Bloomsbury Publishing will launch a new literary imprint called Bloomsbury Circus in Australia and New Zealand this year. Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar told... Read more
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Children’s author Libby Gleeson will be the recipient of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art described Gleeson as ‘a worthy... Read more
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going... Read more
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Australian authors were among those recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours. Stuart Macintyre was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order... Read more
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Readings has announced that its Port Melbourne store will close. Readings managing director Mark Rubbo said in a statement that Readings had been ‘unable to... Read more
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The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers’ Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the... Read more
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Dale Campisi, publisher at Arcade Publications, has been appointed editor of Tasmanian literary journal Island. Campisi, who will also continue in his role as publisher... Read more
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NewSouth Publishing has launched a new prize for science writing called the Bragg UNSW Press Prize. The prize, which is named after Australia’s first Nobel... Read more
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New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books is now a full-service publishing house. Pear Jam Books was originally established last year by author Jill Marshall to... Read more
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New Zealand fiction writers David Lyndon Brown and Anna Taylor are the recipients of the 2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Brown and Taylor will each... Read more
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Text to launch $12.95 Australian classics listText Publishing will publish a list of low-price classics similar to Penguin’s Popular Penguin series and Random House’s $12.95... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N won’t stock Amazon titles in stores Nielsen... Read more
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‘You will not see flat pricing under agency (not if the publisher has half a retail mind). There will be days, weeks or even months... Read more
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On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at Text Publishing’s new ‘Australian Classics’ list; Jon Page talks about ebooks, the agency model and ‘predatory... Read more
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February Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Silent Fear) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (including regional). Carrie Tiffany, Picador (Mateship with Birds) Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Janette... Read more
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Think Big (HarperCollins), Donald Trump and Bill Zanker’s self-help book filled with personal stories from the authors’ rise to the top of their fields, is... Read more
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For a second week Peter Carey’s The Chemistry of Tears (Hamish Hamilton) has received the most mentions in Media Extra. Author Alain de Botton, who... Read more
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Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma Festival: 15 January to 5 February Perth International Arts Festival, WA: 10 February to 3... Read more
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Andrew McMillan, Northern Territory author and journalist, has died aged 54. McMillan wrote for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and NT News.... Read more
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