Those at the recent Australian Booksellers Association annual conference may have heard about a community outreach program at Riverbend Books in Brisbane that takes the... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 27 July, REDgroup Retail administrators Ferrier Hodgson has announced that second creditors’ meetings will take place... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on 27 July, REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson will hold a ‘watershed’ creditors’ meeting in Auckland, New... Read more |
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas has announced the appointment of Michael Williams as director, replacing Chrissy Sharp. Sharp, who was appointed the... Read more |
Global payments company Visa has told the Productivity Commission that it is not in a position to collect goods and services tax (GST) revenue on... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s John Button Prize for writing on public policy has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit:... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Best First Fiction Prime Cut (Alan... Read more |
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on 29 July, the program for the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 25 August to 4 September,... Read more |
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 7 to 11 September, was released on 30 July. As previously reported by... Read more |
South Australian-based printer Griffin Press has launched a carbon calculator for book publishers to understand and make decisions about the carbon emissions generated through the... Read more |
Pan Macmillan has announced that will now accept electronic manuscript submissions between 10am and 4pm each Monday as part of its manuscript submission process. As... Read more |
The 2011 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards were announced on 27 July. New Zealand Post Book of the Year... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood Men (Paul Cleave, Random... Read more |
Department store Myer is expected to announce this week that it will offer free shipping to customers purchasing goods, including books, from its website, reports... Read more |
Kobo to release ‘Touch Edition’ ereader The Weekly Book Newsletter understands Kobo is likely to release its new Touch Edition ereader locally in September. The new edition... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Macmillan leaves many African countries Amazon sales up... Read more |
‘To some extent, we still have to rely on there being enough good will from customers who will take the effort to support the local... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Clive Tilsley reviews Spirit of Progress (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) Eloise Keating reviews Cargo (Jessica Au, Picador) and Meredith Tate... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Scribe has sold French rights to Bereft (Chris Womersley) to Éditions Albin Michel. Children’s/YA—Scholastic Australia has sold Chinese translation rights to... Read more |
August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne. Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers,... Read more |
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Go the F**k to Sleep (Adam Mansbach, Text) tops the fastest movers chart this week, while also making an appearance on the bestsellers chart in... Read more |
Former Victorian police chief commissioner Christine Nixon is receiving plenty of attention for her book Fair Cop (Victory), which promises to candidly share the public... Read more |
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: Byron Bay Writers Festival: 5-7 August The Women’s College Writers’ Festival: 6 August The... Read more |
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Joan de Hamel, children’s author, has died aged 87. She wrote Take the Long Path (1978); Hemi’s Pet (1985); The Third Eye (1987); Hideaway (1992);... Read more |
Eliseo Alberto, exiled Cuban-born author, has died aged 59. Alberto published poetry collections and novels, and won the 1998 Alfaguara International Novel Prize. His most... Read more |
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American novelist L A Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series and the Crimson Moon series, has died, aged 51.
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