In his Unwin Trust Fellowship report Mark Richards compared the place of agents in the Australian and UK literary communities and found a perception, on... Read more
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Thorpe-Bowker, publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter, has announced that Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will be leaving the company at the end of 2011. Thorpe-Bowker has... Read more
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Reader’s Feast Bookstore will reopen in a new location in Melbourne before Christmas. Store owner Mary Dalmau told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the newly... Read more
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Sydney-based independent bookseller Pages & Pages has become the first retailer to start selling ebooks using the ReadCloud platform, following the launch of its ebookstore... Read more
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Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that publisher James Fraser will retire from the company at the end of this year. Fraser spent 25 years in... Read more
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Delia Falconer has won this year’s Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Waverley Library Award for Literature for her book Sydney (NewSouth). Falconer was presented with the... Read more
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Magabala Books has announced a partnership with the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) to publish the winners of the kuril dhagun Indigenous writing fellowships. Under the... Read more
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Book printers OPUS Group and McPherson’s Printing Group have proposed to merge and list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). The merger would involve parent... Read more
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Random House Australia has ‘a number of new digital publishing projects underway including the release and development of Story-cuts’, according to marketing and publicity director... Read more
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Melbourne bookseller Readings will open a new store at the University of Melbourne’s new neuroscience facility, the Melbourne Brain Centre, in early 2012. Readings managing... Read more
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Australian poet John Kinsella has been shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. Kinsella’s Armour (Picador) is one of 10 collections shortlisted... Read more
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The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests for next year’s Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers Week in... Read more
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The winners of the 2011 Whitley Awards, presented by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, have been announced. The Whitley Medal has been... Read more
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The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Auckland on 17 November. The winning and highly commended... Read more
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Kylie Sutcliffe is the recipient of the inaugural Andrew Mason Prize for Most Promising Editor. The annual prize is offered by the Mason Publishing Trust... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award, presented to a work of nonfiction by the Australian Human Rights Commission and sponsored by The... Read more
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Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has been nominated for the UK Literary Review‘s Bad S-x in Fiction Award for the second year running. Tsiolkas’ novel Dead Europe,... Read more
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Magabala Books honoured at regional community awardsIndigenous publisher Magabala Books was recently honoured at the 2011 Western Australian Regional and Community Achievement Awards. The publisher... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Penguin US pulls ebooks from OverDrive Penguin US... Read more
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‘We consciously decided to do something about how few [film and television] projects were being generated around our books and made it our business to... Read more
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On Bookseller+Publisher‘s Fancy Goods blog this week Andrew Rankin reviews Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific (Tim Flannery, Text); Portia Lindsay reviews Forecast: Turbulence... Read more
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In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction—Random House has sold Sandakan (Paul Ham) to the United Kingdom; and Hot Relationships (Tracey Cox) to Romania. Children’s/YA—Random House... 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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In Inheritance (Doubleday), the conclusion to Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, the fate of an entire civilization rests on the shoulders of rider Eragon and his dragon,... Read more
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All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread (A&U) appeared on the Most Mentioned list again, as... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: BookFest@Singapore 2011: 18-27 November Walkley Media Conference ‘Inventing the Future’:... Read more
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Verna Coleman, librarian and biographer, has died aged 86. Coleman’s biographies include Miles Franklin in America: Her Unkown (Brilliant) Career (1981); The Last Exquisite, about... Read more
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Fantasy novelist Anne McCaffrey, author of Restoree (1967) and the ‘Dragonriders of Pern’ series, has died aged 85. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a... Read more
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