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As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on Friday, the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced... Read more
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The 2010 Get Reading! campaign kicks off today. This year’s ‘50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ includes 28 books available in ebook format, as well... Read more
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Australian author Geraldine Brooks has been named the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010. Brooks’ most recent novel, People... Read more
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Monash University’s publishing unit, currently known as Monash University ePress, is set to change its business plan with the launch of Monash University Publishing on... Read more
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The feedback from the Indigenous Literacy Project’s Songs for Stories event held at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday night has been ‘absolutely fantastic’, event organiser... Read more
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The 17th annual Storylines Festival of NZ Writers and Illustrators has completed a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, reaching thousands of New Zealanders, young and... Read more
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Children’s Book Week running from 21 to 27 August, with the theme of ‘across the story bridge’, has children participating in classrooms Australia-wide. The Book... Read more
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Lagardere will open a news and books store in Canberra airport next month. The store, under the Relay brand, will be located in the airport’s... Read more
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New Zealand ebook converter MeBooks has launched at www.mebooks.co.nz. The site has been created by Jason Darwin, who told the Weekly Book Newsletter he had... Read more
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Bookshop websites dominate the ‘online retail (media and entertainment)’ category shortlist for the 2010 AMBER Awards. The websites for Booktopia, Dymocks, Fishpond and the ABC... Read more
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Australia-based children’s author Frane Lessac has been awarded the 2010 Muriel Barwell Award. The Muriel Barwell Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature is a... Read more
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Possession wins 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize Possession by Bain Attwood (MUP) has won the 175th Melbourne Anniversary Prize, a special one-time award presented at the... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK ebook price war ‘absurd’; ‘industry populated by... Read more
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On Bookseller+Publisher‘s Fancy Goods blog this week Andrea Hanke recommends some picture books for Father’s Day, Lachlan Jobbins reviews The Genesis Flaw (L A Larkin,... Read more
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In rights news this week: Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to The Phoenix Files (Chris Morphew); Simplified Chinese language rights to Zac Power... Read more
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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, Scribe... Read more
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‘We’re in effect being intellectually impoverished by the way ebook market is evolving. An American reader has more access to much more reading (listening) than... Read more
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There was a time a couple of years back when this book wouldn’t leave the top 10 bestseller charts, and now Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth... Read more
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Well, the weekend’s election result (or lack thereof) may have taken some by surprise, but it’s not exactly a shock that an election-related title topped... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Children’s Book Week: 21-27 August ABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 August ILP:... Read more
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Poet Edwin Morgan has died, aged 90. He was appointed the first Scots Makar (national poet of Scotland) in 2004 and won the Queen’s Gold... Read more
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Western Australian poet Alec Choate has died. Fremantle Press writes: ‘Alec’s first volume, Gifts Upon the Water, was published by Fremantle Press in 1978, one... Read more
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Literary critic Frank Kermode has died, aged 90.
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