Thanks to Random House Australia, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see A Single Man, Tom Ford’s directorial debut starring Julianne... Read more |
The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes the first issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher for 2010. As well as reviews, news and interviews, Junior rounds up the... Read more |
The shortlist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, South East Asia and Pacific, has been announced. The Best Book nominees are: Summertime by J M Coetzee... Read more |
The input of book retailers ‘must be considered’ by the recently announced Book Industry Strategy Group, Senator Kim Carr has confirmed. Following the announcement last... Read more |
Following articles published in the Australian newspaper, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has defended its payments to its staff and to rightsholders. Despite being established by... Read more |
Scribe has announced that A Darker Music by Maris Morton is the winner of its inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. Morton, who was born in... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the titles shortlisted in this year’s Book Design Awards. The books shortlisted were chosen from 420 submissions. The... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the appointment of Michael Visontay as editor of the ASA’s journal Australian Author. Visontay, who takes up... Read more |
Mel Cain, associate publisher–nonfiction at HarperCollins has announced she will leave the company to move to the US. Cain, who has spent almost 18 years... Read more |
Ligare founder Richard Celarc will establish Ligare New Zealand following a move to the country this month. ‘There’s no more exciting time to be in... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced the promotion of Jenny McNear to the position of buying manager. ‘Collins Booksellers is delighted with Jenny’s appointment to the Collins... Read more |
The titles in the running for the Barbara Ramsden award for excellence in editing have been announced. The award, a joint activity of the Fellowship... Read more |
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch a localised version of the website for ‘partners’ launched recently by its US counterpart. Managing director Lou Johnson has confirmed... Read more |
The 2009 financial year was Simon & Schuster’s most successful in Australia and New Zealand since the phenomenal success of The Secret in 2007, according... Read more |
ACT Writers Centre will not be holding a Writers Festival this year. The organisation held three small-sized festivals last year, the smaller festivals replacing the... Read more |
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers weekNew Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week runs 9-14 March in Wellington. The week kicks off with the Gala... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Google Settlement: judge unable to rule on Fairness... Read more |
‘Considered from a wider book industry point of view, it was disappointing how little consideration was given to retailers, readers and authors, and how much... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Random House has licensed Blood Men and The Cleaner (Paul Cleave) to Brazil. Australian Literary Management has sold rights to... 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 |
‘I think the WBN is at risk of boring its readers, and Hachette in danger of pumping up its own tyres, as this has been... Read more |
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Jumping on the vampire bandwagon, Hourglass by Claudia Gray overtakes the three Stieg Larsson titles this week in the Bestsellers–appearing at number one, it is... Read more |
The top five books in our Most Mentioned chart all received the same number of mentions this weekend. This included two bushfire-related titles. Jane O’Connor’s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, New York, 22-24... Read more |
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