Please note that, due to the Labour Day public holiday in Victoria next Monday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 15 March.... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and RR Bowker (parent company of Weekly Book Newsletter owner Thorpe-Bowker) have announced that Copia Interactive will be the supplier providing... Read more |
Ebook distributor Overdrive has announced it has acquired local ebook platform provider Booki.sh. Peter Haasz, speaking for Booki.sh told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Booki.sh–founded by... Read more |
The winners of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced in Adelaide on Saturday 3 March. The Premier’s Award, worth $10,000, was awarded... Read more |
Peter Field, global CEO of Dorling Kindersley (DK) Publishing and chairman of Penguin Australia and New Zealand, will retire from Penguin at the end of... Read more |
The Tasmania-based Book City chain (not connected to the Book City chain owned by Collins Booksellers), has been placed into liquidation. Paul Cook and Johnathan... Read more |
Blue tarpaulin shades have replaced the (famously hot) white tents at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week. It’s one of new director Laura Kroetsch’s biggest changes... Read more |
Canberra bookseller Meredith Wright has confirmed her new position managing the National Library of Australia (NLA) bookshop, following the closure of her bookstore Daltons Books in... Read more |
Australian subscription television channel Studio will screen a new program dedicated to literature and writing from April. For the Love of Books is a 10-part... Read more |
The Co-op Bookshop has launched an outdoor ‘window shop’ at its Macquarie University campus which allows customers to scan pictures of textbooks with their smartphones... Read more |
An email from Dirt Cheap Books to its mailing list customers has announced the company is ‘closing down forever’. The email said the Dirt Cheap Books... Read more |
Are men better writers than women? To answer this question and to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, the Stella Prize and independent booksellers... Read more |
An Australian group-buying site owned by Microsoft and Nine Entertainment has withdrawn an ereader deal that included 4000 pirated ebooks. Last week, Cudo advertised a $99 ereader which came with a... Read more |
Penguin New Zealand is recalling all copies of Sally Cameron’s The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden due to plagiarism allegations. The book, originally published in September 2008 and... Read more |
Australian guests were among the 128 publishers to attend the Publishing for the Future conference, held by the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) from... Read more |
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that it will take over representation of UK publisher Canongate in the Australian and New Zealand markets from April. The... Read more |
Brendan O’Connor has been appointed as the new Federal Minister for Small Business. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the appointment on Friday 2 March as... Read more |
The American Library Association (ALA) and the Carnegie Corporation have announced two new awards for adult books. The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in... Read more |
McGraw-Hill Education’s business in Australia and New Zealand is ‘benefiting from the rapid growth in digital products and sales that is transforming education’, despite ‘challenging... Read more |
The Five Mile Press will look to sell approximately 100 titles a year into India through parent company Bonnier’s expansion into India, according to managing... Read more |
The recent acquisition of Inscape Holdings by John Wiley & Sons represents an ‘opportunity to build further’ in the English-language training market in Australia, according... Read more |
A spokesperson for Google has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Google is accepting new members in its eBooks Affiliates program, despite international news reports... Read more |
Facebook business page users have been notified of significant changes to their brand pages that are set to take place on March 31. The biggest... Read more |
Screen Australia funding for book adaptationsScreen Australia has approved funding for the development of thirteen new feature film projects, four of which are being adapted... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Barnes & Noble holds on to publishing business... Read more |
‘Years ago I was quoted as saying that I loved our business because it was like going to the casino every day, such was the... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Meg Whelan reviews The Reluctant Hallelujah (Gabrielle Williams, Penguin), Max Oliver reviews Sicily, It’s Not Quite Tuscany (Shamus Sillar, Arena), Chris... Read more |
March Rosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley and Kaisa Breeden,... Read more |
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Alain de Botton argues that the secular world can learn a range of lessons from religion in his book Religion for Atheists (Penguin). The book is... Read more |
The lives of two very different women intersect in Candice Bruce’s The Longing (Vintage), when Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria in the 1840s from her Scottish... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Adelaide Writers’ Week: 3-8 March 2012 New Zealand International Arts... Read more |
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Barney Rosset, the founder of US publisher Grove Press, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Evergreen Review, has died aged 89. Rosset was well... Read more |
Paul Haines, a speculative fiction writer whose works include Slice Of Life (2009) and The Last Days of Kali Yuga (2011), has died aged 41. Haines... Read more |
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