Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter has five copies of the SBS series Empire of the Word to give to five lucky readers.... Read more |
Inside the current combined May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher is the latest Junior Bookseller+Publisher, with news, reviews and interviews from the world of children’s and YA... Read more |
The Book Industry Strategy Group held its first meeting in Canberra yesterday to discuss items including an interim report on the industry prepared for the... Read more |
Mark Tanner has been appointed to the newly created position of strategic partner development manager for Google Books in Australia and New Zealand. Tanner is... Read more |
Random House Australia (RHA) has confirmed the launch of its Australian ebook list. ‘A wide selection of our local Australian ebook titles and ebook titles... Read more |
Wakefield Press has announced the launch of its ebook list. The Adelaide-based publisher has signed to provide ebooks via REDgroup Retail’s Kobo publisher and plans... Read more |
REDgroup Retail launched its Kobo ebook platform in its New Zealand Whitcoulls stores on Thursday 27 May and an Angus & Robertson launch in Australia... Read more |
The Apple iPad launched in Australia last Friday 28 May. Apple, which also launched the device in the UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain... Read more |
Sony Australia intends to make its ebook reader available in Australia later this year. Paul Colley, the company’s technology communications manager told the Age the... Read more |
Arcade Publishing’s Dale Campisi and Michael Brady report from this year’s Book Expo America:After a certain Icelandic volcano eruption kept many publishers away from the... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Richard Smart will consult for the organisation. Smart, who recently stepped down from the APA board after... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Kylie Walker as food publisher. ‘Kylie is incredibly well respected in the food industry, having most recently... Read more |
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the appointment of Alison Brook as head of publishing. In the newly created role Brook, who is joining the... Read more |
Cheryl Akle, project director for Get Reading!, will present a monthly book segment on the Channel 10 program The Circle. Akle, who encourages publishers... Read more |
Fellowship for HeissAuthor and social commentator Anita Heiss has been announced as the recipient of a two-year fellowship for literature as part of the Australia... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Keillor op-ed provokes debate Mankell detained in Israel... Read more |
Our publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall reports from the Emerging Writers Festival; Bookseller+Publisher columnist Portia Lindsay reviews The Quest for Justice (Ken Crispin, Scribe); and former... Read more |
JuneBenjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch... Read more |
‘Two Australian booksellers were in my office last week. The trauma they face is even worse than it will be here. Geography has protected Australia... Read more |
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Richelle Mead’s fifth novel in her ‘Vampire Academy’ series, Spirit Bound (Razorbill), has appeared at number one in this week’s Top 10 bestsellers chart, also... Read more |
David Mitchell has garnered himself much acclaim and many admirers since being named by Granta among its pick of the best young British novelists back... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • CAL 2010 Seminar Series – Melbourne, 2 June• Kibble... Read more |
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Award-winning Australian author Randolph Stow has died, aged 74. Penguin Australia writes:‘Penguin Books acknowledge with sadness the passing of Randolph (‘Mick’) Stow (74), one of... Read more |
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