The University of Melbourne Book Industry Study (UMBIS), which is currently compiling its second report, says the power of internet retailers has been ranked most... Read more
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The Supreme Court of New South Wales is expected to announce a hearing date tomorrow in the legal case between REDgroup Retail administrators Ferrier Hodgson and the... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award has been awarded to G L Osborne for Come Inside (Clouds of... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Alan ‘The Red Fox’ Reid: Pressman Par Excellence (Ross Fitzgerald... Read more
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Australian authors David Malouf, Craig Silvey and Evie Wyld have been shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Malouf has been nominated for... Read more
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As reported in a special bulletin of the Weekly Book Newsletter, the shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the... Read more
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Early bird tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), which will run between 5 and 7 August. Festival organisers... Read more
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The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that its Writers on Rafts appeal has raised more than $25,000 for the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Appeal. Operations... Read more
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Speaker’s agency Show & Tell Promotions has announced on its website that it has ceased operating. Company director Bronwen Bennett told the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more
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New Collins store for SA Collins Booksellers has announced that a new Collins bookstore will open in the Adelaide suburb of Kilkenny this month. The... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Orange Prize shortlist Amazon launches cheaper, ad-supported Kindle... Read more
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On Bookseller+Publisher‘s Fancy Goods blog this week, Andrew Wilkins reviews Cate Kennedy’s forthcoming poetry collection The Taste of River Water (Scribe); and Kate O’Donnell reviews... Read more
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In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold UK rights to Release Your Worries (Cate Howell & Michele Murphy) and Under a Bombers Moon (Stephen Harris);... Read more
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April Tricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing (The Map of the Soul) Sydney, Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast . Cristy Burne, Walker Books (Takeshita Demons) Perth and... Read more
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‘We are determined no book should cross more than one ocean unless it is in a cruise liner book shop’–group chairman of freight forwarder SBS... Read more
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As the title indicates, David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel (Hamish Hamilton) remained unfinished at the time of his death. Wallace’s last... Read more
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At the top of the highest new entries chart this week is The Land of Painted Caves (Hachette), the sixth and final book in the... Read more
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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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Author and former diplomat, Denis McLean, has died in Wellington NZ, aged 80. McLean wrote The Long Pathway: Te Ara Roa, a book about walking in... Read more
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Holywood director Sidney Lumet, best known for the films Network, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men and the Al Pacino movies Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico,... Read more
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