From The Miegunyah Press, publisher of the bestseller First Australians, comes the lavishly illustrated art+soul, the companion book to the prime-time ABC TV series by... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on Monday 8 November in Melbourne by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister... Read more |
Borders has begun reducing the prices on many titles in its ebooks range, in response to this week’s introduction of paid content on the Australian... Read more |
The Australian Government will not proceed with a tender process to explore options for revising and updating the Australian Government Style Manual. The Weekly Book... Read more |
The Public Lending Rights (PLR) committee has released its annual report, showing it approved annual payments of more than $8 million for the 2009-10 financial... Read more |
Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham, who will not continue in the role in 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time about her shock departure from the well-known... Read more |
Michael Cathcart is the winner of the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009. Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and... Read more |
The most pressing concern of booksellers at the 2010 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference, held last week in Sydney, was the lack of a... Read more |
The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation launched its 2010 Wall of Hands project last week to raise funds to improve the literacy of children in... Read more |
The New Edition bookshop in Fremantle has opened a second store in Northbridge, Perth. The new independent bookshop’s premises on William Street, Northbridge were formerly... Read more |
Australian author and editor Gib Wettenhall has launched em Press Publishing, a new independent Victorian publishing venture specialising in south-east Australian landscapes and their historical... Read more |
Winners of the 51st BNZ Literary Award have been announced. The Katherine Mansfield Award, New Zealand’s top short fiction prize, was presented to Wellington writer... Read more |
New Zealander David Glover is the first non-American to be elected to the board of the US-based Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). Glover is the... Read more |
Franchise owners Chris Lysaght and Taryn Hyder have opened a new Angus & Robertson in the town of Busselton, WA. Chris Lysaght told the Weekly... Read more |
The nominations for the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal have been announced. Australians among the nominations include Morris Gleitzman for Now (Viking) and Garth Nix for... Read more |
New Western Australia-based science-fiction and fantasy publisher Dragonfall Press has launched its list. The first two books to be published are The Young Magician and She... Read more |
WSFA Small Press AwardWestern Australian publishing house Twelve Planet Press has accepted the Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Siren Beat on... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘Lost Book Sales’ website launches first colour eInk... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Angela Meyer’s review of Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy (Text) is revisited, as the winner of the Fiction Award in the... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Hachette Australia has sold Chinese complex character rights to Kindling (Darren Groth). HarperCollins has sold The Prodigal Mage and The... 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 |
‘Books are way over-priced, but it’s not just books that you can get cheaper by buying online, it’s everything. If you know exactly what you... Read more |
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The Plantation (Di Morrissey, Macmillan), the fictional story of an Australian woman who ventures to Malaysia on a quest to unlock her family’s past, is... Read more |
All the hard work ex-PM John Howard is putting in to promote his memoir is paying off, as it again topped the most mentioned chart... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Branch 2010 Christmas Party: 17 November Society of... Read more |
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