In the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Jose Borghino, manager–industry representation at the Australian Publishers Association, reports from the International Publishers Association Copyright Symposium in... Read more |
REDgroup retail has launched its Kobo ereader and ebooks platform at an event in Sydney this morning. The ereader, now available from the group’s Borders... Read more |
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on Monday night as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. The $10,000 Book of the Year Award went... Read more |
Manning Clark: A Life (Allen & Unwin) by Brian Matthews has won the $20,000 National Biography Award, Australia’s richest prize for biographical writing and memoir,... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has expressed its disappointment at news that funding to Austrade’s Export Market Development grants (EMDG) has been drastically cut in... Read more |
Jenny Lee of the University of Melbourne’s Publishing & Communications program has been appointed to prepare a report for the newly formed Book Industry Strategy... Read more |
Bloomsbury has announced it will form Bloomsbury Australia, launching in January 2011. To be based in Sydney, the business will be led by managing director... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival was officially opened last night with some Persian poetry and a powerful opening address from Iranian-American writer and commentator Reza Aslan... Read more |
The 2010 Darwin Wordstorm festival wrapped up on Sunday, having run from 13 May. The biennial festival, which alternates with the ‘Eye of the Storm’... Read more |
The winner of this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award is An Awkward Truth by Peter Grose (A&U). The award was announced on... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Josephine Ulrick poetry and short story prizes have been announced. The winners are: Poetry First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan... Read more |
The Australian Romance Readers Association held its annual awards dinner at Sydney?s Castlereagh Hotel on Saturday night, with historical romance writer Anna Campbell named Favourite... Read more |
Perth-based lawyer Lloyd Rayney has launched a defamation case against author Estelle Blackburn, editor Malcolm Brown and publisher Pan Macmillan Australia over a chapter in... Read more |
Despite Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper cutting its daily arts coverage, announcing last week that two long-standing arts journalists have been made redundant, the paper’s books... Read more |
Audiobook publisher Bolinda has launched Bolinda Digital, a new ‘e-audiobook’ service for both online book retailers and libraries. Bolinda Digital titles will appear on-screen in... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced further guests for the ABA national conference in July. ‘The conference will be the first place you can... Read more |
The judges for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. As previously reported in the Weekly Book Newsletter, the number of categories has increased... Read more |
A group of musicians and authors, sponsored by the Sydney Writers’ Festival and The City of Sydney performed at the Sydney Town Hall on 15... Read more |
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the shortlist for its annual ‘Book of the Year’ Awards. The shortlisted titles are: Young Children Category I Spy Dad!... Read more |
Ned Kelly award shortlists announcedThe titles nominated for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. To see the full list, go... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Nebula Award winners Hachette sales fall as Twilight... Read more |
‘For mid-tier publishers this is a big hit’–Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill on the effect of federal budget cuts to Austrade’s Export Market Development... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: B Owen Baxter reviews Killing Richard Dawson (Robin Baker, Pantera Press); Deborah Crabtree reviews Taller When Prone (Les... 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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There was little movement on the bestseller charts, for Our Family Table (Julie Goodwin, Ebury) and House Rules (Jodi Picoult, A&U) stayed at the top.... Read more |
After a couple of weeks of media coverage, Susan Maushart’s The Winter of Our Disconnect (Bantam) has reached the most mentioned spot on our chart.... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers’ Festival: 17-23 May NZ Post Children’s Book Awards... Read more |
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