There are thousands of book apps on offer in Apple’s App Store. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher, editor Andrea Hanke spoke to some Australian... Read more |
Australian authors Christos Tsiolkas and Peter Carey are on the longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The longlist of 13 titles, announced overnight in... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards were announced in Auckland on 22 July. The winners were: Gerard Reid... Read more |
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, which runs from 1 to 5 September, has been announced. E C Osondu, the 2009 winner of... Read more |
The shortlist for the $20,000 2010 John Button Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay35: Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia... Read more |
The longlist for this year’s £30,000 (A$52,000) University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. Among the titles shortlisted for the biennial prize for... Read more |
Random House Australia, as part of a worldwide Random House policy, ‘will not be entering into any new English-language business agreements with the [US] Wylie... Read more |
Dymocks Hamilton, which opened in New Zealand in 2007, has closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter it was ‘disappointing that the... Read more |
Ebooks in Australia must be consistently identified by ISBN before an ebook bestseller chart service can be created, according to Nielsen BookScan Australia spokesperson Shaun... Read more |
The books shortlisted for this year’s Galley Club Awards have been announced. Titles have been shortlisted in 17 categories, including case bound book with RRP... Read more |
Lonely Planet has announced a new distributor for its products in New Zealand. From 5 September 2010 Craig Potton Publishing will be the publisher’s exclusive... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) celebrated the launch of its Book Buzz early literacy project in the New South Wales community of Wilcannia on Tuesday... Read more |
Historian, author and University of Queensland librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt has been awarded the 2010 State Library of Queensland John Oxley Fellowship, worth $20,000. The... Read more |
iPad launches in NZ; ‘Hairy Mclary’ app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US Authors Guild on Wylie: ‘publishers have brought... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week Dani Soloman interview’s Shaun Micallef, whose novel Preincarnate is due in November (Hardie Grant); Annelise Balsamo reviews A... Read more |
In rights news this week: Nonfiction—Murdoch Books has sold North American rights to Stéphane Reynaud’s Rôtis. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed the Taiwanese rights to Shrieking Violet... Read more |
July Deborah Abela, Random House (Grimsdon) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Joe... Read more |
‘Are we comfortable with it? No. At the same time, we need to keep it in perspective […] I’m concerned about the principles involved here... Read more |
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Hawke: The Prime Minister (Blanche D’Alpuget, MUP) is number one on the highest new entries chart, after a flurry of media attenion as reported by... Read more |
A J Mackinnon secured two places in our most mentioned chart this week for The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow (Black Inc.) and, most... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA Training—Perth: 28 July National Poetry Day NZ: 30 July... Read more |
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Award-winning Australian author Jon Stephen Cleary, best known for writing The Sundowners, has died aged 92. HarperCollins writes: ‘HarperCollins is sad to report that author... Read more |
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