Inside the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you’ll find a round-up of all those glorious cook books coming our way for Christmas. If you missed the... Read more |
Due to a technical error, the following story appeared on the Bookseller+Publisher website but not in last week’s Weekly Book Newsletter.Our apologies. West Australian Premier... Read more |
Bolinda has launched an audiobook download solution for libraries, with plans to offer the solution to retailers next year, and to incorporate ebook downloads in... Read more |
The late Australian author Maria Quinn has won the inaugural Norma K Hemming Award for excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, class... Read more |
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced it will implement the inaugural Queensland Writers Week (QWW) from 11 to 17 October. The week-long event will... Read more |
Online Australian bookseller Booktopia reports that it has made it onto the BRW Fast 100 list for the second year in a row. The announcement... Read more |
Publishing software and services company Publishing Technology has expanded into Australia, to service the Australian and New Zealand publishing markets. Previously represented in Australia by... Read more |
Revenue in Wiley’s Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said... Read more |
New ‘boutique publishing’ company Ace Press has launched at www.acepress.com.au. Founded by former librarian and teacher Adrienne Sallay, the company launches with five titles: two... Read more |
Borders launches FourSquare promotionBorders has launched a promotional campaign using the location-based social network Foursquare. The Borders campaign will offer a 10% discount to every... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: backlist gets a digital afterlife Highton to launch... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, the first of the election titles goes to print, B Owen Baxter reviews Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Hungarian rights to Dog Boy (Eva Hornung, Text). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold North American... Read more |
September Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan)Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Elif Batuman, Text (The... Read more |
‘My idea of hell is a website with 80,000 self-published works on it–some of which might be jewels, but, frankly, who’s got the time? What... Read more |
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Murder, mystery and mayhem seem to be the running themes dominating the top of the bestsellers chart this week with the crime novels Postcard Killers... Read more |
Vicki McAuley’s Solo (Macmillan) was number one on the most mentioned chart this week. Andrew McCauley set off from Tasmania in a sea kayak in... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The 9th Overload Poetry Festival: 10-19 September Sony ebook forum:... Read more |
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Novelist and biographer Elizabeth Jenkins has died recently, aged 104. Jenkins was a notable biographer of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb, Henry Fielding and Elizabeth... Read more |
Joan Steiner, author and illustrator of the children’s picture book series ‘Look-Alikes’ (Little, Brown), has died. Steiner used common household items to create three-dimensional scenes... Read more |
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