The Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see the film Precious, based on the novel of the same name (originally released as... Read more |
It’s been 75 years since Allen Lane founded Penguin Books. In 2010, Penguin Australia is celebrating this milestone with the release of 75 new Popular Penguins... Read more |
The West Australian Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA), the revamped Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award that was launched in 2008, has been discontinued. Following a review of... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced it has agreed to purchase children’s publisher Little Hare Books (LHB). ‘We have always been fans of Little Hare,... Read more |
The awards shortlists for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. The nominated works in each category are as follows: Children’s literature... Read more |
Bookselling chain Dymocks has announced a partnership with Melbourne-based ‘customer loyalty specialist’ Vii. Under the partnership, Vii will provide a new platform for Dymocks’ Booklover... Read more |
UQP has announced the appointment of John Hunter in the role of sales manager. ‘John will be known to many booksellers from his previous roles... Read more |
Jon Page, manager of Sydney’s Pages & Pages and vice-president of the Australian Booksellers Association, was among some 500 booksellers who attended the fifth annual American Booksellers... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the editors selected to attend this year’s... Read more |
Collins Booksellers Geelong, which traded under its historical name Griffiths Booksellers, is to close after almost 100 years. Manager Kate Hunter told the Geelong Advertiser the... Read more |
McGraw-Hill Companies, parent company of McGraw-Hill Australia, has reported a decline in revenue at McGraw-Hill Education of 9.5% for 2009. Revenue dropped to US$2.1 billion... Read more |
Sonja Yelich and Sarah Laing are joint winners of this year’s Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Each will spend five months at the Sargeson Centre in... Read more |
Berkelouw Books to open in CronullaBerkelouw Books will open a new store in Cronulla, New South Wales. The planned new store follows the addition of... Read more |
Among the international book news items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon/Macmillan stand-off ends; Hachette to adopt ‘agency model’... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Mainland Chinese rights for Rhyll McMaster’s Feather Man (Brandl & Schlesinger) have sold to Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, through Andrew Nurnberg Associates. Nonfiction–Random... Read more |
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from... Read more |
‘We’re willing to accept lower return for ebook sales as we control the value of our product–books, and content in general. We’re taking the long... Read more |
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Stieg Larsson stays top of the Bestsellers this week with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire in first... Read more |
Carmel Bird has generated quite a bit of interest with her new novel Child of the Twilight and it shows in the number of mentions... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Paris Cookbook Fair, 12-15 February Writers at the Convent, Abbotsford,... Read more |
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