Text Publishing has re-released the original cult memoir about advertising life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s. Jerry Della Femina’s From Those Wonderful Folks Who... Read more |
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be the last for 2010. The first issue of WBN for 2011 will be published on... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of book retailers and suppliers. If a representative of your store or company has not yet completed... Read more |
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Australian public holidays include: Saturday, 25 December 2010: Christmas Day Sunday, 26... Read more |
Google has entered the ebook market this week, launching its long-awaited ebookstore in the US on Monday. Product manager for Google Books Abraham Murray said... Read more |
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has announced the appointment of Sally Heath as the new editor of Meanjin. Heath, a former journalist and editor of the... Read more |
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article REDgroup annual results: ‘Promising growth’ in online sales but overall $43 million loss, the REDgroup has announced its... Read more |
REDgroup Retail has confirmed it has partnered with Monsoon Commerce Solutions to offer used books and movies among other items on its Borders.com.au website. James... Read more |
Chip Rolley will continue in the position of artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) for the next three years. The extension of Rolley’s... Read more |
Guests have been announced for the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program taking place during the Sydney Writers’ festival, which runs from 16 to 22 May... Read more |
Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr has announced that Steven Cain, chair of REDGroup Retail, has replaced former REDGroup Retail chief executive... Read more |
Suzy Wilson, owner of Riverbend Books in Brisbane, and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has been awarded the 2010 Dromkeen Librarian’s Award. Presented... Read more |
A working group has been established to review the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker told the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recently dropped the prices of more than 28,000 titles. The price drops follow a pricing review of more than 30,000... Read more |
Angus & Robertson Norwood has changed its name to Dillons Norwood Bookshop. The owners of the South Australian franchise store, Ross and Sue Dillon, have also ended... Read more |
Author Hugh Lunn and his publisher ABC Books have written to the Monthly editor Ben Naparstek ‘requesting an apology and removal’ of a review of... Read more |
CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Maree McCaskill has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that a publishing event attended by Australian and Chinese publishers last... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award and Judith Wright Prize were announced over the weekend. The 2010 ACT... Read more |
Alan Sheardown, former manager of Planet Books, has opened Crow Books, a new independent bookstore in Perth. Sheardown told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the... Read more |
The owners of The Little Bookroom have announced that they will open a second store in Melbourne in early 2011. Leesa Lambert, who owns the... Read more |
Nielsen BookScan is celebrating 10 years since it began tracking Australian book sales under the name BookTrack in December 2000. Nielsen BookScan’s Shaun Symonds told... Read more |
Port Campbell Press has announced a new commercial relationship with Warren Broom’s new ebook publishing service, Winking Billy. The publisher, which is a subsidiary of... Read more |
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients chosen to receive funding in 2011. Trustees of the foundation, including writer Helen Garner, Readings staff, and donor... Read more |
Dymocks has announced the launch of a same-day bicycle delivery service within Sydney’s CBD. The ‘Dymocks CBD Pushy Express’ will offer same-day delivery in the... Read more |
New category for WA’s Premier’s Book Awards The State Library of Western Australia has announced that a new category will be added to the Western Australian... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Barnes & Borders? pricing and DRM dominate UK... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week Andy Griffiths travels to Warburton in WA with the Indigenous Literacy Project, and Younger Sun bookshop’s Clare Hingston... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction— Fremantle Press has licensed Romanian language rights in The Edge of the World, (Marcella Polain) to Ararat s.r.l. Jenny... Read more |
DecemberGraeme Base, Penguin (The Legend Of The Golden Snail) Richard Blackburn, Zeus Publications (‘Gatekeeper’ trilogy)Kay Danes, Big Sky Publishing (Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa) Elizabeth... Read more |
‘The main driver of competition now affecting the bricks and mortar retailers is much more to do with the take-up of new technology and the... Read more |
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Topping the highest new entries chart this week are two cookbooks; Donna Hay’s Fast, Fresh, Simple (HarperCollins) is in first place followed by MasterChef Australia:... Read more |
As newspapers prepare their summer reading lists, Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (Fourth Estate) has come out on top on our most mentioned chart this week. During... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nominations are open for Stanner Award: 1 November 2010 –... Read more |
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Bert van Bedaf, whose writings made a lasting contribution to the Dutch experience in Australia, has died aged 61. Van Bedaf wrote About the Dutch,... Read more |
Betty Jean Lifton, a writer, adoptee and adoption-reform advocate, has died aged 84. Lifton was best known for a nonfiction trilogy: Twice Born: Memoirs of... Read more |
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