In the June issue of Bookseller+Publisher we round up the titles due for release in the second half of the year that publishers are most... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on Monday 16 May as part of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. The Christina Stead Prize... Read more |
Lonely Planet informed staff at its Melbourne office last week that as many as 70 jobs will be lost as part of a restructure that will result in the... Read more |
Funding for the Get Reading! initiative will be cut by $1.6 million over the next four years. The funding cut outlined in the federal government’s... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced a new global supply chain partnership with printer and distributor RR Donnelley, which will involve the US-based distributor RR Donnelley establishing print on demand operations... Read more |
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern) by Alasdair McGregor has won this year’s $20,000 National Biography... Read more |
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) president and owner of Pages & Pages Booksellers Jon Page has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that he is working with... Read more |
The 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival was launched last night with a sell-out opening address from Pakistani poet and author Fatima Bhutto. Bhutto spoke on the... Read more |
Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan will travel to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and more than A$750,000 in prize... Read more |
The finalists for this year’s Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as the R*BY Awards, have been announced. The finalists are: Long Romance category:... Read more |
The 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize has been awarded to Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance (Craig... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each of the book-related categories are: $1000 Dymocks Arafura Short Story... Read more |
Local publishers release fixed-layout ebooks HarperCollins Publishers, Murdoch Books and NewSouth Books have announced the release of fixed-layout ebooks in the Apple iBookstore this week. Fixed-layout ebooks replicate... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘The inevitable disappearance of the vast majority of... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews Charlie Burr and the Three Stolen Dollars (Sally Morgan, Ambelin, Blaze & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, illus by Peter... 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 |
‘People forget the book is technology. The book itself, the printed artefact, is technology.’–Queensland Writers Centre CEO Kate Eltham discussing The Future of the Book... Read more |
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Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph), an instructional cookbook designed for the time-poor chef, is still at the top of the bestsellers chart this... Read more |
In 1665 a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. This is the story of Caleb’s Crossing (Geraldine... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers’ Festival: 16-22 May New Zealand Post Children’s Book... Read more |
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