This year’s Songs for Stories concert to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project will feature performances from Dan Sultan and his band, Megan Washington,... Read more |
Inside the September issue of Bookseller+Publisher you’ll find a round up of the local titles on offer for Christmas. You’ll also find more than 60... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier’s book awards have been announced. The awards are being presented for both years following the... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Book Award Parrot and Olivier... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for the 2010 Ned Kelly awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: True crime Crooks Like Us (Peter Doyle, Historic Houses Trust)... Read more |
Steve Jones has announced his resignation as general manager of Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia to start his own marketing and business consulting business Novel Concepts. Jones’ final... Read more |
The 2010 Get Reading campaign will launch on 25 August with ‘the most comprehensive promotional campaign ever’, says director Cheryl Akle. This year’s campaign will... Read more |
Australian-based IT and consumer electronics accessories company LASER Corporation has launched a new ebook reader, priced at $149.95. The company said ebook files and content... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Romance Book of the Year (R*BY) awards have been announced. The winners were: Long Romance: Mistletoe Magic (Sophia James, Mills... Read more |
The LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) has announced the winners of its 2010 Children’s Book Awards. The winners are: LIANZA Russell... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed its disappointment that neither major party ‘has made any substantial policy announcements in direct support of artists... Read more |
Author Mem Fox is preparing to sue Liberal MP Daiv Pisoni, reports the Australian. Fox is reported to have engaged Adelaide firm Sykes Bidsrup following... Read more |
Paper Plus Taupo and Take Note Carterton were awarded the National Store of the Year awards at the Paper Plus Group gala dinner held in... Read more |
The shortlist for the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel has been announced. The finalists are: Cut and Run (Alix Bosco, Penguin) Burial... Read more |
Losing My Religion (Tom Frame, UNSW Press) has been named the 2010 Australian Christian Book of the Year at this year’s Australian Christian Literature Awards,... Read more |
Australian children’s author Christopher Cheng has been named 2010 member of the year by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), at its... Read more |
Shearer’s wins retail awardShearer’s in Leichhardt, Sydney, has won the Outstanding Specialised Retail Business award at the Inner West Local Business Awards. New book design... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Doctorow wins DRM fight with Amazon, B&B and... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog: We speak to comedian, television host and now author Charlie Pickering about his book Impractical Jokes (A&U), Chris McDonough reviews... Read more |
In rights news this week: Fiction—Sleepers Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) The Danger Game (Kalinda Ashton) to Tindal... Read more |
August Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Jon Bauer,... Read more |
‘Simply holding a desire to be in print is not participation in the publishing industry. Readers are already reading and buying books so they are... Read more |
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After sailing around the world, Jessica Watson has been touring the bookshops of Australia signing copies of her book True Spirit (Hachette), which is number... Read more |
Ex-PM Kevin Rudd’s daughter Jessica Rudd graced the cover of the latest Good Weekend in promotion of her new novel Campaign Ruby (Text), and her... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Poetry of Science: 18 August Daylesford Words in Winter... Read more |
Elaine Koster, the publisher and literary agent who discovered Stephen King, has died aged 69. As publisher of the New American Library in the 1970s,... Read more |
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