Inside the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Peter Lyster, owner of The Pitstop Bookshop in Perth, tells us how he built up his specialist bookshop from... Read more
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Please note that due to the Australia Day public holiday next Wednesday 26 January, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 27 January.... Read more
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Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin star in the latest Coen brothers’ movie. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’ father has been shot in cold blood by the... Read more
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Today is the last day to contribute to the Weekly Book Newsletter‘s annual Post-Christmas Survey. Booksellers, you can complete the survey online here. Publishers can... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is among the retailing associations that make up the Fair Imports Alliance, which is calling for an end to the... Read more
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Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter report QLD bookstores close in face of rising flood waters; QWC, SLQ and UQP also closed, the majority of... Read more
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As the residents of South-East Queensland begin the enormous task of cleaning and rebuilding their homes and businesses following last week’s floods, the Australian literary... Read more
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Sandra Thibodeaux finished up in the role of executive officer of the Northern Territory Writers’ Centre in December 2010. Robyn McLean, who has previously worked... Read more
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The winner of the 2010 Human Rights Literature Award was announced in December 2010. The nonfiction award, which is sponsored by The Co-op Bookshop, was... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) welcomed the following new members in October 2010: Bookshop members: Angus & Robertson Castle Hills – Castle Hills, NSW Angus... Read more
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Jane Curry, owner of Jane Curry Publishing (JCP), has started in a new role as managing director of Global Publishing and Quarto Marketing Australia. Curry,... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that training manager Lucie Pepeyan will leave the association in February. ABA chief executive Joel Becker told the... Read more
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Concerns have been raised about the future of The School Magazine ahead of the completion of a restructuring of the NSW Department of Education and... Read more
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Representatives from the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and the booksellers association of New Zealand, Booksellers NZ, are currently attending a global meeting of English speaking... Read more
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New location for the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre The Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre, home to the Byron Bay Writers Festival, has moved into new offices.... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US ebook sales up 130% as paperback sales... Read more
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SalesFiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Polish rights in Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text) to Bellona. Send your rights news to bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.
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JanuaryAlison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky)Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Violent Exposure)Jane Hawking, Palgrave Macmillan (Travelling to Infinity)Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required: My... Read more
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‘If your bookshop has any genuine belief in its cultural role it will be making available exactly those books from abroad you read about in... Read more
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Awakened (P C Cast & Kristin Cast, Hachette) tops both the bestsellers chart and highest new entries chart this week, with the eighth book in... Read more
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Alan Frost gives his account of the beginnings of modern Australia in Botany Bay (Black Inc.). Frost goes beyond the conventional story of Australia as... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January –... Read more
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