Penguin has appointed Dan Ruffino as group digital director in charge of Penguin’s global digital strategy, based in New York. Ruffino will report to Penguin... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it has reached an agreement with the American Booksellers Association to ‘bring the IndieBound movement to Australia’. Established... Read more |
Simon & Schuster has confirmed that, as part of a ‘realignment’ of its sales team, four sales positions have been made redundant. S&S Australia managing... Read more |
Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood has been announced as the winner of the 2010 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, one of the world’s premier awards for illustration.... Read more |
Comedian and author Anh Do announced Angus & Robertson Top 100 at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre last night. The Top 100 lists Australia’s favourite books, with 101,655 votes... Read more |
Afghan-born Pakistani journalist and writer Fatima Bhutto has pulled out of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, where she was due to appear as the keynote... Read more |
Griffin Press, the Adelaide-based book-printing arm of PMP, has announced a significant new investment in equipment, reasserting its confidence in locally printed books. Griffin Press... Read more |
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced some of its line-up this year. Confirmed authors include Anne Enright, William Dalrymple, Ma Jian, Kate Adie and Dewi... Read more |
Just over a month after its NZ launch, Whitcoulls has sold out of two shipments of the Kobo ereader and is taking pre-orders on a... Read more |
Gleebooks at Dulwich Hill is opening its doors on Thursday 1 July at 5pm, followed by ‘a weekend of literary events with authors including Garth... Read more |
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the creation of a new ABR Patrons’ Fellowship program. The publication’s editor Peter Rose told the Weekly Book... Read more |
A short film produced by the New Zealand Book Council to promote books and reading has won two awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising... Read more |
HarperCollins, Hardie Grant become RHYW publisher partnersReadHowYouWant (RHYW), which produces special formats of books such as DAISY and large print, has announced that HarperCollins Australia... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Russian book fair ends in fistfights Are children’s publishers... Read more |
July Ayaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Duncan Lay, HarperCollins (The Radiant Child)Kylie... Read more |
‘How would the publishing industry change of agents switched from commission-based payment to billable hours? How would the publishing industry change if ALL publishers went... Read more |
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Australia’s obsession with weight loss still translates into sales at the register, as seen by the latest diet book to hit the shelves is The... Read more |
As expected, author Peter Temple had a great week of media coverage following his Miles Franklin win for Truth (Text). Sebastian Junger’s War (HarperCollins) and... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week Matt Oliver reviews Annabel Crabb’s Rise of the Ruddbot (Black Inc.); Scott Whitmont chats to Boyd Anderson about... Read more |
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Online Retailer Expo & Conference: 6-9 July 2010 Redmond Barry... Read more |
Norman Macrae CBE, writer and editor for the Economist, has died aged 86. He wrote The 2024 Report: A Future History of the Next 40... Read more |
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Mexican writer Carlos Monsiváis has died aged 72. Monsiváis’ best-known works include Dias de guardar and Escenas de pudor y liviandad (Frivolity and Shame Scenes).
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