With thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 10 double-passes to New York, I Love You to give away. Says Madman: ‘New York,... Read more |
The combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes a report from Scholastic rights manager Claire Pretyman on the publishing climate and trends apparent at this year’s... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin last week, at the Australian Publishers Association (APA) AGM, held in Sydney on Thursday 29 April, Stephen... Read more |
James Fraser, publishing director at Pan Macmillan Australia, has announced he is stepping down from the role and handing over to his deputy Cate Paterson.... Read more |
Scribe Publishing has announced the launch of its ebooks list. The publisher has launched its list with new-release titles I Say Tomato (Katie Wall), The... Read more |
Dymocks has announced it has acquired the chocolate and nut confectioner Paton’s Macadamias. The acquisition follows the bookselling chain’s purchase, last year, of the sandwich... Read more |
Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood has been shortlisted for this year’s CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for ‘distinguished illustration in a book for children’ for Harry and... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s $20,000 National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a record 62 entries, are: Andrew Fisher: Prime... Read more |
Following the Australian Publishers Association AGM in Sydney on Thursday 29 April, this year’s recipients of the George Robertson Awards for distinguished service to the... Read more |
The University of Melbourne Book Industry Study (UMBIS) is now beginning its second online survey of publishing activity and expectations. Book publishers are encouraged to... Read more |
The Booksellers New Zealand annual conference will be held in Auckland on Sunday 29 August. The event follows the New Zealand Post Book Awards, to... Read more |
An initiative of the Australia Council, the newly launched website www.litmags.com.au brings together details about 10 Australian literary magazines. The titles featured on the website,... Read more |
The winners of the Le Cordon Bleu World Food Awards were announced on Monday 2 May at a gala presentation evening in Adelaide. Sixty judges... Read more |
This year marks the 20 anniversary of the Writers at Stanton program, a partnership between Stanton Library and Constant Reader Bookshop in the North Sydney... Read more |
Anthony Lawrence, author of Bark (UQP), has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Poetry Prize of $4000 for his poem ‘Domestic Emergencies’. Five shortlisted poems... Read more |
The 2010 Back to Booktown event attracted 15,000 visitors and 60 booksellers to the small town of Clunes, Victoria, over the weekend of 1 and... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards has been announced. Shortlisted titles are: Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best... Read more |
Indigenous Literacy Project ‘Songs for Stories’ benefit concert at SWFThe Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), in conjunction with The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), will host a... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Mieville wins Clarke Award for third time Amazon... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week we introduced the new editor of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Andrea Hanke via this book questionnaire; Tim Coronel wrote about last week’s... Read more |
May John Connolly, Hachette (The Whisperers)Neil Cross, S&S (Captured) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson,... Read more |
‘While there’s no clear way forward, we’ve come to the conclusion that we know as little about it as anyone else does, so we might... Read more |
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The return of the television series Masterchef seems to be helping Our Family Table (Random House), the cookbook by series one-winner Julie Goodwin; Goodwin’s book... Read more |
Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi (Canongate) has just published a new book Beatrice and Virgil (Text),... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Rhythm of the Wild: 7-8 May 2010 PANZ workshop–Upskilling Opportunity... Read more |
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