In the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher Nick Tapper takes a look at how publishers of illustrated books are experimenting with ebooks. ‘The key move,’ says... Read more |
Administrators Ferrier Hodgson announced further redundancies for the Australian companies of REDgroup Retail at the end of last week, with more than 20 head-office staff... Read more |
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Rocks in the Belly (Jon Bauer, Scribe) The Good... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premiers’ Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for book-related categories of the awards are: Christina... Read more |
In the US, judge Denny Chin has announced he has rejected the Google Book Settlement. Publishers Weekly reported that Chin had concluded that the settlement... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has confirmed that Juliet Rogers will be working with the company on a consultation basis. A&U CEO Robert Gorman told the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced its establishment as an independent foundation this week. The Foundation said in a statement that former Australian Publishers... Read more |
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has announced new funding for Creative Practices at UTS by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). UTS said in a... Read more |
HarperCollins Australia is the first local publisher to sign up with US-based NetGalley to make advance reading copies of its books available as ebooks for... Read more |
The public consultation phase of the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has ended, with the last of the stakeholder workshops completed in Melbourne this month.... Read more |
The Australian Book Review has announced that it will offer readers complete online editions of the magazine from early April. ABR deputy editor Mark Gomes... Read more |
A number of Australian and New Zealand cookbooks were honoured at the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, which were presented at the 2011 Paris Cookbook... Read more |
iPad 2 to be released in Oz, NZ this week Apple has announced that the iPad 2 will go on sale in more than 20... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Microsoft sues B&N over Nook ereader Apple sues... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, the reviewers’ top picks for the April edition of Bookseller+Publisher are revealed; Eloise Keating interviews Leslie Cannold on The Book... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s/YA–Scholastic Australia has sold Chinese translation rights to Pocket Dogs Go on Holiday (Margaret Wild & Stephen Michael King); Donald... Read more |
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and... Read more |
‘Physically I’m Willy Wonka (colourful dresser), emotionally I’m Fantastic Mr. Fox (erratic and mischievous) and mentally I’m Matilda (I like to think I have super... Read more |
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Jamie Oliver’s latest cookbook, Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Michael Joseph) based on the TV show of the same name, is top of both the bestsellers chart... Read more |
Anna Lanyon’s Fire and Song (A&U) is the story of a Sephardic Jewish family, Luis de Carvajal, his mother and his sisters, who were caught... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: NZ Book Month: 1-31 March Ten Days on the Island,... Read more |
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Lonely Planet writes:‘It is with great sadness that we report that our colleague Richard Samson passed away last Friday 18 March following a courageous battle... Read more |
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