This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2011. The first issue for 2012 will be published on 11 January. Any material... Read more |
The annual Bookseller+Publisher pre-Christmas survey gives the trade a picture of how booksellers are faring in the lead up to Christmas. If your business has not yet completed... Read more |
As an update to last week’s Chistmas closing list, please note these additional entries and amendments. Peribo 22/12/11 4/1/12 Random House (office) 23/12/11 3/1/12 Random House (warehouse)... Read more |
Every year we ask publishers to share their most anticipated titles for the following year. Here’s what they had to say… Fiction Patrick White‘s (pictured)... Read more |
Dymocks has officially launched its web-based publishing arm, D Publishing. As previously reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter, the new business, which can be accessed at www.dpublishing.com,... Read more |
Dymocks’ new publishing arm D Publishing has amended aspects of its author contract in response to criticism of the service. Dymocks general manger of ecommerce... Read more |
Children’s authors Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor were named the inaugural Australian Children’s Laureates at a ceremony in Adelaide on 10 December. South Australian... Read more |
Jonathan Parsons has been appointed the new director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. Parsons ‘brings to this position over twenty years experience working in... Read more |
Shearer’s Bookshop officially launched its ReadCloud-based ebookstore on 6 December. ‘ReadCloud has a focus on schools and education. We do a lot of business with... Read more |
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le,... Read more |
Australian poet John Kinsella has withdrawn from the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry because of ethical concerns about award sponsor Aurum Funds, reports... Read more |
Senator Kim Carr is no longer Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research following a cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard this week.... Read more |
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced that Jodie Mann has been appointed to take over the position of managing director when current managing director Peter... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria’s has announced the appointment of Sue Roberts as its new CEO and state librarian. Roberts, who has 15 years’ experience in strategic... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the establishment of a new scholarship for children’s booksellers to honour former ABA employee Elizabeth Riley, who died... Read more |
The Griffith Review and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) have announced a new competition for novellas. The Novella Project seeks ‘the best original novellas from... Read more |
John Wiley & Sons Australia has announced that Lucy Russell, general manager for higher education, will retirement from the company in April 2012. The publisher... Read more |
The winner of the 2011 Human Rights Literature Award was announced in Sydney on 9 December. The nonfiction award, which is sponsored by the Co-op... Read more |
Bill Gammage has won the ‘individual’ section of the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his book The Biggest Estate on Earth: How... Read more |
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients chosen to receive funding in 2012. The 2012 grant recipients are: Save the Children ($20,000), for the ‘delivery... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage have announced funding of NZ$1 million (approximately A$756,000) for New... Read more |
Whitcoulls bookstores in New Zealand are now selling the new android-based tablet from Kobo, the Kobo Vox. The Kobo Vox retails for NZ$399 (approximately A$302)... Read more |
The federal government has announced that it will establish the Retail Council of Australia in response to the Productivity Commission’s final report in its public... Read more |
The Australian book market has had a few hurdles in the past year, but overall signs are positive, as Tim Coronel and Andrew Rankin report in... Read more |
For the ninth year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading... Read more |
Bansen joins ABAThe Australian Booksellers Association has announced that Michelle Bansen has joined the association in the position of member services officer. Bansen has previously... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: two self-pub titles in Amazon’s 2011 top 10... Read more |
‘I think people are coming out of recession mode and there are fewer shops for them to buy from’–Heather Dyer on what she thinks is... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Amelia Vahtrick reviews Darius Bell and the Crystal Bees (Odo Hirsch, A&U), David Cohen reviews The Rattler and Other Stories... 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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Kay Scarpetta is on a mission to get to the bottom of the murder of her former deputy chief Jack Fielding. While following a lead... Read more |
As the year draws to a close, publications are looking back at 2011 and compiling lists of the best books of the year. For a round up of the... Read more |
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: Final deadline for books to reach the APA for 2012 APA Book Design Awards:... Read more |
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Gilbert Adair, novelist and film critic, has died aged 66. Adair’s works include the ‘Evadne Mount’ trilogy, and Flickers: A History of the Cinema in... Read more |
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