It is 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate... Read more |
In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher Kate Stephenson looks at the job advertisements from the Weekly Book Newsletter, discovering that while the number of positions advertised... Read more |
Twenty former Angus & Robertson (A&R) franchise stores are now trading as independent bookstores, with Leading Edge Books confirming to the Weekly Book Newsletter that... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and RR Bowker have confirmed they have ‘signed a Heads of Agreement for the migration of TitlePage to Bowker’s platform... Read more |
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced the launch of its first digital-only imprint, Momentum. The imprint, which will operate separately to Pan Macmillan, will be run... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are: Fiction Book Award Caleb’s Crossing... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winners are: Overall Joint Winner 2011 Yarning Strong... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on Friday 19 August, the winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of... Read more |
Bookstores around Australia celebrated the country’s first National Bookshop Day on Saturday 20 August, and the day was filled with fun, creative promotional events and significant increases... Read more |
REDgroup Retail administrators Ferrier Hodgson has made a Proof of Debt Register of creditors for the Australian group of companies available online. The document, which... Read more |
Red Hill Publishing has announced that it will cease its trade publishing activities. The business, owned by author and former HarperCollins publisher Sally Collings and her... Read more |
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the ‘best professional artist’ category at this year’s Hugo Awards for science-fiction, announced on 20 August at the 2011... Read more |
Economics for Life: An economist reflects on the meaning of life, money and what really matters (Ian Harper, Acorn Press) has been named the Australian... Read more |
Blood Men by Paul Cleave (Random House NZ) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction, announced on 21 August at... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement were announced in Wellington on 22 August. Dame Fiona Kidman was awarded... Read more |
The God Revolution by Keith Hill (Attar) has won the NZ$10,000 (A$7900) 2011 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award, announced in Auckland on 19 August. Mary... Read more |
Booksellers, publishers, schools, libraries and other organisations across Australia are taking part in the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 7 September 2011, as well... Read more |
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the company experienced tough conditions throughout the last financial year, but was rewarded... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it is currently ‘monitoring’ the proposed acquisition of UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository by... Read more |
News reports in Singapore this week suggest that the future of Borders stores in the country is uncertain. The Straits Times reported on 20 August... Read more |
New name for Victorian Writers’ CentreThe Victorian Writers’ Centre has announced that the organisation will be renamed Writers Victoria. The announcement follows a recent survey... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: is self-publishing too selfish? ‘freelance’ settlement dismissal could... Read more |
‘The nomination of this book, in my view, is a profound reaffirmation of the values that distinguish us from those who want to terrorise others’–Queensland... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at reviews for some of the winners in this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards including... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Politically Incorrect Parenting and Mothers Raising Sons (Nigel Latta) to the UK. Children’s—HarperCollins has sold Goodnight, Mice!... Read more |
August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne. Steve Bedwell, Rockpool (Baby Owner’s Manual) Sydney and Melbourne. Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead)... Read more |
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Now You See Her (James Patterson, Century) tops the bestsellers chart for the second week running, again followed by Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph)... Read more |
In Tom Campbell’s Fold (Bloomsbury), five friends, each in their 40s, meet monthly in each other’s houses for a ‘friendly’ game of poker. Nick Earls’... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Children’s Book Week: 20-26 August Edinburgh International Book Festival:... Read more |
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Dennis Turner, New Zealand artist and book illustrator, has died aged 86. Books illustrated by Turner included Tavern In The Town (1957) by James McNeish, The... Read more |
Paul Lockyer, veteran ABC journalist, has died aged 61 in a helicopter crash, along with camera operator John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst. Bridgitta Doyle,... Read more |
Dame Christine Cole Catley, publisher, author and journalist, has died in Auckland aged 88. Dame Catley founded the publishing company Cape Catley, in 1973, and... Read more |
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