Inside the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you’ll find 45 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. On our Fancy Goods blog we’ve rounded up... Read more |
Allen and Unwin has announced that executive director Paul Donovan will step down from his full-time role at the end of February 2011. Donovan, who joined... Read more |
Wiley Australia has announced that managing director Heather Linaker will be leaving the role at the end of November. ‘Heather assumed this role in September... Read more |
Digital titles could make up between 20 and 30% of the trade book market within two to five years, according to attendees at a round... Read more |
John Singleton, owner of the advertising agency Banjo, and Kevin Weldon, founder of the Macquarie Dictionary, have announced they will launch a new publishing house,... Read more |
Australia-based ebook software company DNAML has announced it will auction its domain name www.ebook.com. The company, which said it had provided ‘over 4.7 million ebook... Read more |
In New Zealand, journalist and publisher Dame Christine Cole Catley and journalist and author Steve Braunias have each been presented with a CLL Writers’ Award... Read more |
Surrender by Donna Malane is the inaugural winner of the NZSA (New Zealand Society of Authors)-Pindar Publishing Prize. Malane’s manuscript, chosen as the winner from... Read more |
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced it is developing a digital edition of the magazine to be released in 2011, in celebration of the... Read more |
Morris Gleitzman has been shortlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize for the second year in a row. Gleitzman’s novel Then was shortlisted in 2009;... Read more |
Borders cuts Kobo priceBorders Australia has announced it has dropped the price of its Kobo eReader to $179, down from $199. Harris tour cancelledHachette Australia... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US ebook sales jump another 250% in July... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Rachel Wilson talks to Monica McInerney about At Home with the Templetons (Michael Joseph), we round-up some of... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to Blossoms and Shadows (Lian Hearn, Hachette) have been sold... Read more |
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 Possessed:... Read more |
‘The frustration felt by authors not being able to access the ebooks they want to read is the same frustration felt by readers and booksellers... Read more |
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Prior to the cinema release of the The Girl Who Played with Fire adaptation, Steig Larrsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest (Quercus) and... Read more |
The Mary Smokes Boys (Transit Lounge) by local author Patrick Holland is at the top of the most mentioned chart this week. Grey’s mother dies giving... Read more |
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Kaye Keck, director of the Dromkeen Gallery, died on Tuesday 14 September, surrounded by her family. Keck was a passionate supporter of Australian children’s literature... Read more |
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann has died aged 80. The author won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for his book Exploration and Empire. His... Read more |
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