The Tree, a film based on Judy Pascoe’s Australian novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree, is the story of an Australian family dealing... Read more
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As the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off the eighth annual edition of Bookseller+Publisher‘s guide to Australian publishing, Think Australian, is reaching publishers, agents and... Read more
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The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair gets underway today and runs through until Sunday 10 October. With close to 300,000 visitors expected and over 7500 exhibitors... Read more
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HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand have announced that they will reprint a new edition of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom (Fourth Estate) following the identification of... Read more
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The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts is considering an overhaul of the way funding is allocated to local publishers. Director of... Read more
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The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award and Judith Wright Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the... Read more
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Hardie Grant Books has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it will be recalling former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser’s new book Snouts in the... Read more
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Audiobook publisher Bolinda has announced it will join forces with ABC Commercial to produce a new range of Australian audiobook titles. The partnership, announced last... Read more
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Creative New Zealand has announced that it will support a new Translation Grant Scheme to encourage the translation of New Zealand literature into foreign languages.... Read more
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The increase in GST from 12.5% to 15%, which came into effect on 1 October in New Zealand was ‘causing problems in the book trade... Read more
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Penguin Australia has announced that is voluntarily recalling all copies of the books My First Animals: Let’s Squeak and Squawk and My First Numbers: Let’s... Read more
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The University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Sciences has announced that it will provide all first year students in 2011 with a free iPad in a... Read more
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Melbourne University Bookshop has recently launched a new online discount bookstore. Bookshop Bargains was launched last month and offers shoppers heavily discounted fiction, nonfiction and... Read more
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Retail Trade figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week show an increase of 0.3% in seasonally adjusted retail sales for August, compared... Read more
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Nielsen BookScan launches in IndiaNielsen Book has announced the launch of BookScan India. The Indian panel will release its first week’s charts on Friday 15... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Frankfurt Book Fair launches fair app Rowling tells... Read more
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On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Toni Whitmont reviews Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance (Picador), Chris Harrington reviews Ramona Koval’s Speaking Volumes: Conversations with... Read more
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In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s–On behalf of Little Hare Books, Australian Licensing Corporation (ALC) has sold rights to Chill (Carol Thompson) in the US,... Read more
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OctoberIan Britain, Text (Donald Friend Diaries)Brendan Cowell, Pan Macmillan (How It Feels)Michael Chugg, Pan Macmillan (Hey, You in the Black Shirt)Sally Dingo, Hachette (Unsung Ordinary... Read more
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‘Publishing is no longer a growth business: what we are contending with is the fact that not as many of us are needed as used... Read more
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Topping the fastest movers chart this week is Akermanis: Open Season (Jason Akermanis & Guy Smart, Hardie Grant), the memoir and behind-the-scenes story of ex-AFL... Read more
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Who is left behind when a family falls apart? Caroline Overington explores this question in her latest book I Came to Say Goodbye (Bantam), which... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: UBUD Writers and Readers Festival: 6-10 October Frankfurt Book Fair:... Read more
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Pat Cody, co-founder of the iconic ‘Cody’s Books’, has died aged 87. Cody wrote two books: the memoir Cody’s Books: The Life and Times of a... Read more
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