In the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher we review 37 forthcoming Australian titles, including those by established authors Peter Carey (The Chemistry of Tears, Hamish Hamilton,... Read more |
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 2 December. A full list will appear in... Read more |
The winner of the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book is King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya (Russell Skelton, A&U). Skelton’s book beat shortlisted... Read more |
Charlotte Harper writes: Some 600,000 iPads have been sold in Australia and Amazon’s Kindle may have already gained a 60% share of the ereader market... Read more |
Two former Angus & Robertson (A&R) franchise stores in Sydney’s south west are now operating as independent bookstores under the name Your Bookshop. The owners... Read more |
Poet Robert Gray is the recipient of this year’s Australia Council for the Arts’ Writers’ Emeritus Award. Gray, who released his first collection of poetry... Read more |
Galley Cat reports that Molly Barton will replace Dan Ruffino as Penguin’s Global Digital Director. Ruffino, who was appointed to the New York-based position in... Read more |
National writing organisation Writing Australia has announced that Hannah Kent is the winner of the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Kent, who is deputy... Read more |
Author Emily Perkins and illustrator David Elliot are among the winners of the inaugural Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards, presented at a ceremony... Read more |
Library services provider CAVAL has announced it has acquired Languages Direct. CAVAL acquired the specialist language library supply business from DA Information Services and said... Read more |
Former employees of Borders Singapore and gift card holders are likely to be paid the money owed to them following a decision by owner REDgroup... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), have been announced.... Read more |
Angela Savage has won the 2011 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award, presented on 25 November in Melbourne. Savage, author of Behind the Night Bazaar... Read more |
ABA holds meeting with Booksellers NZAustralian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker and president Jon Page met with their counterparts from Booksellers New Zealand over... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Smashwords adds services for literary agents Borders US... Read more |
‘One issue we are still very much negotiating (though some publishers might refer to it as "arguing") is that of electronic files and security. Who... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Sweet Spot (Peter Hartcher, Black Inc.), Shane Strange reviews the third annual fiction edition... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to Whisper (Chrissie Keighery); Brazilian rights to the ‘Billie B Brown’ series (Sally... Read more |
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth. Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Brenton E McKenna, Magabala Books (Ubby’s... Read more |
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The Heffley family is trapped indoors during a blizzard but when the snow melts, 13-year-old Greg is going to have to face the music after... Read more |
Ahead of the bicentenary of his birth next year, Charles Dickens was all over the papers this week thanks to a new biography: Claire Tomalin’s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2011 Guadalajara International Book Fair: On now, until 4 Dec... Read more |
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Juliana Archbold, president of The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australia since 2003, has died aged 73. Archibold, who had an extensive... Read more |
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Tom Wicker, former New York Times columnist and author of around 20 books including A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt, has died aged 85.
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Lana Peters (also known as Svetlana Alliluyeva), soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s only daughter, who defected to the West during the Cold War, has died aged... Read more |
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