To celebrate the paperback release this month of The Lost Mother: A Story of Artand Love by Anne Summers, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 10... Read more |
Inside the combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, Angela Meyer talks to Queensland Writers Centre CEO Kate Eltham about digital publishing, the Tools of Change... Read more |
The shortlists for 18 of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. Shortlisted and winning entries for these 18 awards were chosen... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 20 May at a special event in Sydney. The winning... Read more |
The shortlist titles for the 2010 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, for the book booksellers have most enjoyed handselling in 2009, have been announced. The... Read more |
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival wrapped up on Sunday 23 May, having begun on 15 May. It was the first festival under the artistic directorship... Read more |
Weldon Owen has announced the retirement of publisher and chief executive Sheena Coupe. Coupe, who will retire in August after 25 years with the company,... Read more |
Andrew Easton, sales and marketing manager at Bookwise for over 10 years, has launched a new distribution company, Alpa Books. Easton began Alpa Books to... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has announced the launch of an iPhone app for the three bestsellers in the ‘Underbelly’ series, written by Andrew Rule and John... Read more |
Pearson has announced the launch of ‘its first all-encompassing online learning platform for primary and secondary students and teachers’ at www.pearsonplaces.com.au. The Pearson Places website,... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were announced at an awards Ceremony in Auckland on 19 May. The winning titles... Read more |
It’s Still in My Heart, This Is My Country: The Single Noongar Claim History (John Host & Chris Owen, UWAP) has won the Margaret Medcalf... Read more |
A National Year of Reading will be officially launched in the week of 11 July, to coincide with the Australian Booksellers Association national conference, with... Read more |
A beta version of Platinum Planet, a website aimed at helping independent booksellers, is being trialed by Lonely Planet Europe and UK for booksellers in... Read more |
The recent exhibition, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond – Post Impressionism from the Musée d’Orsay, at the National Gallery of Australia,... Read more |
Mordue wins Pascall PrizeJournalist and author Mark Mordue is the winner of this year’s Pascall Prize for a critic ‘whose work over the previous 12... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK Booksellers Association announces Google Editions deal Shatzkin:... Read more |
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week–the best designed Australian books and covers of the year, as recognised in last Thursday’s Australian Publishers Association... 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 |
‘The vast majority of consumers (68%) are unlikely to or dead set against buying an ebook reader’–so finds a UK survey of readers, ‘Reading the... Read more |
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Four books in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse (Hachette), have appeared in the... Read more |
Political writer Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, has written a memoir entitled Hitch-22 (A&U), which has gained top place in our most mentioned chart this... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Emerging Writers’ Festival, 21-30 May Book Expo America, 25-27 May... Read more |
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Author and teacher James Thomas Griffin has died, aged 80. He was the author of the revisionist biography John Wren (Scribe) and a frequent contributor... Read more |
Publisher Geoffrey Robinson Chapman has died, aged 80. Born in Melbourne and later moving to London, he founded Christian publishing house Geoffrey Chapman Ltd and... Read more |
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