In the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, Kabita Dhara reports on four months spent immersed in the Indian publishing industry. She attended book fairs... Read more |
Apple has announced that its iPad will be released in Australia on 28 May, with prices ranging from A$629 to A$1049. The company has also... Read more |
Borders Australia has announced an ‘online price guarantee’ on its Australian online store, which it says will ensure ‘Australians will always buy books cheaper online... Read more |
Dymocks has announced it has added titles in the ebook formats DNL and ePub to its ebook range. The bookselling chain, which has offered ebooks... Read more |
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books claims to have become Australia’s first carbon-neutral online bookstore. The company has stated that ‘from May 2010, Boomerang Books will... Read more |
Nam Le’s The Boat (Penguin) has won the biennial Kathleen Mitchell Award. The award, for young Australian authors who are 29 years or less at... Read more |
Big W has become the first Australian-based discount department store to launch a major e-commerce website. The site will offer online purchasing of a wide... Read more |
HarperCollins has choosen the five winners of the HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development. Authors of the following manuscripts–potentially to become published works– will be... Read more |
In March, the Weekly Book Newsletter reported on a petition and letter signed by around 100 prominent Australian authors against China’s decision to refuse Robert... Read more |
Darwin Wordstorm Festival The 2010 Darwin Wordstorm festival kicks off today, including guests such as Tim Flannery, Germaine Greer, Wendy Harmer, Morris Gleizman. The festival runs from... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Macmillan faces World Bank ban over Sudan ‘bribery’... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Bookseller+Publisher reviewer Meredith Tate attends the Sydney launch of Beautiful Malice (Rebecca James, A&U); Katie Horner interviews Susan Maushart on... 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... Read more |
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Cookbooks are very popular in the charts this week, as can be seen from Margaret Fulton, who has been publishing cookbooks since 1968. Fulton’s name... Read more |
Three-time author Wendy James wrote an interesting article in the Australian Literary Review this week about how she felt to be overshadowed by her younger... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: 12-16 May WordStorm: Festival of... Read more |
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