To coincide with the cinema release of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five packs of the... Read more |
The administrators of REDgroup Retail held the first creditors’ meetings in Melbourne and Auckland yesterday. Key points staff owed $7.8 million unsecured creditors owed $44 million... Read more |
Penguin Australia announced last week that Bob Sessions will step down as publishing director in April. Sessions, who has been with Penguin for 27 years, and head... Read more |
Australian author, illustrator and film director Shaun Tan won an Academy Award this week for his animated film The Lost Thing. Tan, and fellow director... Read more |
The New Zealand book community has begun raising money for Christchurch residents and businesses that have been affected by the earthquake in the city last... Read more |
Online book retailer Boomerang Books has launched a new ebookstore this week. Booku launched on Tuesday with more than 134,000 ebooks, including some Australian content... Read more |
Pearson Australia has informed booksellers that, effective 1 May, it will be supplying all Pearson products on a net price basis. The new pricing policy... Read more |
Random House US announced this week that it will adopt an agency pricing model for its ebook sales, becoming the last of the major US... Read more |
International publishing house Pearson has recorded 10% headline growth for the 2009-10 financial year, with a 21% increase of adjusted operating profit for the period.... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Territory Read Northern Territory Book of the Year Awards have been announced. Rod Moss received the $5000 Chief Minister’s 2011... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced that Egmont UK has acquired the rights to distribute all new titles from its imprint Little Hare Books in the... Read more |
A new Dymocks franchise will open in the north-eastern Perth suburb of Ellenbrook in March. The bookselling chain announced in a statement this week that... Read more |
The Kimberley Bookshop in Broome, Western Australia, is for sale. Bookstore owner Paul Adair told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he is selling the business,... Read more |
Western Australian writer Annamaria Weldon is the recipient of the 2010 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the 2011 Nature Conservancy Prize for Nature Writing. Weldon... Read more |
The arrangement between Fairfax Media and Allen & Unwin and the ‘Good Guide’ series was incorrectly reported in the email version of the Weekly Book... Read more |
NZ playwright awarded writers’ residency New Zealand playwright Michelanne Forster is the recipient of this year’s University of Auckland / Creative New Zealand writing residency... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: HarperCollins US limits library ebook loans Pearson ‘uncomfortable’... Read more |
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On Fancy Goods this week, view the covers shortlisted by the APA Book Design Awards and read Sue Bond’s review of Gone (Jennifer Mills, UQP).
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In rights news this week: SalesAdult–Random House has sold Simplified Character Rights to When it Rains (Maggie MacKellar) to China. Children’s/YA–Random House has sold The... Read more |
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (Boxer’s Plain) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard... Read more |
‘It is worth noting that no company has ever made an investor-attractive return by publishing printed books in Australia. All the big names have used... Read more |
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Inside WikiLeaks (Scribe), the exposé on the inside workings of notorious whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange by ex-employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg, is top... Read more |
Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website (with Tina Klopp, trans by Jefferson Chase, Scribe) topped the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: NZ Book Month: 1-31 March Paris Cookbook Fair: 3-6 March... Read more |
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Melbourne University Press writes: Melbourne University Press (MUP) regrets to announce that acclaimed Australian writer Hazel Rowley has died today after suffering a stroke last... Read more |
The co-producer of The Chronicles of Narnia, Perry Moore, has died aged 39. Moore authored the novel Hero which won the Best Novel by the US... Read more |
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