Subscribers to Bookseller+Publisher magazine received our April issue in early March, containing pre-publication reviews of 45 new Australian books, as well as our Shelf Talk... Read more |
Random House Australia (RHA) will release ‘a wide range of specifically Australian titles’ as ebooks in the ePub format ‘within weeks’. RHA MD Margie Seale... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Summertime (J M Coetzee,... Read more |
Shaun Tan is among the nominees for the 2010 Hugo Awards, to be announced at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. First presented... Read more |
Hachette Australia has confirmed that the new book from ‘Twilight’ creator Stephenie Meyer will be released worldwide on 5 June. The Australian release of The... Read more |
The winners of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) awards for 2009 have been announced. The Christina Stead Award for fiction went to Liar by... Read more |
The Australian Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the Australian Shadows Awards. All this year’s winning authors are female, a historic first for... Read more |
Random House has released its annual results, and while globally the company was flat, the figures show ‘substantial growth’ in Australia. Random House Australia (RHA)... Read more |
Further to last week’s story about a number of redundancies at John Wiley & Sons, Wiley has issued a clarification that the job losses will... Read more |
Dymocks has announced the results of a survey of its Booklover loyalty scheme customers, who were asked to nominate their favourite books for a ‘Top... Read more |
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Allen & Unwin have announced a national program for manuscript development for children’s fiction writers. Up to ten emerging children’s... Read more |
NZ author C K Stead has been announced as the winner of one of the world’s richest prizes for short stories, the inaugural Sunday Times... Read more |
The winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets is Derek Motion, for his poem ‘Forest Hill’. The runner-up for... Read more |
The Enemy by Davide Cali and Serge Bloch, first published in English by Melbourne-based independent publisher Wilkins Farago, has been included in the 2010 ‘list... Read more |
Spinifex Press has announced the release of a new ebook-only edition of Remember the Tarantella by Finola Moorhead, the first in a series of ebook re-issues... Read more |
The inaugural meeting of the NZ Book Trade Liaison Committee was held in Auckland last week. The Committee comprises representatives from the Publishers Association of... Read more |
Sydney-based writer Sarah Klenbort has won the Mslexia Short Story Competition, run by the UK women’s writing magazine Mslexia. Winning the top prize of £2000... Read more |
Local romance authors on RITA shortlist Two Australian authors, Elizabeth Rolls (Lord Braybrook’s Penniless Bride) and Kelly Hunter (‘Revealed: a Prince and a Pregnancy), are... Read more |
New posts on our Fancy Goods blog this week include reviews of Branda Walker’s Reading by Moonlight and Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing No.1. Visit... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘but I paid for the hardback’: the ethics... Read more |
Authors on tour in April and May include: April Nicole Alexander, Random House (The Bark Cutters) Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) Carole Wilkinson,... Read more |
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‘We are particularly committed to developing viable ebook supply channels for independent booksellers’–Random House Australia MD Margie Seale, announcing Random’s local ebook roll-out.
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When a teenage boy with Asperger’s is arrested for murder, can his family prove him innocent? Find out in Jodi Picoult’s book House Rules (Allen... Read more |
Michael Robotham’s Bleed for Me (Sphere) took out the most mentions in Media Extra this week with five citings. Kate Howarth’s Ten Hail Marys (UQP)... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Winners of Commonwealth Writers’ Prize announced 12 April 2010 Closing... Read more |
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