In the May issue of Bookseller+Publisher Andrea Hanke interviews Mary Small, publisher of Pan Macmillan’s newly launched lifestyle imprint Plum. The first Plum title, due... Read more |
As reported by Bookseller+Publisher online yesterday, 25 Angus & Robertson (A&R) franchises have announced that they have formally terminated their franchise agreements with the REDgroup... Read more |
The administrators of REDgroup Retail have announced a further 12 Angus & Robertson stores will close. A statement from administrators Ferrier Hodson released on Thursday 31... Read more |
The 2011 Get Reading! campaign was launched in Sydney yesterday, with the release of the ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ list. This year’s campaign will... Read more |
Former Victorian Arts and Education minister Mary Delahunty has been appointed national director of Writing Australia. In a statement from the organisation this week, interim... Read more |
Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has won the top award at this year’s Tasmania Book Prizes, presented as part of the Ten Days on the Island... Read more |
The program for the 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) is now available in print and on the website (www.swf.org.au), and tickets are on sale. International... Read more |
The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper to assist interested parties in making submissions to its inquiry into the Australian retail industry. The Commission... Read more |
Australian author Bob Graham has made the shortlist for the 2011 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, which is presented each year for distinguished illustration in children’s... Read more |
Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced two Australian finalists for the 2011 RITA Awards. The authors nominated (both in the Contemporary Series Romance category)... Read more |
Remainders company TB Clarke has launched a new retail venture for consumers, AllBooks4Less. The new retail business is in addition to the company’s existing wholesale business,... Read more |
The New Zealand sales and distribution office of Hema Maps closed on 31 March. The Australian company, which produces a range of travel-related products including guidebooks,... Read more |
The NSW Society of Editors announced last week that registrations have opened for the 2011 National Editors Conference, ‘New Horizons for Editing and Publishing’. The... Read more |
The inaugural Aussie Author Month has been launched and will run until the end of April. The campaign, which is designed to support and promote... Read more |
An estimated 10,000 children and parents flocked to the inaugural Children’s Book Festival in Melbourne on Sunday, and event co-hosted by The Wheeler Centre and State... Read more |
Children’s book to raise money for Christchurch All proceeds from the sale of a new children’s book will be donated to the Red Cross to... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Shatzkin: is print now a subsidiary right? HMV... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Meredith Tate reviews The Dream of the Thylacine (Margaret Wild, illus by Ron Brooks, A&U) and the May edition of... Read more |
April Tricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing (The Map of the Soul) Sydney, Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast. Cristy Burne, Walker Books (Takeshita Demons) Perth and WA.... Read more |
‘When you ask someone to marry you in the acknowledgements page of your book, you really hope that she’ll say yes. Luckily, she did, and... Read more |
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Hazel Bannock, heir to a major global oil corporation, has a crisis on her hands when her teenage daughter Cayla is kidnapped by pirates who... Read more |
Imagine if Jesus had a rebellious, clever sister. Such is the world that author Leslie Cannold has created in her new novel The Book of... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ‘The Waterhole’ – An exhibition of original artwork by Graeme... Read more |
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Allen & Unwin writes:‘Allen & Unwin are extremely saddened by the death of Liz Lohmeyer. Liz was a truly amazing person, full of enthusiasm, boundless... Read more |
Journalist, author, and multi-award winning ABC documentary maker, Tony Barrell, has died aged 70. Tim Curnow, Literary Agent, writes:‘Born in England he started work in... Read more |
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