The June issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 27 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. You can read some of the highest rated titles here.... Read more |
REDgroup Retail administrators Ferrier Hodgson have confirmed that close to 40 employees at the company’s Australian distribution centre and head office were made redundant last... Read more |
Who wants to be a Billionaire? The James Packer Story by Paul Barry (A&U) is the winner of this year’s $30,000 Blake Dawson Business Literature... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has sought legal advice on behalf of a number of its members who have not been paid for speaking... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that two new awards will be presented at the 2011 ABA conference, to be held in Melbourne on 24... Read more |
Australian ebook retailer Booku has reported strong sales in its first two months, with close to 2000 ebooks sold since its launch in March. Booku... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that Chinese author Liao Yiwu has been denied permission to leave China to attend this year’s festival for ‘security... Read more |
New Zealand-born poet, printer and editor Alan Loney is the recipient of the 2011 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award, worth NZ$10,000 (approximately A$7350). Loney, who... Read more |
Google Shopping is now available to Australian consumers, following the launch of the product search engine last week. The service, which was officially launched at... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as the shortlist for children’s choice book award shortlists in the... Read more |
Children’s book author Andy Griffiths launched a new book in two Northern Territory communities as part of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s Book Buzz initiative. The book,... Read more |
Oz, NZ titles nominated for David Gemmell Legend AwardsA number of Australian and New Zealand titles have been shortlisted for the 2011 David Gemmell Legend Awards... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘The publisher is now much more than the... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Kate O’Donnell reviewsThe Dead I Know (Scot Gardner, A&U), Andrea Hanke interviews S J Watson on Before I Go to... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Scribe has licensed UK rights to Little People (Jane Sullivan) to Allen & Unwin UK for publication in the first... 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 |
‘A big chunk of the blame for why the publishing industry is as slow-moving, old-fashioned and afraid of change as it is lies at the... Read more |
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Caleb’s Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins), a novel inspired by Caleb Cheeshahteamauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, is top of the fastest movers... Read more |
Georgia Blain tells the story of up and coming playwright Freya and architect Matt, who move with their young daughter to an inner-city suburb that... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Auckland Writers & Readers Festival: 11-15 May Publishers’ Forum at... Read more |
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