How is digital changing the way publishers work? According to Pan Macmillan’s head of digital publishing Victoria Nash, integrating digital publishing with traditional publishing processes... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced further details about the company’s recent restructure, including a number of key staff appointments. The publisher said in a statement this week... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival recorded its ‘second-largest SWF box office take ever’ in 2011, according to festival publicist Emma Noble. ‘We hit our box office... Read more |
Andrea Hanke reports from this year’s VIP program industry forum: Digital was a popular topic at the Australia Council sponsored Visiting International Publishing (VIP) forum,... Read more |
Jane Morrow was announced as the recipient of the 2011/12 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 19 May. The fellowship, which was... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on 19 May as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. The... Read more |
A Man Melting by New Zealand writer Craig Cliff (Random House NZ) is the winner of the £5,000 (approximately A$7630) best first book category of this year’s Commonwealth... Read more |
Books produced by the University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre (CBC) are now available through international retailers including Amazon and The Book Depository as a... Read more |
Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic at the Australian, has won this year’s Pascall Prize. The annual $15,000 Pascall Prize is awarded to ‘a critic whose... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for women writers have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The winners are: Children’s fiction (told primarily through words)‘The Keepers’ series (Lian Tanner, A&U) Children’s fiction... Read more |
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, was officially launched at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 22 May. The winners... Read more |
A record number of people attended this year’s Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, with attendance figures up by more than 20% on 2010 figures. More... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Childrens’ Book Awards were announced at an awards ceremony in Auckland on 18 May. The NZ Post... Read more |
Bob Graham and Christobel Mattingley have been nominated as the Australian candidates for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The winner of the 2012 awards... Read more |
A number of Australians have been shortlisted for the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Zombies vs... Read more |
New Zealand author Peter Wells has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship. Wells will use the NZ$100,000... Read more |
More than 170,000 children register for National Simultaneous Storytime More than 170,000 children registered to participate in the annual National Simultaneous Storytime, hosted by the Australian Library and... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kirschbaum appointed to head Amazon’s NY publishing arm... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Cassandra Clare, author of ‘The Mortal Instruments’ series (Walker Books), answers a few questions, as does Fatima Bhutto, author of... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Random House has sold Who Sings for Lu (Alan Duff) to France. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Turkish translation rights to... 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 |
‘Have just ploughed through five novels in a row by male Australian writers, each single one of which seemed to involve a man with thin... Read more |
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The Throne of Fire (Rick Riordan, Puffin), Book 2 of ‘The Kane Chronicles’, is top of the fastest movers chart followed by Water for Elephants... Read more |
Part one of the TV mini-series dramatisation of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet (Penguin) screened on pay-TV channel Showtime on Sunday and became a recurring theme in... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Bayside Literary Festival: 20-27 May 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards,... Read more |
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Bob Gould, long-standing Sydney bookseller and political activist, has died aged 74. Joel Becker, Australian Booksellers Association, writes: Vale Bob Gould‘I was saddened to hear... Read more |
Neuropsychologist Dr Maureen P Molloy, an Australian pioneer in cognitive rehabilitation and a brain injury expert, has died aged 85. Molloy wrote Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Recovery... Read more |
Radical feminist writer and academic, Joanna Russ, best known for her feminist science-fiction classic The Female Man (1975), has died aged 74. Russ won several... Read more |
Larry Matthews, an author and artist who owned and ran {lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery in Dunedin, NZ, has died aged 50. Matthews’ writing appeared... Read more |
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