Thousands of school children, together with hundreds of bookshops and publishers, libraries and organisations around Australia will celebrate the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 1... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association has advised that the TitlePage Management Group charged with providing business expertise to TitlePage has recommended to the APA Board that... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) hosted a well-attended full-day seminar on ebooks yesterday in Sydney, titled ‘The Future is Now’. The day’s keynote speaker was... Read more |
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described... Read more |
REDgroup Retail, owner of Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls, has announced Rod Walker will step down from his role as executive chairman. The announcement... Read more |
Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness... Read more |
The 2010 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards, previously known as the Montana awards, have been announced. The overall winner... Read more |
Wonky Donkey (Craig Smith & Katz Cowley, Scholastic NZ) was announced as the winner of the annual Nielsen BookData New Zealand Bookseller’s Choice Award for... Read more |
The winners of the Thorpe-Bowker 2010 New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference Dinner in Auckland on Sunday 29 August.... Read more |
The winners of the Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 27 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Alex... Read more |
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Hold (UQP) has won this year’s Kate Challis RAKA Award. The $25,000 award for Indigenous creative artists is offered in a... Read more |
Allen & Unwin won all awards in the Sisters in Crime Australia’s 10th Davitt Awards for best Australian women’s crime writing, presented by Val McDermid... Read more |
Robyn Davidson has won the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work-in-progress ‘Self Portrait with Imaginary Mother’. The fellowship is awarded annually to writers in... Read more |
The longlist for the 2010 Inky Awards has been announced. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, presented by Inside a Dog, a website... Read more |
Digital printer On Demand has acquired Digital Printing Australia (DPA). Print industry journal Print 21 Online reports that DPA directors Claude Lucchesi and Kirk Peterson... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced that film rights to Toni Jordan’s Addition have been acquired by Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea. The film is set... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is one of five international literary festivals that have formed The Word Alliance (TWA). TWA was launched by Edinburgh International... Read more |
Amsterdam on ‘Guardian’ first book longlist Things We Didn’t See Coming by Australian author Steven Amsterdam (Sleepers Publishing) has been longlisted for this year’s £10,000 (A$17,000)... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Should writers pay for book reviews? ‘The digital... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Angela Meyer reviews Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), we talk to Toni Jordan about the numerous and varied book... Read more |
In rights news this week: Nonfiction—Random House has sold Hell on the Way to Heaven (Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy) to Italy, The Sixth Wave... Read more |
September Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) Christine Bongers, Random House (Henry Hoey Hobson)Steph Bowe, Text... Read more |
‘Online, our undies are hanging out for all to see’–A&U’s Elizabeth Weiss utilised the ‘undies drawer’ metaphor to try to liven up the topic of... Read more |
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Sales of bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) continue to gather steam, with the book topping the bestseller charts for the second week... Read more |
Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Beijing Book Fair: 30 August-3 September Melbourne Writers Festival: 28... Read more |
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