Publishers/distributors are asked to advise WBN of their Christmas closing dates by COB Friday 27 November 2009. A full list will appear once only in WBN on... Read more |
Text Publishing and MUP are new plaintiffs in the Google Settlement following changes to the proposed Settlement announced last week. Australian Society of Authors board... Read more |
Jayne Wasmuth has announced that she will step down as general manager of Leading Edge Books. Wasmuth, who said she was leaving to pursue other... Read more |
HarperCollins will establish a new area within the company, charged with ‘finding ambitious innovative solutions’, HarperCollins CEO Michael Moynahan has announced. ‘As we pursue growth in... Read more |
The Land I Came Through Last (Robert Gray, Giramondo), has won this year’s CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. Gray’s family memoir was among 160... Read more |
New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera (The Whale Rider, Raupo) has offered to buy back all the remaining copies of The Trowenna Sea (Raupo), reports the... Read more |
Film rights to Tim Winton’s Miles Franklin-winning novel Breath (Penguin) have been acquired by Australian actor Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson. ‘Baker, who has... Read more |
Custom publisher Pindar New Zealand has announced that managing director Gerard Reid is ‘stepping down from active management of the business’, due to ill health.... Read more |
Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James (Picador) is on the shortlist for the Costa Poetry Prize, awarded as part of the 2009 Costa Book Awards.... Read more |
Booksellers NZ has announced the ratification of its new constitution, which will come into effect on 1 April 2010. The new constitution reflects a decision... Read more |
Nick Cave’s novel The Death of Bunny Munro (Text) has been named as a finalist in this year’s Bad S-x in Fiction Award. ‘At Text... Read more |
Di di Pietro was the winner of the overall ‘rep of the year’ award at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual NSW Christmas party... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced the appointment of Eloise Nolan to role of rightsholder relations manager. Nolan has been appointed to the position to... Read more |
The Western Australian government will allow more Perth retailers to extend their shopping hours from January next year. The extended hours will apply to large... Read more |
Bookglobe Bookshop, an online bookseller based in Sydney, has been launched. The online store, founded by director John Phillip Harding, is a general bookstore with... Read more |
Readings wins music retailing ARIAReadings Carlton in Melbourne is the winner of the 2009 ARIA Retailer of the Year Award for best independent specialist in... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N moves to block investor Is Borders... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction–UQP has sold French rights to The Kiss of Saddam (Michelle McDonald) to Editions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch/Balland and Polish rights of... 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 |
‘At Text we still hold firm to that old maxim that bad s-x is like bad pizza–it’s never that bad,’ Nick Cave’s Australian publishing team... Read more |
High-profile male authors have taken over the charts this week with Matthew Reilly’s The Five Greatest Warriors coming in at number one in the Bestsellers,... Read more |
Shrinking the World: The 4000-Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John Freeman made the top of the Most Mentioned chart... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA Victorian branch 2009 Christmas party, Melbourne, 25 November Inky... Read more |
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