The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes nine reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles and a preview of the best biographies and nonfiction titles... Read more |
Andrew Wilkins reports for Bookseller+Publisher: While the world’s largest book fair opens officially for business today (Wednesday) in Frankfurt, thousands of trade visitors have already... Read more |
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy announced this year’s prize on 6 October in Stockholm.... Read more |
New Zealand publisher and book distributor Addenda Publishing has been placed into voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. The board and shareholders of the company... Read more |
Australia Post has announced a number of changes to its parcel delivery services this week, in response to what it calls ‘the internet shopping boom’.... Read more |
Island Magazine will continue to be produced in 2012 following the announcement by the Australia Council’s Literature Board that it will fund the publication in... Read more |
A survey conducted by UNSW Bookshop has found that more than 50% of students prefer to purchase printed textbooks when given the choice between printed... Read more |
Bloomsbury Publishing has launched a new digital imprint designed to resurrect out-of-print titles. The first titles from Bloomsbury Reader have been released and are available... Read more |
Wellington booksellers Ruth and John McIntyre have won this year’s Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award. The McIntyres, who have run the Children’s Bookshop in Wellington since... Read more |
Organisers report that audience figures grew by 20% at the 2011 ANZ Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival... Read more |
Australian fantasy and science-fiction magazine Aurealis has been re-launched as a free epublication. The latest issue of the magazine, Aurealis #45, has been released and... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards were announced at this year’s SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers’ Convention in Melbourne on 8... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:... Read more |
NZ country of honour website launchedA website for New Zealand’s Frankfurt country of honour project has been launched. The NZ At Frankfurt site includes information... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon launches sci-fi and horror imprint Nielsen reports... Read more |
‘It is not "privileged whining" to point out statistics relevant to gender bias in the literary world’–author Tara Moss, responding to Age arts critic Cameron... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Tim Coronel reviews The Cook (Wayne Macauley, Text), Heath Graham reviews Goliath: Leviathan Book 3 (Scott Westerfeld, illus by Keith... Read more |
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What... Read more |
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After a woman is found gruesomely murdered in a small town situated near a large military base, Major Jack Reacher is sent in undercover to find... Read more |
Charlotte Wood’s Animal People (A&U), an urban love story set over 24 hours, and Alex Miller’s Autumn Laing (A&U), a novel about love, loyalty and creativity, made... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Queensland Writers Week: 10-16 Oct Litquake 2011 – San Francisco’s... Read more |
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Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Text Publishing writes: ‘There would be no Text Publishing Company without Diana Gribble. She... Read more |
Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. University of Queensland Press writes: ‘Our staff here at University of Queensland Press... Read more |
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