Submissions to the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) closed on 31 January, and will soon be made public on the website of the Department of... Read more |
The South East Asia and Pacific regional shortlist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize has been announced. The nominees for the South East Asia and... Read more |
Penguin Australia has confirmed that it has ‘taken a decision to reduce the numbers of our salespeople’. Penguin sales director Peter Blake told the Weekly... Read more |
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article Pepeyan to leave ABA, Collins Booksellers has announced that Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) training manager Lucie Pepeyan will join the... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced the appointment of Michelle Calligaro to the newly created position of digital manager. Text managing director and publisher Michael Heyward told... Read more |
Independent Sydney bookstore Zabriskie Booksellers has announced that it will close down next week. The bookstore, which is located in the former Martin Smith’s bookstore... Read more |
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that Macmillan Distributions Services (MDS) has been appointed to undertake all warehousing and distribution functions for the... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio... Read more |
A number of Australian and New Zealand titles have been selected for the 2011 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of... Read more |
Finch Publishing has announced that the judges of the Finch Memoir Prize have decided not to award a winner for 2011. The publishing house said... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature (CYL) will re-launch the Inside A Dog website in March. The website will feature new member-run... Read more |
The Reader’s Feast Writers at the Convent festival has continued to increase its year-on-year audience numbers, with audience numbers for the 2011 festival up on... Read more |
National Year of Reading 2012 patron announced Author William McInnes has been announced as the patron of the National Year of Reading 2012. Chair of the... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Borders US bankruptcy filing ‘imminent’ sales rise but... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust (Elisabeth... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Hachette Australia has sold Wildflower Hill (Kimberley Freeman) to Poland and Norway; and The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti) to... Read more |
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 House... Read more |
‘Thirty percent is a big charge. Particularly given the information you get out of Apple about your customers. To hand over 30 percent and not... Read more |
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With a number of book signings happening all over the country, Michelle Bridges’ latest weight-loss book, Losing the Last 5 Kilos (Viking) tops both the... Read more |
Ferdinand von Schirach’s book Crime (Text) is a collection of true crime stories told by one of Germany’s most prominent defence lawyers. Rhoda Janzen’s memoir... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Tools of Change, New York: 14-16 February Bayside Writing Competition:... Read more |
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Ian Abdulla, Australian native artist and author of autobiographical picture books, has died aged 63. In 1993 he wrote and illustrated As I Grew Older: The... Read more |
Children’s editor Margaret K McElderry has died, aged 98. Working as an editor for Atheneum Books she founded the Margaret K McElderry imprint in 1972,... Read more |
Dame Judith Binney, respected historian and writer, has died aged 70. Binney specialised in the history of Maori and Pakeha engagement and her book Encircled... Read more |
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