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In the late 1950s an out-dated and aging magician travels the globe in search of work, forced to accept increasingly obscure engagements to get by.... Read more |
Among the top picks from the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher are Anna Funder’s debut novel All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton, September), Empire Day (Diane... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New Zealand book industry awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, were announced on 17 July at the 2011 Booksellers New Zealand Conference... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced last week that it will undertake an ‘informal review’ of the proposed acquisition of the REDgroup online... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has announced that former HarperCollins chief operating officer Jim Demetriou will join the publisher in the role of sales and marketing director at... Read more |
Independent bookselling chains Gleebooks and Fullers could begin selling ebooks as early as next month, following the news last week that the two stores have... Read more |
Australia Post has confirmed that it ‘incurs a substantial loss’ on the processing of inbound international parcels. In a submission to the Productivity Commission Retail... Read more |
The 2011 Booksellers New Zealand conference, held in Wellington on 17 and 18 July, attracted almost 130 attendees, up on 2010 figures. ‘Times are tough... Read more |
Dymocks has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that its stores in Elsternwick, Victoria, and the World Square shopping complex in Sydney, have closed down. Steve... Read more |
HarperCollins Australia has announced this week that it will be altering its ‘indent pricing structure’. HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand CEO Michael Moynahan said in... Read more |
Sydney bookseller Peter Milne has announced his retirement this week. Milne has 50 years’ experience in the Australian book trade, beginning his career with Golden... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2011 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, presented to an unpublished manuscript by an Australian... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Deadly Awards, presented to Indigenous Australians for excellence in the areas of music, sport, entertainment and community, have been announced.... Read more |
Book designers Pieta Brenton, Sarah Healey and Spencer Levine have been shortlisted for the 2011 New Zealand AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award.... Read more |
International publisher John Wiley & Sons has recorded a three percent increase in total revenues and a 20% increase in net income for the fiscal year ending... Read more |
The Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin has announced that it will offer creative writing courses in Melbourne this year. The Academy, which launched in... Read more |
Google Books status conference rescheduled for SeptemberIn the US, Judge Denny Chin has rescheduled a status conference for the Google Books Settlement for a third... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Borders US to be liquidated: 400 stores to... Read more |
‘Australia Post estimates that it will make a loss of A$1.06 per inbound international airmail packet (parcels less than 2 kilograms) on a volume of... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, we check out who to follow on Twitter during the ABA Conference, Dave Martus reviews 1835: The Founding of Melbourne... 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 |
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4 Ingredients Kids (Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients), the latest cookbook in the series, containing 270 ‘child-friendly’ recipes, tops the fastest movers chart... Read more |
James Boyce’s 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (Black Inc.) considers the illegal squatter camp that was established on the banks... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Whitsunday Writers Festival: 22-24 July 87th ABA Conference & Trade... Read more |
Sign up for The Bookseller+Publisher Newsletter–delivered free to your inbox once a fortnight. You can also follow Bookseller+Publisher online on Twitter, become a Facebook fan or... Read more |
Dame Katerina Mataira, an influential figure in the revival of the Maori language, has died in New Zealand at the age of 79. Made Dame Companion... Read more |
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