In today’s rights news Hachette Australia reports it has sold US rights to Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman in a pre-empt. Freeman will be known... Read more |
REDgroup retail, owners of Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls, has reported that it is ‘likely to breach two out of three of its banking... Read more |
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia’s portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit... Read more |
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2010 Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The winner of each category is awarded $10,000 with another $10,000... Read more |
The International Booksellers Federation (IBF), based in Brussels, has elected Derek Dryden, owner of Sydney’s Better Read Than Dead bookstore, to the IBF Council. Dryden... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2010 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award has been announced. Booksellers throughout NZ were asked to nominate the books they... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Sue Brockhoff as head of fiction, effective immediately. Brockhoff will have responsibility ‘for the strategy and development of the... Read more |
Voting for the Australian SF (‘Ditmar’) Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday 1... Read more |
The shortlist for the Australian Christian Book of the Year (ACBoY) award has been annnounced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Australia (SPCKA). The... Read more |
After 49 years in the book trade, Dennis Flintoff, the NSW sales consultant for Pearson Library, has retired. ‘The team at Pearson would like to... Read more |
James Bennett has announced the retirement of promotions coordinator Annette Onorato. Onorato, who is retiring after more than 30 years with the company, will finish... Read more |
IPEd tenders for ‘Style Manual’The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has joined with Adelaide-based company Website Criteria and the Australian Graphic Design Association to submit... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Barnes & Noble for sale Random House: ebooks... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, we round up the winners of this year’s New Zealand Book Design Awards, meet debut novelist Jon Bauer,... Read more |
In rights news this week: Nonfiction—Hachette Australia has sold True Spirit (Jessica Watson) to the US in a pre-empt, Germany at auction and also to... Read more |
August Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe... Read more |
‘It’s not easy being a trade publisher in Australia these days […] Trade is terrible […] retailing in general is now in the worst state... Read more |
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Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) tops the fastest movers chart this week after a flurry of new awards including Book of the Year and Literary... Read more |
The Man Booker Prize longlist was a hot topic in the media this week. Most mentioned was Peter Carey’s longlisted book Parrot and Olivier in... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Educational Publishing Award winners announced: 4 August The 34th... Read more |
Film producer Elliot Kastner has died, aged 80. He adapted many novels to film including Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare, William Inge’s Bus Riley’s Back... Read more |
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