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Paul Donovan has retired from his position as executive director of Allen & Unwin (A&U). A&U executive chairman Patrick Gallagher told the Weekly Book Newsletter... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Dennis Haskell has stepped down as chair of the Literature Board.... Read more |
Children’s publisher Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced the launch of a new imprint called Chirpy Bird. The publisher said in a statement this week... Read more |
Mark Harding and Anne Treasure have joined Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum as digital marketing executives. Harding previously worked at Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, NSW, looking... Read more |
IAD Press has announced that Tony Duke has joined the publisher in the role of manager. Duke told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the role... Read more |
New Holland Publishers Australia has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that it has made a number of changes to its sales team. New Holland... Read more |
A new Guide to Digital Publishing, developed by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will be launched in February. The resource will be launched at CAL’s... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new one-off grants initiative for children’s picture book illustrators. Applications are now open for emerging, developing... Read more |
RMIT University in Melbourne will offer a new Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing this year, and will phase out its existing Diploma and... Read more |
Shareholders of McPherson’s Limited have approved the demerger of the company’s printing and consumers products divisions, reports Print21. The approval opens up the way for the... Read more |
Campion Education has acquired a majority shareholding in educational technology supplier Edsoft Interactive. Campion managing director James Cathro told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Edsoft... Read more |
Australia’s Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes face ‘probably the greatest challenge since their inception’ in the form of ebooks, according... Read more |
Robert Adamson has been selected as the inaugural Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Chair in Australian Poetry at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Adamson, who... Read more |
The New Years Honour list for New Zealand has been announced. Among the recipients were Robyn Bargh, managing director of Wellington publishing company Huia, who... Read more |
More ReadCloud ebookstores launchedMore independent Australian bookstores have launched their ebookstores with ReadCloud. Birchalls, Bookshuttle, Books and Beyond, Megalong Books, Melbourne University Bookshop, New Edition... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Burnside wins TS Eliot Prize Amazon to launch... Read more |
‘People have responded very favourably to the reduction in prices and are starting to consider books to be good value’–Anna Low, owner of Potts Point... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Craig Cliff writes about ‘the trans-Tasman literary gulf’ and how to bridge it, Andrea Hanke takes a look at Picador’s... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Text Publishing has sold UK rights to The Cook (Wayne Macauley) to Quercus; Taiwanese rights in The Vanishing Act (Mette... 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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The nephew of Bernard Fairclough, a wealthy and influential business magnate, has died and Inspector Thomas Lynley is sent in undercover to investigate. The official... Read more |
Jane Sullivan spoke about literary sexism in several forums during the week and her book Little People (Scribe) has consequently made it to the top of... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma Festival, Melbourne: 15 January to 5 February Living Literature... Read more |
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John Seymour, long-time publisher and sales representative in New Zealand, has died. Publishers NZ writes: ‘John spent his whole working life in the book trade,... Read more |
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British crime writer Reginald Hill has died, aged 75. Hill wrote the ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’ series, which was adapted to television by the BBC.
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