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Thanks to Murdoch Books, we have five copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo DVD to give away this week. To be in the draw... Read more |
REDgroup Retail has announced the resignation of chief executive Dave Fenlon. Fenlon, who joined Angus & Robertson as general manager in January 2006 and became group managing director... Read more |
Chris Burgess has announced he has been appointed to the role of manager, iBooks Australia and New Zealand for Apple. Burgess, who has been in... Read more |
After only offering free out-of-copyright titles to Australian customers since May, the Australian Apple iBookstore launched with local paid content yesterday. Among the first group... Read more |
REDgroup Retail, the owner of Angus & Robertson, Whitcoulls in NZ and Borders Asia Pacific, has announced its preliminary 2009-10 full-year results (for the year... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced on Monday, 8 November. Prime Minister Julia Gillard will present the awards... Read more |
Hachette Australia has announced that its ebooks will be among those available on the Apple iBookstore Australia, which launched its first paid local content yesterday,... Read more |
Amy Tipper has recently been appointed as senior vendor manager in the Kindle team at Amazon UK. Tipper will be responsible for managing the relationships... Read more |
The winners of this year’s NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced. Winning titles were announced in the following categories: The General History Prize: Settler... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has announced that creative writing courses will be taught at a Faber Academy in Sydney from March 2011. The publisher will partner... Read more |
The guest list for the 2011 Perth Writers Festival has been announced. International authors to attend the festival include: Tariq Ali (The Obama Syndrome, Night... Read more |
Australian booksellers are among a growing number of Australian retailers who are calling on the federal government to reform the rules guiding the application of... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature, also known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Vital Signs: Stories... Read more |
Former bookseller Steve Jones has joined the marketing department at Pan Macmillan Australia. Jones, who started in the new position this week, left his position... Read more |
Sarah Foster is the recipient of the 2010 Lady Cutler Award. Foster is the founder, managing director and publisher of children’s book publisher Walker Books... Read more |
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter story Readings to launch pilot ebookstore with Inventive Labs platform, the Weekly Book Newsletter now understands that the pilot... Read more |
Australian author Cristos Tsiolkas has been shortlisted in the International Author of the Year category in the UK’s Galaxy National Book Awards. Tsiolkas has been... Read more |
The shortlist for the inaugural Copyright Licensing Ltd Educational Publishing Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing... Read more |
Professor Tim Flannery is the first Australian to win the Joseph Leidy Award. The world-renowned scientist and author of The Weather Makers (Text) and Here... Read more |
Roz Hopkins and Tegan Morrison have joined HarperCollins as associate publishers. Hopkins will take on the role of associate publisher – nonfiction. Hopkins has previously... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Book Fearless (Colin Thompson & Sarah Davis,... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Australian Food Media Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Simon Johnson Award for Best Food Related Book Category... Read more |
Changes announced for the 2011 Indie Awards Leading Edge Books has announced a number of changes to the next Indie Book Award. Independent bookshops who are... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon.co.uk introduces agency pricing with Hachette, HarperCollins and... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Bookseller+Publisher publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall interviews Shaun Micallef about his novel Preincarnate (Hardie Grant), Andrew Wilkins reviews Dorothy Porter’s Love... Read more |
In rights new this week: Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap to the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey and... Read more |
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If... Read more |
‘There are some publishers that have been chasing the iBooks Store in Australia, waiting for some indication of when they would be approached and that... Read more |
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Crescendo (Simon & Schuster), Becca Fitzpatrick’s sequel to New York Times bestseller Hush Hush, is top of the highest new entries chart this week, followed... Read more |
Comedian Shaun Micallef’s new book Preincarnate (Hardie Grant), the comic story about time travel, cloning, space ships, and the Loch Ness monster, has made the top spot... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The annual Australian Campus Booksellers Association conference: 3-5 November Emerging... Read more |
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Harry Mulisch, the Dutch writer best known for his book, The Assault (1982), has died aged 83.
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Eva Ibbotson, the children’s author, has died aged 85. She wrote magical comedies such as Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13.
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Professor Bill Kent, the distinguished Australian scholar of Renaissance Italy and founder-director of the Monash University Prato Centre, has died aged 68. In 2004 he... Read more |
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