In the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine we review 21 titles due for publication in November. You can read about the ones our reviewers particularly... Read more |
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP) and the Commonwealth Short Story Competition will be re-launched in October 2011, with a... Read more |
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls will no longer participate in the country’s Nielsen BookScan panel. In a message sent to subscribers and retailers last week,... Read more |
The Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre (NRWC) has announced that it is looking for a new director for the 2012 Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF). Sarah Ma,... Read more |
US Judge Denny Chin has adopted a pre-trial schedule for the Google Books case which, if followed, will result in the case being ready for trial in mid-2012.... Read more |
‘Via Negativa, The Divine Dark’ by Robert Adamson has won this year’s Blake Poetry Prize, presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society.... Read more |
Radio National manager Michael Mason has stated that the ABC radio station’s planned changes to its Book Show program will ‘refocus the program on to... Read more |
Melbourne bookseller Readings has opened a pop-up discount store in Lygon Court, Carlton. Readings Bargains is located opposite the former Borders Carlton store and across the... Read more |
In the US, digital repository HathiTrust has announced that it has suspended its orphan works initiative indefinitely following the filing of a copyright infringement lawsuit... Read more |
Dymocks wins online retail awardDymocks has won the Online Retail (Media & Entertainment) category at the 2011 Amber Awards, presented for excellence in online services... Read more |
Among the many international news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘Amazon is nobody’s friend’ novelist leaves HarperCollins over... Read more |
‘We have made great progress as an industry in the last couple of years in working together and developing the sort of information that we... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Kate O’Donnell reviews Nanberry: Black Brother White (Jackie French, Angus & Robertson), Andrew Wilkins reviews Interferon Psalms (Luke Davies, A&U)... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to the ‘Billie B Brown’ series (Sally Rippin) and ‘The Phoenix Files’ series... 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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Kathy Reichs’ Flash and Bones (William Heinemann), the latest thriller in the ‘Temperance Brennan’ investigative series, is top of the bestsellers chart, followed by James Patterson’s... Read more |
Novelist Richard Flanagan’s collected short pieces of nonfiction called And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (Random House) received the same number of mentions as... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September Sisters in Crime, Melbourne: 22... Read more |
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