Over three quarters of the books reviewed in Bookseller+Publisher magazine last year were released simultaneously as ebooks, while 56% of all adult books reviewed were... Read more |
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey. If your store has not yet been surveyed, please complete the survey online here (booksellers).... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced a number of key staff changes and four redundancies, in a restructure designed to ‘position Murdoch Books for the new year... Read more |
The head office of children’s publisher Weldon Owen will be relocated from Australia to London over the next six months. Current Weldon Owen managing director... Read more |
Dymocks’ new publishing arm D Publishing, launched late last year, has announced a further update to its author contract. Michael Allara, Dymocks general manger, ecommerce,... Read more |
Alternative Sydney bookstore Adyar Bookshop will close in its current location at the end of this month. Store manager Warren Wickman told the Weekly Book... Read more |
Amy Espeseth has won the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize for her manuscript Trouble Telling the Weather. Espeseth will receive a cash... Read more |
Australian poet Mark Tredinnick was awarded the inaugural Montreal International Poetry Prize, worth approximately $48,500, for his poem ‘Walking Underwater’ in December 2011. Tredinnick’s poem was selected from... Read more |
Former digital publishing co-ordinator at Scribe Publications Tamsin Wagner has left the company. Wagner, who had worked at Scribe for close to eight years, finished in... Read more |
The recipients of Asialink’s 2012 residencies have been announced. The recipients of the Arts Management residencies related to writing, and the projects they will work... Read more |
Cash and 12 Cumulus ereaders were stolen from Pages & Pages Booksellers in Mosman, NSW on 1 January. Store manager, and president of the Australian... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize was announced on 10 January. The shortlisted titles are: The Wandering Falcon (Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Hamish... Read more |
Australian books have featured heavily in the wine and drinks categories of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Hardie Grant Australia has been named Best... Read more |
Brian Cook, publishing consultant and proprietor of the Manuscript Appraisal Agency, is the new owner of the Authors’ Agent literacy agency. Cook announced that he... Read more |
Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts in December 2011, the first major review of the... Read more |
Walker Books has announced a partnership with the National Year of Reading 2012 (NYR2012) in the lead-up to the official launch of the initiative on... Read more |
Eligibility criteria for OzCo publishing grants now onlineEligibility criteria and application details for publishing grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Cleric calles for Rushdie to be banned from... Read more |
‘Some independent shops have reported not a bad Christmas–after all, shoppers have to go somewhere’–Nielsen general manager Shaun Symonds on Christmas book sales without REDgroup... Read more |
On Fancy Goods so far this year, Alex Adsett considers the third draft of the D Publishing contract, Heather Dyer interviews Gillian Mears on Foal’s... Read more |
In rights news this week: Sales Children’s/YA–Fremantle Press has sold North American rights, including English language and bi-lingual editions, to Michael Thompson’s picture book, The... Read more |
January James Duigan, Kyle Books (Clean and Lean Cookbook) Sydney. David Sedaris, Hachette (Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk) Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. Kirsten Tranter, Fourth... Read more |
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In the lead up to the 2012 Olympics in London, a key member of the Games’ organising committee is ruthlessly murdered. The London branch of... Read more |
The first Media Extra of 2012 will be published this Monday, 16 January. If you would like to receive Media Extra to find out which titles... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Lockyear Arts Festival: 13-16 January Midsumma Festival: 15 January to 5... Read more |
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David Bateman, founder of David Bateman Publishing in New Zealand in 1979, has died. Bateman was a life member of PANZ, and was active on... Read more |
Christopher Hitchens, author, literary critic and journalist, has died aged 62. Hitchens authored 17 books, including God Is Not Great (2007), The Trial of Henry Kissinger,... Read more |
Ronald Searle, renowned British cartoonist and creator of St. Trinians and Molesworth, has died aged 91. Searle spent over three years in a prisoner-of-war camp... Read more |
Simms Taback, children’s book author and illustrator best known for his version of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Joseph Had... Read more |
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