What does it take to be a successful literary agent? ‘It helps to have some skills in finance, psychology, invisible mending, diplomacy, oration, negotiating, and... Read more |
Amazon has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository for an undisclosed sum. Greg Greeley, Amazon’s vice... Read more |
As reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter in a Special Bulletin on Monday, Pearson Australia has announced it has reached an agreement with REDgroup Retail... Read more |
REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson have announced that the last of the Angus & Robertson (A&R) bookstores owned by REDgroup Retail will close by the end... Read more |
Reader’s Feast bookshop in Melbourne, a company-owned REDgroup Retail store run by Mary Dalmau, is set to close in four to five weeks. Administrators Ferrier... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 1 July, PMP, parent company of book distributor Scribo, has announced it will close the business.... Read more |
The finalists for this year’s New Zealand book industry awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional... Read more |
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society Gold Medal. Scott received the medal at the opening of the... Read more |
The shortlist for the Nielsen BookData 2011 Booksellers Choice Awards has been announced. The Booksellers Choice Award recognises an Australian new release that booksellers most... Read more |
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia has been left without a major sponsor, following an announcement from Citibank that it will no... Read more |
The owners of independent bookstore Paperchain in Manuka, Canberra, have recently purchased the Bay Bookshop in Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast. Maxeme and Roger... Read more |
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has rebranded its publishing division. The publishing division of UNSW Press will now be known as NewSouth Publishing and... Read more |
Scholastic will cease funding the Dromkeen Foundation, including the National Centre for Picture Book Art, at the end of next year. Director of the Dromkeen... Read more |
Author Les Murray has apologised to Socceroos captain Lucas Neill for allegations about Neill’s leadership which appear in Murray’s new book. Reprints of Murray’s The... Read more |
The Get Reading! year-long touring program will begin this month, ahead of preparations for this year’s Get Reading! campaign which will run between 1 and... Read more |
The longlist for this year’s Inky Awards for teenage literature has been announced. Longlisted Australian titles for the Gold Inky include: Pig Boy (J C... Read more |
A number of booksellers in New Zealand have announced this week that they will not stock a book about a high-profile legal case. Paper Plus... Read more |
PM’s Lit Awards winners announced this weekThe winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced on Friday 8 July in Canberra. As... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: opinion: ‘why "world rights, one cover" is not... Read more |
‘The combination of Amazon and [the Book Depository] might actually have a claim to be Australia’s biggest bookseller: and one with no presence in the... Read more |
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On Fancy Goods this week, Eloise Keating reviews Berlin Syndrome (Melanie Joosten, Scribe), we take a look at the 2011 Inkys longlist and the PANZ... Read more |
July Tristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose’s Kiss)... Read more |
Smokin’ Seventeen (Hachette), Janet Evanovich’s latest novel in the series that follows the adventures of madcap bounty hunter ‘Stephanie Plum’, tops the highest new entries chart and... Read more |
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ‘Authoring the Author’–presented by NSW Writers’ Centre: starts 7 July.... Read more |
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Children’s author and former senior journalist with The Australian, Louise Schofield, has died. Schofield was the author of 10 books including Secrets in the Tingle... Read more |
Tom Kruse, a legend throughout Central Australia as the famed mailman of the Birdsville Track, has died aged 96. Kristin Weidenbach wrote about his life... Read more |
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