In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher Andrew Rankin takes a look at the best biographies, memoirs and nonfiction titles on offer for Christmas 2011. To... Read more
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Sydney-based independent bookseller Pages & Pages will be the first retailer to start selling ebooks using the ReadCloud platform, with its ebookstore due to go... Read more
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Chair of the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) Barry Jones will officially hand over the group’s final report to Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and... Read more
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the UK Office of Fair trading (OFT) have declared that they will not oppose Amazon’s proposed acquisition... Read more
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Ramona Koval, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Book Show, has left the ABC. Koval’s departure comes after Radio National’s planned changes to its Book Show... Read more
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Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis has told CBC News that his company will offer a publishing arm. ‘It’s part of the new market and if you... Read more
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Reader’s Feast is likely to re-open in Melbourne in late November. On Twitter and Facebook the bookstore, which operated from the corner of Bourke and... Read more
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Melbourne-based specialist bookshop Books for Cooks has launched its ebookstore on the Booki.sh platform. The Books for Cooks ebookstore is linked to the retailer’s existing... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that exports and events manager Kathy Fulcher has finished in her position. Maree McCaskill, CEO of the APA, told... Read more
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Discount-focussed bookselling chain AllBooks4Less has announced the appointment of David Bolitho to the position of CEO. Bolitho will be responsible for ‘both the retail casual... Read more
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The University of Melbourne has called for tenders from specialist book retailers to take over the operation of the Melbourne University Bookshop. In an email... Read more
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The 2011 Australian Campus Booksellers Association tertiary supplier of the year awards were announced at the ACBA conference on Thursday 27 October in Melbourne. John... Read more
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The winners of the 2011 World Fantasy Awards were announced during the World Fantasy Convention, held in San Diego from 27 to 30 October. Among... Read more
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Online Australian bookseller Booktopia has been included in the BRW (Business Review Weekly) Fast 100 list for the third consecutive year. The bookseller was named in... Read more
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Lonely Planet has launched its Shared Publishing Platform, which allows for faster production of guidebooks. The platform, which began development two years ago, allows authors... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:... Read more
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The longlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Award was announced on 29 October at this year’s Singapore Writers Festival. The longlisted titles are: The... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children’s choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winning... Read more
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The Australian and New Zealand nominees for the 2012 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List have been announced. The Australian... Read more
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The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has released details about its 2012 School Days program, to be held between 21 and 25 May 2012. Among the authors... Read more
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Kobo devices available for order from CollinsKobo devices are now available to order online from Collins Booksellers. The bookseller will sell the Kobo Wireless Ereader... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: BookScan analyses the ‘Booker bump’ WSJ to launch... Read more
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‘Barriers to entry into the online retail supply of books were relatively low with the availability of third party sales platforms such as Amazon marketplace... Read more
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On Fancy Goods this week, Portia Lindsay reviews Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed (Sleepers Publishing), Andrea Hanke talks to Di Morrisey about writing 20... Read more
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In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Text Publishing has sold Canadian rights in The Cook (Wayne Macauley) to Penguin Canada; and UK rights in Me and Mr... Read more
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November John Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth. Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and... Read more
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Julian Barnes’ short novel, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape), winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, is at the top of... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November Waiheke Book Festival: 4-6... Read more
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Czech writer and diplomat Jiri Grusa, former head of the PEN International writers’ organisation, has died aged 72. Grusa wrote Mimner in 1969 and The... Read more
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