The March issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 63 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, the first Junior supplement for the year and a look... Read more |
Major players in the ebook retailing market appear to be facing a challenge to their current online retailing model, following a move by Apple that could net the... Read more |
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced the release of a number of new ebook titles and plans to continue to expand its ebook program... Read more |
Bloomsbury, which opened an office in Australia this year, has announced the appointment of Alexandra Pringle to the new role of coordinating acquisitions for Bloomsbury... Read more |
Global ebook distributor OverDrive has announced that it has expanded its monthly ‘Most Downloaded Books from the Library’ lists to include territory-specific charts, including one... Read more |
Wellington-based author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi has won this year’s Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award. De Goldi received the award, which... Read more |
A number of Australian books have been included in the Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities list produced by the International Board on Books... Read more |
At least two independent Melbourne bookstores were hit by the dramatic flash floods in the Victorian capital city last Friday. The St Kilda Readings store, located... Read more |
Former publishing director of Penguin New Zealand Geoff Walker has established a new publishing consultancy business in Auckland. Walker told the Weekly Book Newsletter that... Read more |
New Zealand fiction writers Sue Orr and Mark Broatch have been announced as the recipients of this year’s Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Orr and Broatch... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the establishment of a new Training Fund. PANZ said in a statement last week that individual... Read more |
Borders website nominated for AIMIA Retail award The Borders Australia website has been nominated in the Best Retail category in this year’s Australian Interactive Media Association (AIMIA)... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: NYT launches ebook bestseller list book bloggers boost... Read more |
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On the Fancy Goods blog this week, David Gaunt interviews Gail Jones on ‘Five Bells’ (Vintage) and Angela Meyer reviews ‘Yearn’ (Tobsha Learner, HarperCollins).
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In rights news this week: SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Tuscan Rose (all by Belinda Alexandra) to Hungary; and Mercy and Exile... Read more |
February Daniel Akst, Scribe (We Have Met the Enemy) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Sara Foster, Random House (Beneath the Shadows) Regional WA. Jacqueline Harvey, Random House... Read more |
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‘We want world rights where ever possible,’ Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin says, as the company announces a restructure to meet the challenges of globalisation.
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Letters and Numbers (Hardie Grant), a word and number puzzles book based on the SBS TV show testing players’ vocabulary and mathematical skill, is top of... Read more |
It’s no surprise that both Gail Jones’ Five Bells (Vintage) and Annie Proulx’s Bird Cloud (Fourth Estate) have appeared in Media Extra for the second... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Taipei International Book Exhibition: 9-14 February Intellectual Property Research Institute... Read more |
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Joyce Nicholson Thorpe, founder of the Weekly Book Newsletter, died in late January aged 91. Publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter Tim Coronel writes: ‘We are... Read more |
Vivienne Brophy, who was editor of D W Thorpe’s journal The Australian Newsagent & Stationer, passed away peacefully at her home this week. Brophy was... Read more |
Founder and Chair of Acorn Press Ltd, Bishop John Wilson, has died aged 73. Wilson was an academic theologian and a significant figure in the... Read more |
Brian Jacques, children’s book author of the New York Times bestselling ‘Redwall’ series, has died aged 71. Jacques’ 22nd and final book in the series,... Read more |
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