Thanks to Madman Entertainment, WBN is giving away some vampire books with a difference. To be in the running for one of two eight-title packs of... Read more |
Dymocks CEO Don Grover is calling for a booksellers meeting to discuss and launch a campaign for reform to the industry, following the Government’s rejection last... Read more |
Works by Australian rightsholders are among the significantly reduced number of titles affected by the Google Settlement, after an amended Settlement was filed in the... Read more |
The Books Alive campaign will be renamed ‘Get Reading’ after wide industry consultation and the use of the phrase as a slogan during the 2009... Read more |
REDGroup Retail, the owner of Angus & Robertson (A&R), Borders Asia-Pacific and Whitcoulls (NZ), has announced it will launch a new ‘A&R Extra’ concept store in Sydney... Read more |
Gerald Murnane was announced as the winner of this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature last Wednesday 11 November, with Nam Le picking up the Best... Read more |
New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera, whose failure to acknowledge passages from other authors in his recent novel The Trowenna Sea (Raupo) has caused controversy recently,... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will hold its annual national conference next year in Brisbane, from Sunday 11 to Tuesday 13 July.... Read more |
Online Australian bookseller Booktopia has been named one of the top 100 fastest-growing companies in Australia. Booktopia was included in the BRW (Business Review Weekly)... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s ACT Book of the Year Awards has been announced. Twenty-three nominations were received for the $10,000 award, which recognises ‘excellence... Read more |
Australian-born author Geraldine Brooks has been announced as the winner of this year’s Peggy V Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The US$40,000 (A$42,800) award will be... Read more |
Several New Zealand book industry organisations have formed an alliance to promote books in the country. The National Library of New Zealand, the Publishers Association... Read more |
Text Publishing and the Griffith REVIEW have announced the creation of a new prize for emerging writers. The GREW Prize offers a week’s residency at... Read more |
The winners of this year’s YABBA Victorian children’s choice book awards have been announced. The winners were: Fiction Years 7-9: Then (Morris Gleitzman, Viking) Fiction... Read more |
Former UNSW Press director John Green has launched the new publishing house Pantera Press. The Press, which will launch its first titles in May next year,... Read more |
The University of Adelaide has launched its own e-press. The University, which has published scholarly works under various guises since the 1920s (including the Hassell... Read more |
Australian Children’s Literature Alliance website launchedThe Australian Children’s Literature Alliance (ACLA) has launched its website at http://www.acla.org.au/. The site features an events calendar of upcoming children’s... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Su Tong wins Man Asia Prize Random US... Read more |
In rights news this week: Fiction–Fremantle Press has sold Italian-language rights to The Edge of the World (Marcella Polain) to Gingko edizioni. Nonfiction–Murdoch Books has... Read more |
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: NovemberSusan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater)Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is... Read more |
‘I think it’s a shame that a minister makes comments such as "go buy your books overseas"’–Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill, responding to comments... Read more |
The unthinkable has happened–there’s not one Stephenie Meyer title in the Bestsellers chart (top ten) nor the top five of the Highest New Entries or... Read more |
Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, received all manner of mentions in Media Extra this week. Her new book, The Lacuna, has been keenly... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW & Publishers 2009 Christmas Party, Glebe, NSW, 18... Read more |
Bob Bryant from Quarto Marketing Australia writes: ‘Steve Evans, managing director of QED Publishing, has died in London after battling cancer for the past eight... Read more |
Author, art historian and former professor Donald Harington has died, aged 73. He wrote 15 novels about a fictional town called ‘Stay More’. His last... Read more |
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