Inside the Term 3 issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher, you’ll find 14 reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in September to November, as well as... Read more |
Further to its announcement that it was ‘monitoring’ the proposed acquisition of the UK-based online book retailer the Book Depository by Amazon, the Australian Competition and... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 Age Book of the Year awards were announced on 25 August at the opening keynote address of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible... Read more |
The shortlisted titles for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories, each worth $15,000,... Read more |
There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley (NewSouth) has won this year’s John Button Prize for public policy writing.... Read more |
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning... Read more |
Vision Australia has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it has ceased production of new audiobook titles. Vision Australia audio publishing sales and marketing... Read more |
Arts Tasmania has discontinued its funding of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine. Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings, who is also the state’s Arts Minister, announced the... Read more |
National writing organisation Writing Australia has officially launched its program, with details about a new award for unpublished manuscripts, a national conference, and an author... Read more |
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 25 August. The winning titles are: Gerard Reid Award for... Read more |
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that it will introduce ‘significant changes to the pricing of all imported books’. The publisher said in... Read more |
Bookshops, schools and libraries around Australia celebrated Children’s Book Week, which wrapped up on the weekend, having run from 20 to 26 August. Organised by... Read more |
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) may be coming to Brisbane. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival hoped to run... Read more |
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa and how it led to the Settlement of Australia by Emma Christopher (A&U) and A... Read more |
The winners of the 24th Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. The winner of the main prize, worth $1000, is Diary... Read more |
PMP, parent company of closing book distribution business The Scribo Group and printer Griffin Press, has recorded a net loss of $11.3 million for the... Read more |
A Centre for the Book will be established at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, reports Beattie’s Book Blog. The University will join... Read more |
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year’s Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Monbiot: academic publishing is ‘pure rentier capitalism’ and... Read more |
‘Murdoch pays his journalists and editors, and his companies generate much of the content they use. But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Fiona Stager reviews Sarah Thornhill (Kate Grenville, Text), David Gaunt reviews All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton) and... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK, US, Canadian and German rights to Shift (Em Bailey); six further titles in the... Read more |
September Diane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the... Read more |
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One Day (David Nicholls, Hachette), a novel about friendship and love spanning two decades, now adapted to film, is at the top of the fastest... Read more |
It wasn’t just the stories about the Melbourne Writers Festival that placed Kate Grenville’s novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) at the top of our most mentioned... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Melbourne Writers Festival: 26 Aug – 4 Sept September Ballarat... Read more |
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Romance writer Sandra Hyde (published as Sandra Hyatt), has died in Auckland aged 46. Hyde was attending the Romance Writers New Zealand (RWNZ) conference, when... Read more |
William Bridson Green, novelist and writer of screenplays and theatre pieces, has died aged 71. Green helped found the creative writing course at RMIT, where he... Read more |
James Sangster British screenwriter best known for screenwriting the 1950s classic horror films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), and The Mummy... Read more |
Samuel Menashe, American poet and recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Neglected Masters Award, has died aged 86. Menashe’s books include No Jerusalem But This (1971),... Read more |
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