At a suburban barbecue, a tight-knit group of family and friends celebrate Hector’s 40th birthday. Food and wine flow, but when a fight starts between... Read more |
In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher Fullers events manager Rachel Edwards talks about the ways the store is tweaking its events program, including the introduction of... Read more |
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter (14 December) will be the last for 2011. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2012 will be 11 January 2011. Any... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of book retailers and suppliers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers can complete... Read more |
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Public holidays include: Sunday, 25 December 2011: Christmas Day. Monday, 26 December... Read more |
The federal government has announced a number of changes to the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2012. In addition to existing awards for adult fiction,... Read more |
The 2010-11 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History has been jointly awarded to A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock by Jim Davidson (UNSW... Read more |
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers.... Read more |
Google has announced that the first ebook reading device ‘to have integrated directly with Google eBooks’ is now available locally. Mark Tanner, strategic partnership manager at... Read more |
In the US, Judge Denny Chin has indicated that attorneys for Google will ask for the lawsuits brought against the company by the US Authors... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed Mike Shuttleworth as its new program manager. Shuttleworth, formerly program manager at the State Library of Victoria’s Centre... Read more |
The South Australian Writers’ Centre (SAWC) has appointed Sarah Tooth as its new director. Tooth, who has most recently co-directed the Ubud Writers & Readers... Read more |
Finch Publishing has announced the launch of its ebook program. Marketing and publicity manager Laura Boon told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher’s ‘leading... Read more |
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local... Read more |
While they are yet to secure a sponsor for the Stella Prize, prize organisers say they expect to be able to announce the establishment of... Read more |
New Zealand bookselling chain Paper Plus will complete a multi-million dollar rebranding process in March 2012. Paper Plus CEO Rob Smith told the Weekly Book... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) will hold a publishing conference in March 2012. The conference, which will be held on 1 and 2... Read more |
The animal protection institute Voiceless has announced a new $15,000 short writing prize to be awarded for the first time in 2012. The Voiceless Writing... Read more |
A new New Zealand award for a children’s book in the mind, body, spirit (MBS) genre will be launched in 2012. The planned NZ$10,000 (A$7600) prize... Read more |
Christchurch author and curator Justin Paton is the recipient of the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, previously known as the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize.... Read more |
National Year of Reading 2012 (NYR) is set to officially launch at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on 14 February 2012. Jennifer Byrne... Read more |
Brisbane poet Graham Nunn is the recipient of the 2011 Johnno award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in... Read more |
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney will join the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) as a new sponsor. The... Read more |
The winners of this year’s West Australia Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning books are: Younger Readers Award The Ugly Truth... Read more |
Pizzinga named 2011 Vic rep of the yearAnthony Pizzinga from Random House Australia is this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Victorian Sales Rep of the Year.... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon acquires US titles from Marshall Cavendish Ed... Read more |
‘All too often in the past good intentions to work across the industry for common good have foundered on grounds of self-interest or mutual ignorance,... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Andrea Hanke begins our round-up of all those ‘best books of 2011’ lists, Eliza Metcalfe reviews Paramedico: Adventures by Ambulance by Benjamin... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Text Publishing has sold Dutch rights in Fishing the River of Time (Tony Taylor) to Contact; and Turkish rights in The... Read more |
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth. Cadel Evans, Hardie Grant (The Long Road to Paris) Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Becca Fitzpatrick,... Read more |
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Stephanie Plum is heading back to New Jersey after a nightmare vacation in Hawaii. To make matters worse, the man sitting beside her on the... Read more |
Sherlock Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz brings the great man to life for a new generation of readers in The House of Silk (Orion), which sits at... Read more |
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: QLD Booksellers Christmas Party: 8 December Lockyer Writers Festival: 6-9 January Midsumma Festival: 15... Read more |
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