Ebooks are here at last, but there are more than a few hurdles to a thriving Australian ebook market. Eloise Keating looks at the challenges... Read more |
The administrators of REDgroup Retail Ferrier Hodgson have announced that a further 42 Angus & Robertson (A&R) stores will close down. The stores to close are: New... Read more |
Members of the Australian bookselling community have expressed outrage at comments made by federal Minister for Small Business Nick Sherry about the future of Australian... Read more |
Ingram has announced the official opening of its Australian Lightning Source operation. Ingram told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the operation, which will offer print... Read more |
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUP) has announced ‘significant changes to local pricing of all imported trade, reference, scholarly and professional books sold... Read more |
A number of Australian authors were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. In the general division of the Order of Australia, historian... Read more |
Pan Macmillan has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Alex Craig has replaced Rod Morrison as Picador publisher. The Age reported over the weekend... Read more |
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced that Larissa Edwards, currently associate publisher at Random House, will join the publisher in the newly created role of... Read more |
HarperCollins has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Spiros Kotsialos will finish in his position as digital and innovation director this week. Kotsialos, who... Read more |
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann, Bloomsbury), has won the 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. The €100,000 (approximately A$134,000) award is the most... Read more |
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the... Read more |
Dymocks Professional and Technical (Wynyard) in Sydney’s CBD will close down in August. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that the specialist store, located at 350... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have... Read more |
The organisers of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have reported higher attendance numbers at this year’s festival, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival director Lisa... Read more |
The Publisher’s Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that Sarah Ropata, senior international advisor at Creative New Zealand, has been appointed as project manager... Read more |
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced that There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby and Cassandra Allen (Walker Books) has... Read more |
HarperCollins New Zealand has signed a new publishing agreement with local film studio Weta Workship which will involve the publication of movie tie-in books. Weta... Read more |
Local business award for Shearers Bookshop Shearers Bookshop in Leichhardt, NSW has been named Business of the Year in the 2011 Inner West Local Business... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: T S Eliot tops app store author recommends... Read more |
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On Fancy Goods this week Bookseller+Publisher celebrates 90 years and Dave Martus reviews The First Fleet: The Real Story (Alan Frost, Black Inc.).
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In rights news AcquisitionsFiction—Scribe has acquired Wheatbelt (Stephen Orr), ‘set in a rural town where unsolved crimes are mounting, and history seems to be repeating... Read more |
June Kevin J Anderson, Orbit (‘Terra Incognita’ series) Sydney and Perth. Alan Bissett, Newsouth (Boyracers) Melbourne and Brisbane. Tim Bonyhady, A&U (Good Living Street) Melbourne,... Read more |
‘For the record – I’m a book lover and I don’t have an e-reader. I’m a traditionalist, but obviously part of a dying breed.’–From the... Read more |
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The London branch of Jack Morgan’s international investigation agency ‘Private’ is in the spotlight–the daughter of the agency’s most valuable client has been kidnapped and... Read more |
Craig Sherborne’s novel The Amateur Science of Love (Text) is about Colin, who dreams of escaping his parents’ New Zealand farm for a career on the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The biennial Watermark Literary Muster: 17 – 20 June The... Read more |
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Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, well-respected travel writer and war hero, has died aged 96. Fermor’s works include Travellers’ Tree (1950), The Violins of Saint-Jacques (1953),... Read more |
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