Juliet Rogers has stepped down from her position as CEO of Murdoch Books. Murdoch Books announced today that Rogers, who has already finished in her role, will... Read more
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The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has received ‘more than 90 submissions about the future of books in Australia’. Submissions to the group closed on... Read more
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Penguin Australia has announced that art director Deb Brash will finish in her position in February. Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions said this week that... Read more
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The Five Mile Press has announced that Poppy Grijalbo and Nick Matthews have joined the company in the roles of publisher and finance and operations... Read more
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Broome-based author Jacqueline Wright has been announced as the winner of the 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Wright received the award, which includes a $12,000 cash... Read more
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CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Joel Becker and CEO of Booksellers New Zealand Lincoln Gould have returned from visiting a number of industry conferences and... Read more
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The program for the 2011 Perth Writers Festival was launched last week. The festival, which will be held between Friday 4 March and Monday 7... Read more
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Lonely Planet has announced today that it plans to establish operations in India in the next 12 months to ‘develop local content written by Indian... Read more
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Kobo has launched a social ereading platform called Reading Life which allows users to share what they are reading through social networking sites. The international... Read more
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Independent Queensland bookstore TLC Books has created and released an iPhone application. Bookstore owner and creator of the app Tanya Caunce told the Weekly Book... Read more
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Independent Australian publishing house The GHR Press has announced that it has entered into a co-publishing agreement with Arcadia UK. The GHR Press, which was... Read more
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A group of Australian self-publishers are calling for local authors to participate with them in this year’s London Book Fair (LBF), which will take place between... Read more
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SLQ, QWC remain closed The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) and the offices of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) remain closed this week, following the... 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 delays January payments Kindle ebook sales... Read more
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On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt reviews Five Bells (Gail Jones, Vintage) and Sharon Athanasos reviews The Very Bad Book (Andy Griffiths,... Read more
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SalesFiction—Scribe has sold UK rights for Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor) to Atlantic Books. Allen & Unwin has sold Spanish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese... Read more
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February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random... Read more
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‘The question is really when, not if, most ebooks will move to the cloud’–Martin Taylor, director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum, praising the new Readings... Read more
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Robert Sutton’s Good Boss, Bad Boss (Hachette), a corporate guide book that delves into the nitty-gritty of what the best (and worst) bosses do, tops... Read more
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Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, has turned to literary nonfiction to write the memoir Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) about her... 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 to... Read more
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Former president of Booksellers NZ, Pierce Brooke Anderson, has died aged 81. Booksellers New Zealand writes: ‘Pierce was a highly regarded bookseller, firstly in Opotoki... Read more
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