To celebrate the announcement of Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2009, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five six-month subscriptions to the Macquarie Dictionary... Read more |
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher reached subscribers last week. Among the top picks in the reviews pages this issue were: Below the Styx (Michael Meehan,... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher Online has launched a new books blog, Fancy Goods. Fancy Goods, which can be found at http://www.fancygoods.com.au/, will include occasional reviews and select industry news,... Read more |
Innovation Minister Kim Carr has announced the federal government will establish a new Book Industry Strategy Group. Making the announcement at the opening of the... Read more |
Readers will pay more than they currently do for ebooks, but not much more; ebook publishing and digital marketing are not so scary once you... Read more |
As an addendum event to Monday’s digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, a ‘digital chat’ session featuring New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum founder Martin Taylor and... Read more |
Finch Publishing will be seeking compensation for a breach of copyright on the US website scribd. ‘An illegal digital version of one of our books,... Read more |
The literary journal Torpedo has becme the first Australia-based journal to be made available to purchase through the Kindle store. Torpedo editor Chris Flynn told... Read more |
Writers at the Convent, held at Melbourne’s Abbotsford convent from 12 to 14 February, increased its audience numbers this year. ‘This year’s festival proved what... Read more |
Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara (UQP) is the winner of the 2010 NT Book of the Year Award. The novel, which won the David Unaipon... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for the 2009 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature have been announced. The four titles are: Gordon Barton: Australia’s Maverick Entrepreneur (Sam... Read more |
Wheeler Centre opens; first event raises $20,000 for Indigenous Literacy ProjectThe Wheeler Centre officially opened on Friday night, with the Centre’s first event, A Gala... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Oxfam bookshops raise the ire of UK booksellers and... Read more |
Actually, it’s more like phrases of the week this time. From Monday’s digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, we couldn’t help but notice the following terms:... Read more |
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It’s a Stieg Larsson trifecta in the Bestsellers this week with all the ‘Millennium’ trilogy books appearing in the top three spots. Erica Spindler’s Blood... Read more |
Author Xinran captured the attention of many a reader with her bestselling book The Good Women of China about Chinese mothers who had lost, or... 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 |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: APA Digital Publishing Seminar in Australia, Sydney 17 February Room... Read more |
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Penguin Australia writes: ‘A regular visitor to our shores during his writing career, Dick had a special relationship with Australian readers and the Australian horse... Read more |
Penguin Australia writes: ‘Photographer Alfred Gregory passed away last week just before his 97th birthday. "Greg" as he was known to his friends, was the... Read more |
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