Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin star in the latest Coen brothers’ movie. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’ father has been shot in cold blood by the... Read more |
In the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher we round up the titles Australian publishers are expecting big things from in 2011. New books from authors including... Read more |
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey to see how the industry fared in the Christmas sale season. We will publish the... Read more |
Online bookstore Booktopia is the first Australian bookseller to enter into a partnership with Google to sell ebooks, reports The Canberra Times. According to the... Read more |
Jerome Gauder has resigned from his position as Australian managing director of REDgroup Retail. Gauder, who has been with the group since 1996, was responsible... Read more |
Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean announced a series of changes to this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards last week. A statement from the Minister said... Read more |
Bookstores in Queensland are among retail businesses that have been affected by the devastating floods currently sweeping across the state. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that... Read more |
PMP, the owner of book distributor The Scribo Group, has admitted its acquisition of the distribution business in September 2008 ‘has yet to deliver on... Read more |
Bookselling and retailing organisations welcomed the Federal Government announcement in December that the Productivity Commission will conduct an inquiry into the future of the Australian retail sector... Read more |
REDgroup Retail has entered the debate about foreign retailers being exempt from collecting GST on some Australian purchases, joining a coalition of some of the... Read more |
Shirley Shackleton won the 2010 Walkley Book Award for The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo (Murdoch Books), announced at the Walkley... Read more |
Scholastic Australia has announced the appointment of John Oldmeadow as the new director of the Dromkeen Foundation. As part of his new role Oldmeadow will... Read more |
New national laws to protect consumers and ensure fair trading across Australia came into effect on 1 January this year. The new Australian Consumer Law... Read more |
This year’s Newbery and Caldecott award winners have been announced. The Newbery Medal goes to Clare Vanderpool for her debut novel Moon over Manifest (Random... Read more |
Craig Munro is the recipient of the 2010 Johnno Award. Munro is a well-known author, the former publishing manager at University of Queensland Press (UQP)... Read more |
Melbourne University has announced that it will launch a new literary initiative for the 2011 academic year called Melbourne Summer Reading. First-year students across all... Read more |
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced that five Australian state-based writers’ centres have joined together to form a national... Read more |
The national winners in the 2011 Gourmand Cookbook Awards were announced in December. The Australian Best Cookbook of the Year was awarded to Bentley: Contemporary... Read more |
A number of New Zealand authors and members of the literary community have been appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of... Read more |
New NZ award for children’s book illustrators The New Zealand Arts Foundation announced the establishment of a new award for children’s book illustrators in December. The... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories recently added to our Around the World blog: One in five UK libraries to close B&N has its best... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Applications open for the 12th Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship in... Read more |
JanuaryAlison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky)Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Violent Exposure)Jane Hawking, Palgrave Macmillan (Travelling to Infinity)Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required)Sally... Read more |
‘We have all been shocked by the images and news coming out of Queensland. Our hearts go out to all those affected by the floods:... Read more |
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Last Sacrifice (Rachel Mead, Razorbill), the sixth and final book in the ‘Vampire Academy’ series, tops the bestsellers chart this week followed by The Ugly... Read more |
The first edition of Media Extra for 2011 will be published on Monday, 17 January. To find out which books were mentioned in the media... Read more |
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Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions writes: ‘I was very saddened to hear that my dear friend Ruth Park has passed on. She held a very... Read more |
Poet, anthologist and educator Harvey McQueen has died aged 76. His most recent book, These I Have Loved (Steele Roberts Publishing Ltd), presenting 100 of his... Read more |
Children’s author Elisabeth Beresford has died aged 84. Elisabeth Beresford is best known as the creator of The Wombles. The Wombles books were first published... Read more |
Don Grady, a New Zealand author of 12 books, has died aged 81. His last book on the Edwin Fox ship received funding from the... Read more |
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Dick King-Smith, the British author of many popular children’s books, has died aged 88. His 1983 book The Sheep-Pig was made into the Australian film Babe.
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