As Fantastic Mr Fox delights movie-goers around the nation, and sales of the Roald Dahl classic get a boost too, Bookseller+Publisher magazine has tracked down... Read more |
Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of the underwater adventure Ponyo on DVD. Sosuke discovers a goldfish named... Read more |
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey, ringing booksellers around the nation to see how the industry fared in the Christmas... Read more |
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Alexandra Maramenides as managing director. Maramenides, formerly children’s rights director at Simon & Schuster UK, joins... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will be hold two free seminars in Melbourne and Sydney to discuss the implications of the Google Book... Read more |
Mary Martin Bookshop owners Sarita and Justin Chadwick have opened a second Mary Martin Bookshop in Norwood, South Australia. The store, which opened on 12... Read more |
Sleepers publishing has announced that it will develop an iPhone app based on its annual Sleepers Almanac collection. Sleepers publisher Louise Swinn told the Weekly... Read more |
HarperCollins Publishers renewed the lease on its Auckland distribution centre in New Zealand on a long-term basis, as reported by Bookman Beattie late last year.... Read more |
Some of the guests for this year’s Reader’s Feast Writers at the Convent festival, to be held from 12 to 14 February at Melbourne’s Abbotsford... Read more |
A&R Lithgow customer wins $10,000 New York A&R competitionAngus & Robertson Lithgow customer Kerry Brice has won a trip to New York as part of... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK authors demand 75-85% royalties on ebooks US book... Read more |
More than 40 rights sales and 10 acquisitions, including a biography of Nick Cave, a Christmas title by First Dog on the Moon and Bernard... Read more |
Authors on tour in January include: Harvey Milkman, Footprint Books (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration)Paul Miller, Footprint Books... Read more |
‘It’s a very difficult business. But in many ways, I like the fact that it’s a difficult business. Otherwise, people who want to make money–by... Read more |
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Dan Brown gets his time in the sun this week with The Lost Symbol at number one in the Bestseller charts. Stieg Larsson and Stephenie... Read more |
Australian authors had a good start to the year when it came to media coverage. Quite a few mentions went to Peter Corris’ Torn Apart,... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Reading Across the Pacific symposium, Sydney, 14-15 Jan Closing date... Read more |
Sally Bird from Calidris Literary Agency writes: ‘I am deeply saddened to advise that author Denise Greig died suddenly on 26 December, 2009, in Sydney.... Read more |
American poet Rachel Wetzsteon has died, aged 42. Her works include three volumes of poetry, The Other Stars, Home and Away and Sakura Park. She... Read more |
Susan Hawthorne of Spinifex Press writes: ‘Spinifex Press notes with sadness that Mary Daly (1928-2010) died on 3 January aged 81. Mary was a giant of the... Read more |
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