After an impressive response to this giveaway last fortnight (maybe not so surprising, given our audience), and thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more |
In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher, New Frontier managing director Peter Whitfield questions the Australian Publishers Association’s commitment to helping self-publishers at overseas book fairs.... Read more |
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced it has more than 300 ebook titles live on Amazon’s Kindle store. Pan Macmillan digital sales and marketing spokesperson Melissa... Read more |
New Zealand author Kate De Goldi has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship. De Goldi, whose most recent novel The... Read more |
Among those acknowledged in this years’ Queen’s Birthday Honours List were several figures associated with the book industry in Australia. Leonard (Len) Woodley received a... Read more |
REDgroup has launched its Kobo ereader in Angus & Robertson stores, and added the Kobo platform to the chain’s revamped website. REDgroup communications manager Malcolm... Read more |
The Victorian Writers’ Centre (VWC) has appointed Roderick Poole as its new director and CEO. Poole, who has a background in arts management as the founding... Read more |
Former Allen & Unwin editor and winner of the 2009 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship Alexandra Nahlous has been appointed commissioning editor, fiction, at Pan Macmillan.... Read more |
Parragon Publishing has signed a joint venture agreement with two Chinese publishers to start a new Chinese publishing company that will produce and distribute local-language titles throughout... Read more |
Ebookant.com is a new Australian-based website that offers consumers price comparisons on over 270,000 ebook titles (and 60,000 e-magazines, 5000 e-textbooks and 50,000 e-chapters). The site was created by... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. This year’s award has been jointly won by Something About... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that comedian Corinne Grant has been confirmed for the Welcome Dinner and Debate on 11 July during this... Read more |
National Library of Australia makes free ebook downloads availableThe National Library of Australia (NLA) has made ebooks of out of print titles from the library’s collection... Read more |
Among the many international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kingsolver wins Orange Prize Davidar departure reveals... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Carly Been reviews Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe), Eliza Metcalfe reviews forthcoming short story anthology Wordlines (selected by... Read more |
June Benjamin 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,... Read more |
‘Australian operations, at one level or another, are being folded into larger, more global configurations. […] in a real sense we’re seeing a neo-colonisation of the... Read more |
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It’s all about the vampires in the bestseller charts this week. Teen readers are buying Twilight spinoff The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Stephenie... Read more |
Alan ‘The Red Fox’ Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s and became one of Australia’s most influential political journalists. Ross Fitzgerald... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA Training–Brisbane: 14-17 June CAL 2010 seminar series–Perth: 17 June... Read more |
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Financial director at New Holland Publishers Phillip Shaw has died, aged 66. Former New Holland Publishers colleagues wrote: ‘Phillip Shaw was a sincere and much... Read more |
Judy Wheeler, co-owner of New Edition bookshop in Fremantle WA, has died. Fremantle Press writes: ‘Fremantle Press extends its condolences to Judy’s family. Judy, and... Read more |
Journalist, science writer Martin Gardner has died, aged 95. He is known for publishing 60 puzzle books and The Annotated Alice (Lewis Carroll & Martin... Read more |
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