Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, director James Ivory’s The City of Your Final Destination is a film about doctoral student Omar Razaghi who... Read more
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The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG), announced by Innovation Minister Kim Carr earlier this year, has announced it is calling for submissions from industry practitioners... Read more
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Macmillan Publishers New Zealand has announced that it will close its New Zealand distribution warehouse from January 2011. The publisher will manage the New Zealand... Read more
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Victorian bookseller Readings looks set to be one of the first independent Australian ‘bricks and mortar’ booksellers to launch an ebookstore. Readings is preparing to... Read more
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Belinda Bolliger has joined Australian Standing Orders as editorial manager. Bolliger has previously worked as a publisher with Hodder Headline Australia and was formerly children’s... Read more
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is considering investigating whether David Hicks should be sued for any profits made from the sale of his autobiography. The Australian reported... Read more
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David Malouf is the first Australian author to win the Criticos Prize for his book Ransom (Random House). Malouf was awarded the prize last week in a ceremony... Read more
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Australian author Peter Carey’s latest novel Parrot and Oliver in America (Penguin) has been shortlisted in the fiction category for the 2010 National Book Award... Read more
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Sales of the titles on this year’s ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ Get Reading list increased by 260% during this year’s campaign, according to... Read more
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Melbourne Library Service has joined the growing number of Australian libraries offering ebooks. The City of Melbourne announced this week that MLS has added ebooks... Read more
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Dymocks bookstores will soon sell a new range of chocolate confectionary. Dymocks will partner with Australian confectionary company Paton’s Macadamia Plantations, which it acquired earlier this... Read more
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A new Readings bookstore will be launched at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) in Melbourne in November. The new store, which will be approximately 70sqm... Read more
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Speech Pathology Australia announced the winners of the its 2010 ‘Book of the Year’ Awards on Monday. This year’s winners in the three different age... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2010 Inky Awards was announced Tuesday 12 October. The shortlisted titles are: The Gold Inky (Australian books): Liar (Justine Larbalestier, A&U)... Read more
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Retail stores in Western Australia are suffering from state regulations that only allow stores in special precincts to trade on Sundays. The West Australian reported... Read more
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The Franchise Council of Australia and leading Australian booksellers have spoken out against the introduction of state-based franchise regulations in South Australia. Executive director of... Read more
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Ford Street Publishing has launched a new speaker’s agency. The Melbourne-based publisher of fiction for children and young adults launched Creative Net last week. The... Read more
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Random House and Pan Macmillan to partner with OverDrive Australian publishers Random House and Pan Macmillan have entered into partnerships to make their ebook titles... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Borders US launches self-publishing service Amazon barcode scanner... Read more
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This week on Fancy Goods: Matthia Dempsey’s diary from the Indigenous Literacy Project’s recent ‘field trip’ to the Kimberley, WA; we take a look at... Read more
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SalesChildren’s—Scholastic has licensed Canadian English and French language rights to You (Stephen Michael King) and Chinese rights to The Man Who Loved Boxes (Stephen Michael... 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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‘To ensure the book industry is sustainable and thrives in the digital economy, we need a plan that takes into account the needs and views... Read more
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Michael Connelly’s crime thriller The Reversal (A&U), features the teaming-up of characters from previous Connelly books–defence attorney Mickey Haller and detective Harry Bosch. It is... Read more
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It has been a huge week for book news this week. Howard Jacobson’s surprise Man Booker Prize win for The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) was the... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The 6th Annual World Matters Festival 2010: 27 October &... Read more
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Bestselling author of over 20 novels, Belva Plain, has died aged 95. Her first novel Evergreen (Doubleday) was published when she was 59 years old.
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