Can it be that time of year already? Well, not quite, but Father’s Day isn’t far away. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine editor... Read more |
The 86th annual Australian Booksellers Association conference was held over three days in Brisbane, starting last Sunday. ABA conference organiser Claire Pittman reports that attendance... Read more |
Allen & Unwin sales director Chris Burgess will leave the company on 29 July to take up the position of general manager at ReadHowYouWant (RHYW).... Read more |
After more than 17 years as the executive producer of the Adelaide Writers’ Week, Rose Wight has resigned suddenly, in protest at ‘insulting and unacceptable’... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Jon Page of Pages & Pages in Mosman, Sydney, as its new president. Page takes over from Fiona... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Chris Rennie as publishing director. ‘As the current publisher of the trade, reference and language division at Lonely... Read more |
The management team of membership-based retailer Doubleday Australia has purchased the company from its former owners Bertelsmann under the entity A&WN Trust. Doubleday Australia managing... Read more |
Allen & Unwin celebrated 20 years as an independent Australian publisher with a very well-attended party in Sydney last Friday night. About 700 guests filled... Read more |
Ransom (David Malouf, Knopf) has been named the winner of this year’s ALS Gold Medal. Ransom beat The Darwin Poems (Emily Ballou, UWA Publishing); The... Read more |
Jane Higgins has won the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, for her ‘apocalyptic action novel’ The Bridge. Higgins’ novel will be... Read more |
UK-based independent publisher Quercus has announced that it is moving its Australian and New Zealand distribution from Murdoch Books to Pan Macmillan, commencing 1 January... Read more |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has announced the creation of a new award for an academic manuscript by an Indigenous... Read more |
A new website at www.love2read.org.au is now live in the lead-up to the National Year of Reading 2012. The National Year of Reading is an... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its premier design award for the best book has been renamed the Gerard Reid Award... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are: Primary schoolPrimary educational website:... Read more |
Australian author Hsu-Ming Teo, who was born in Malaysia before migrating to Australia in 1977 aged seven, has been named as one of the judges... Read more |
CAL Scribe Fiction Prize prizemoney increases to $15,000The prize money for the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize will increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in 2011. The... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Frankfurt to see ‘largest LitAg ever’ RiP Harvey... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: Matthia Dempsey on Nicholas Carr’s forthcoming look at ‘how the internet is changing the way we think, read... Read more |
In rights news this week Jenny Darling & Associates reports ‘a Danish translation sale for Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text), to Klim Forlaget’ and... Read more |
July Ayaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Joe Bennett, S&S (Hello Dubai)Isobelle Carmody,... Read more |
‘It is impossible to compete with an organisation that is prepared to lose money’–Hachette Australia managing director Malcolm Edwards, referring to online bookseller The Book... Read more |
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Stephanie Meyer’s new novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Hachette) has remained at number one on the bestseller chart for a whole month.... Read more |
Justin Cronin’s novel The Passage was among the five titles that tied for top spot in our most mentioned chart this week (also up there... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Mildura Writers’ Festival: 15-18 July SPUNC professional development session: 15... Read more |
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Award-winning Queensland-born author Jessica Anderson has died, aged 93. Anderson won the 1978 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Tirra Lirra By the River... Read more |
Hachette Australia writes:‘Hachette Australia is saddened by the death of John Mckone last Thursday. ‘John brought his retirement forward earlier this year owing to ill health. In typical John... Read more |
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