Bookseller+Publisher will launch a new-look website and Weekly Book Newsletter next week. The redesigned website will feature new subscriber-only content including book reviews, features, author... Read more |
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has been selected by independent booksellers as their favourite Australian book from the past 12 months. Funder’s... Read more |
In a session at the Leading Edge Books annual conference on Sunday 12 March, Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly announced the price structure of the new... Read more |
The 2012 Leading Edge Books Conference, held in Melbourne on 10 and 11 March, was the largest in the conference’s history, according to Leading Edge... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, presented ‘for a work of outstanding literary merit published in 2011’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award was announced on 8 March. The shortlisted titles are: Too Close to Home (Georgia Blain, Vintage) When We... Read more |
Inventive Labs, the software and website design company founded by Joseph Pearson and Virginia Murdoch and responsible for the creation of the Booki.sh ebook platform, will... Read more |
Book sales were ‘up slightly on 2010’ at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said it was ‘a relief given... Read more |
The longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$44,000), is awarded for the best novel of... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher has released data indicating that reviews of books by men outnumber reviews of books by women in several of Australia’s major print newspapers and... Read more |
Jamie Byng, publisher and managing director of Canongate Books in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) national... Read more |
A secondhand bookshop in Wollongong, NSW, has decided to sell new-release books after the city was left without a dedicated bookshop following the closure of... Read more |
Wellington writer Jack Lasenby has won the 2012 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for his ‘Uncle Trev’ series. The Gaelyn Gordon Award is presented annually by... Read more |
Specialist Brisbane bookshop The Language People is currently for sale. The store, which specialises in language-learning and adult literacy and numeracy resources, including English-as-a-second-language materials,... Read more |
John Garratt Publishing will rebrand as ‘Garratt Publishing’, the company has announced in a statement. The niche publisher of religious resources said the ‘brand new look... Read more |
The latest actions in the copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository HathiTrust and five universities in the US could force a more specific legal definition of what... Read more |
Google has launched a new online platform called Google Play which combines its ebookstore, digital music offering and mobile applications store. Consumers visiting Google eBooks,... Read more |
The Western Australian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia hosted 22 WA authors at its ninth annual ‘night with our stars’ event on... Read more |
Spinifex authors nominated for Publishing Triangle awardsTwo Spinifex Press authors have been nominated for awards presented by the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kobo boss says tablets are for ‘casual readers’... Read more |
‘At the moment the skills of the "higher order of booksellers" are missing from the online environment … those of us who want to participate... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week we meet Claudia Gray, author of Balthazar (HarperCollins), Rebecca Butterworth reviews Missing: Raven Lucas Book 1 (Christine Harris, Scholastic), and... Read more |
March Rosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Maggie Beer, Penguin (Maggie’s Verjuice Cookbook) nationwide. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra... Read more |
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A millionaire is gunned down and detective Lindsay Boxer finds that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four ‘untouchable’ criminals in James... Read more |
Wendy James’ The Mistake (Michael Joseph) is about Jodie Garrow, a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks, who adopts out her newborn baby... Read more |
Trade events coming up over th next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24 February to... Read more |
French comic-book artist Jean Giraud, also known as ‘Moebius’, has died aged 73. Giraud’s dark fantasy worlds influenced graphic novels and science fiction films such as Alien,... Read more |
Historian, bushman and author Robert Arthur Breeden has died aged 84. Breeden compiled Aboriginal Words, Stories & Legends (Department of Environment and Conservation) of Jack Bussell’s handwritten... Read more |
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