Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer who accepts a well-paying UN peacekeeping job in Bosnia, begins work as part of a private corporate army, training... Read more |
The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the ‘Best Designed Cover of... Read more |
Net sales at Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia were ‘slightly up’ on figures from 2010, according to managing director Lou Johnson. Johnson told the Weekly... Read more |
Parsons Bookshop in Auckland, New Zealand, will close in April. Owner Helen Parsons, who owns the independent store with her husband Roger, told the Weekly... Read more |
Specialist sports bookshop Sportswriter closed as a bricks-and-mortar bookshop in December 2011 and is now operating as an exclusively online business. Owner Anne McAvaney told... Read more |
Peter Strong, owner of Smiths Alternative Bookshop in Canberra and executive director of the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA), has been appointed as one... Read more |
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has launched a new creative writing prize with Monash University called the Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The award... Read more |
A book that was seized from a New Zealand bookstore by the New Zealand Internal Affairs Department in November 2011 has been reclassified as ‘unrestricted’... Read more |
The Western Australian Government has introduced legislation in parliament which will allow ‘general retail shops’ across Perth’s metropolitan area to trade on Sundays between 11am and... Read more |
Dymocks Children’s Charities launches seventh Book BankDymocks Children’s Charities launched its seventh Book Bank at La Perouse Public School in South-Eastern Sydney this week. Each... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N unveils new 8GB Nook tablet BML survey... Read more |
‘At TOC I became much more conscious of one of the other seismic shifts that is taking place for publishers across the globe, something we... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, we meet Laura Kroetsch, director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, take a look at the 60th annual APA Book Design Awards... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Allen & Unwin has sold French and Canadian rights for Autumn Laing (Alex Miller); Brazilian Portuguese rights have been sold... Read more |
February Glen Duncan, Text (Talulla Rising) Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne (through to March). Johan Harstad, UWA Publishing (Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All... Read more |
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CIA-trained assassin Mitch Rapp has been working through a list to eliminate the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians. But, the hunted men... Read more |
In Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists (Hamish Hamilton), he argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false, yet claims religions still have some... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Perth Writers Festival: 23-26 February Copyright Agency annual seminar, Melbourne:... Read more |
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