While Amazon extends its global reach with its acquisition of the Book Depository, for several home-grown online booksellers, it’s the local touch that’s proving a... Read more |
Dymocks will launch a web-based publishing arm in October. To be called D Publishing, the business will allow users to upload draft manuscripts online ‘and... Read more |
Booksellers, publishers, libraries, schools and other organisations across the country will celebrate the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 7 September 2011. At the Brisbane Writers Festival... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in Brisbane on 6 September. The winning titles in the book-related categories are: Fiction... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September, with That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) winning... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape) Jamrach’s Menagerie... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 31 August. The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards were announced at an event in Sydney on 5 September. The Australian History Prize ($15,000)... Read more |
Borders Singapore has been placed under judicial management for six months, reports ChannelNewsAsia. Judicial management is a form of administration in which a court-appointed officer takes... Read more |
The 2011 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Spring Booksellers’ Weekend has been cancelled because of insufficient bookings. ABA CEO Joel Becker told the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more |
The winners of this year’s cultural awards from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Inky Awards for teenage literature has been announced. The shortlisted Australian titles for the Gold Inky are: Graffiti Moon (Cath... Read more |
The board of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine will meet in two weeks to develop a strategy to keep producing the magazine, following the decision... Read more |
Faber has announced a partnership with US distributor Perseus that will offer digital distribution services to publishers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and... Read more |
The winners for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers’ Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are... Read more |
The 10pm Question by New Zealand author Kate De Goldi (A&U / Random House NZ) has won the Young Reader’s Award in the 2011 Corine... Read more |
Screen Queensland will launch a $40,000 development package for a literary work to be adapted for film or television at the 2011 Brisbane Writers Festival... Read more |
A number of prominent Australian authors are among 59 signatories to an open letter sent to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) protesting... Read more |
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced that it will offer 20 new writers’ fellowships in 2012. In her last... Read more |
WA heARTlines festival underwayThe 2011 heARTlines festival for children’s literature and illustration in Mundaring, Western Australia, was officially launched on Friday 2 September. The biennial... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: 2000 UK bookshops have closed in the past... Read more |
‘As the Site Merchandiser for Google eBooks Australia, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to build and maintain the merchandising program across... Read more |
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On Fancy Goods this week, Eloise Keating reviews House of Sticks (Peggy Frew, Scribe) and Clare Hingston reviews The Golden Door (Emily Rodda, Scholastic).
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In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction—HarperCollins Publishers has sold A Cook’s Guide (Donna Hay) to Germany. Children’s/YA—HarperCollins Publishers has sold and You Are A Star... 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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Bloodlines (Rachael Meade, Razorbill) is the first book in the ‘Bloodlines’ teen vampire romance series, a spin-off of Penguin’s ‘Vampire Academy’ series. The protagonist is... Read more |
Kate Grenville’s new novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) is continuing to generate interest, with her book again at the top of the most mentioned chart. Joining Grenville... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ‘New Horizons for Editing and Publishing’, Australia’s National Editors biennial... Read more |
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Rod Gibson, writer, poet and performer affectionately known as the ‘Poet Lorikeet of the north coast’, has died aged 60. Gibson wrote poetry, short stories,... Read more |
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