Sales reps are one of the critical links between booksellers and publishers. In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Eloise Keating looks at how this... Read more |
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape). Barnes, who was the bookies’ favourite... Read more |
Andrew Wilkins reports: As the stands were being dismantled in Hall 8 last Sunday afternoon and German shoppers starting to swarm in search of last-minute... Read more |
Three Australian authors and two New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest prize for children’s and... Read more |
The longlist for the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced on 17 October. The longlisted titles are: Abandoned: The Sad Death of... Read more |
Penguin Australia has announced that it will stop producing new titles in the Aussie Bites and Aussie Chomps series after 2012. Penguin children’s books publisher... Read more |
Visual arts publisher Phaidon Press has announced that it will reduce the Australian and New Zealand prices of ‘the majority’ of its list. Phaidon sales... Read more |
Music distributor Fuse Group Australia has entered into the local book distribution market, taking on a number of international publishers. Fuse Group represents Taschen Books,... Read more |
Sisters in Crime Australia celebrated its 20th anniversary at the 2011 SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers’ Convention, held in Melbourne between 7 and 9 October.... Read more |
The National Year of Reading 2012 initiative has announced a shortlist of titles in each Australian state and territory that will be voted on in... Read more |
The winners of the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia ‘Book of the Year’ Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are:... Read more |
Mark Tredinnick has won first place in this year’s Newcastle Poetry Prize, presented in September. Tredinnick’s poem ‘The Wombat Vedas’ was selected from a shortlist... Read more |
Overdrive, distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries, has announced it will soon launch ‘WIN catalogs’ in the US. The catalogue will feature longtail collections of... Read more |
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize winners announcedCarrie Tiffany and Gregory Day are the joint winners of the 2011 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Pan Mac team with Curtis Brown for digital... Read more |
‘All other things being equal, I can see a global ebook marketplace that some years from now is 90-95% controlled by Amazon, Apple, Kobo, and... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Marion Rankine reviews Autumn Laing (Alex Miller, A&U), Margaret Hamilton reviews... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—HarperCollins Publishers has sold The Wounded Guardian (Duncan Lay, Voyager) to Germany. Nonfiction—HarperCollins Publishers has sold Gods and Diseases: Making... 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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The love between schoolgirl Nora and fallen angel Patch has transcended the boundary between heaven and earth. After overcoming the secrets of Patch’s dark past... Read more |
Eighty-five-year-old Autumn Laing is moved to write about her affair with Australian artist Patrick Donlon and the near-catastrophic effects their relationship had on those closest... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nelson Arts Festival, NZ: 7-24 Oct ‘The Writer’s Journey: Mythic... Read more |
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