REDgroup Retail administrators Ferrier Hodgson announced on 27 April that a further six Angus & Robertson stores will close as part of the administration process.... Read more |
HarperCollins Publishers has announced that chief operating officer Jim Demetriou will finish in his position at the end of the week as part of a company... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced a new partnership with Dymocks, with the bookselling chain becoming a major sponsor of the event. The Dymocks... Read more |
Griffin Press has launched a new global printing collaboration with printers in Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States, which will allow simultaneous book... Read more |
A number of New Zealand bookstores are currently closed following the tornado which hit Auckland on 3 May. Whitcoulls has advised that the Whitcoulls store... Read more |
The 2011 recipients of the George Robertson Awards for distinguished service to the Australian publishing industry were announced in Melbourne on 28 April, following the... Read more |
The finalists for this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted writers in the book-related categories are: $1000 Dymocks Arafura Short Story... Read more |
2011 Calibre Prize winners announcedThe Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited have announced that the 2011 Calibre Prize will be shared by... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: is it time for ads in books?... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Max Oliver reviews Shooting Stars and Flying Fish (Nancy Knudsen, A&U), Bookseller+Publisher intern Meaghan Dew reviews Dead Reckoning (Charlaine Harris,... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Tuscan Rose (Belinda Alexandra) to the UK and US; Song of the Winns (Frances Watts) to the... Read more |
May Daniel Altman, Black Inc. (Outrageous Fortunes) Sydney. Georgia Blain, Random House (Too Close to Home) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Leslie Cannold, Text (The Book... Read more |
‘What’s not to like about a business with strong sales, an iconic brand that’s been in New Zealand for over one hundred years, a nationwide chain? It’s... Read more |
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Leading up to Mother’s Day, Donna Hay’s cookbook, A Cook’s Guide (HarperCollins), compiled from a decade’s worth of the best ‘How to cook’ columns from the... Read more |
Even though Australian author Geraldine Brooks lives in America and her fiction is increasingly about American history, her books are still as popular as ever... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Varuna Open Day: 7 May Australia Council Client meetings with... Read more |
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Neil Ryan, formerly managing director of Longman Cheshire, has died aged 81. Ray O’Farrell writes:‘If Stanley Unwin’s description of publishing as "a profession for gentlemen"... Read more |
Ernesto Sabato, the Argentine writer of El Túnel (‘The Tunnel’) has passed away in Buenos Aires, aged 99. Sebato also authored On Heroes and Tombs (1961)... Read more |
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Jean MacLeod, Britain’s oldest romantic novelist who is believed to have written around 130 novels for Mills & Boon, has died in Britain, aged 103.
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