwin’s The Dead Path (also known as The Darkening) to Doubleday via... Read more |
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable... Read more |
‘I’m tired of going to conferences and talking about "the future": we’re in it already … what are you doing?’–Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan UK... Read more |
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest presides over the Highest New Entries chart this week and comes second in the Bestsellers after... Read more |
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has been making many an appearance on the MX Most Mentioned chart of late, thanks to her new novel The Year... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 14-18 October Australian and NZ Society... Read more |
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