The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island resident Cameron Doomadgee who in 2004 was arrested for swearing at Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, the ‘tall man’... Read more |
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has recommended the timetable for retention of territorial copyright in Australia be reduced from 30/90 days to 14/14 days... Read more |
Booksellers vented their frustration at a lack of recognition of their concerns after the Book Industry Strategy Group handed its final report to the Federal... Read more |
As reported in a special bulletin of the Weekly Book Newsletter on 8 November Google has launched its ebook operation in the Australian market. As... Read more |
Former REDgroup-owned newsagency chain Supanews has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it will operate Angus & Robertson (A&R) bricks-and-mortar bookshops in Australia. Adrian... Read more |
Ebook platform provider and online retailer Kobo is to be acquired by Japanese internet service company Rakuten. Rakuten confirmed in a statement its ‘definitive agreement’... Read more |
Walker Books has announced that distribution of its titles in Australia and New Zealand will move from TL Distribution Australia to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services... Read more |
Poet Robert Adamson is the winner of the 2011 Patrick White Award. The award, worth $18,000 and presented annually, was established by author Patrick White... Read more |
The nominations for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2012 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal have been announced. Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been nominated... Read more |
Fullers Bookshop in Tasmania has launched its ebookstore on the Booki.sh platform. The Fullers ebookstore, on its new-look website, features recommendations from individual booksellers at... Read more |
The 2012 Perth Writers Festival will be held between 23 and 26 February as part of the 2012 Perth Festival. Germaine Greer will deliver the... Read more |
A number of Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Australian... Read more |
The 2012 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference and trade exhibition will be held on 17 and 18 June 2012 in Sydney. ABA CEO Joel Becker... Read more |
The winning titles for the 2011 Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBA) have been announced. The winning titles are: Fiction Years 7-9: Now (Morris Gleitzman,... Read more |
Kobo Touch now available to order from A&R, Borders websitesKobo ereading devices are now available for pre-order from the Angus & Robertson and Borders websites,... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon announces Kindle lending library UK physical book... Read more |
‘By 2014 at least $500 million and potentially upward of $800 million in print and ebook sales could be lost from the local industry to... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Heather Dyer reviews Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U), Paula Grunseit interviews Peter Corris on Mag Dog (NewSouth), Meredith Tate reviews... Read more |
In recent rights news: Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Chinese simplified character rights and Hungarian rights to Lovesong (Alex Miller); and German rights in forthcoming... Read more |
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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Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (Macmillan), Matthew Reilly’s latest novel featuring marine captain Shane Schofield, is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the... Read more |
Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread (A&U) is set among the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to World War II... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November Pinerolo–The Children’s Book Cottage–Open... Read more |
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Sarah Watt, Australian author and filmmaker, has died aged 53. Bernadette Foley, publisher at Hachette Australia, writes: ‘Sarah Watt died on Friday morning, 4 November,... Read more |
Andrew Rooney, American 60 minutes commentator, reporter and author, has died aged 92. Rooney’s books include A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney (1981), Common Nonsense... Read more |
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