Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter has 10 copies of Cold Souls to give away. In Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti appears as a... Read more |
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Monday, next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 29 April. The deadline for classified... Read more |
There are more than 70 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand books in the May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, due to reach subscribers next... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced today. The shortlisted books are: Lovesong (Alex Miller, A&U) The Bath Fugues (Brian Castro,... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the appointment of Joel Becker as its new chief executive officer. Becker, currently director of the Victorian Writers’... Read more |
With the Bookseller reporting agent meetings are down 50%, the London Book Fair (LBF) this year is, in the words of Text Publishing’s rights manager... Read more |
As reported in last week’s Weekly Book Newsletter, Penguin has confirmed it has pulped 7000 copies of its cookbook the Pasta Bible due to a... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will hold its annual general meeting next Thursday 29 April in Sydney. The result of elections to appoint APA board members will... Read more |
New Zealand Book Month has announced the appointment of Nikki Crowther as project director for the 2010 event. Crowther, who has over 15 years’ experience... Read more |
Allen & Unwin launches UK listAllen & Unwin will publish up to 12 titles a year on its new UK list, with sales and marketing... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Nielsen sells The Bookseller Orange Prize shortlist US ‘traditional’... Read more |
This week on our Fancy Goods blog we had several comments on Tim Coronel’s article ‘Why can’t Australians buy the ebooks they want?’. We also... Read more |
April Anthony Puttee, Sid Harta (Dream Raider: A Johnny Marsh Adventure)Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books (‘Dragonkeeper’ and ‘Ramose’ series)Chris Bryett, A&U (Over The Top)Clive Small,... Read more |
‘As a bookseller, we approach book reviews very differently because for us it’s more an exercise in matchmaking and helping each reader figure out what... Read more |
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Since becoming Australia’s first MasterChef Julie Goodwin has been writing and testing recipes for her new cookbook Our Family Table (Random House), which has gained... Read more |
In So Much for That (Lionel Shriver, Fourth Estate), Shep Knacker decides to retire on a tropical island, but then his wife is diagnosed with... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Williamstown Literary Festival: 26 April-2 May 2010 Australian Publishers Association... Read more |
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The New Zealand publishing professional Gerard Reid has died. He was a director of the Book Publishers Association of NZ in the 1980s and a... Read more |
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