Random House to launch Children’s Vintage Classics list
Random House will launch a new Children’s Vintage Classics list in August. The list will be priced at $9.95 and will be promoted in a campaign to include a 'a...
‘Strong’ year for Random House Australia in 2011 despite ‘difficult retail circumstances’
Random House Australia 'delivered a strong underlying performance' in 2011, against 'difficult retail circumstances', according to managing director Margie Seale. Seale told Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher delivered a result of...
The Betrayal (Y A Erskine, Bantam)
The Betrayal—Y A Erskine’s second crime novel following The Brotherband—will reel you in and deliver a series of shocks you never saw coming. Like its predecessor, it bravely ventures into...
Random House increases ebooks price for libraries
Random House US, has increased the price of its ebooks for library wholesalers. Wholesale charges for ebooks will rise by over 20 % for new adult releases. Prices will more...
Indie Awards 2012 winners announced; ‘All That I Am’ named Indie Book of the Year
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 novel won the Indie Book of...
Penguin to launch Australian ebook ‘shorts’ list
Penguin Australia will launch an Australian list of short ebook-only titles this year. To be called Penguin Australia Shorts, the list will be similar to the Penguin Shorts list now...
Tsiolkas nominated for Bad S-x Award for second time
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has been nominated for the UK Literary Review's Bad S-x in Fiction Award for the second year running. Tsiolkas' novel Dead Europe, which was first published in...
Fishpond adds local content to ebookstore
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, dvds and other products to customers in Australia...
Fishpond adds local content to ebookstore
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, DVDs and other products to customers in Australia...
Oz, NZ 2012 IBBY Honour Books announced
The Australian and New Zealand nominees for the 2012 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List have been announced. The Australian section of IBBY has selected...
‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes wins 2011 Man Booker Prize
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape). Barnes, who was the bookies' favourite to win the award, was...
‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes wins 2011 Man Booker Prize
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape). Barnes, who was the bookies' favourite to win the award, was...
Heiss wins fourth Deadly Award for ‘Paris Dreaming’
Anita Heiss has won the 2011 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her novel Paris Dreaming (Bantam), announced on 27 September at a special event at the Sydney...
‘The 10pm Question’ wins Corine International Book Award
The 10pm Question by New Zealand author Kate De Goldi (A&U / Random House NZ) has won the Young Reader's Award in the 2011 Corine International Book Awards. The Corine...
In Brief
New name for Victorian Writers' CentreThe Victorian Writers' Centre has announced that the organisation will be renamed Writers Victoria. The announcement follows a recent survey in which members were asked...
‘Blood Men’ wins 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award
Blood Men by Paul Cleave (Random House NZ) has won this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction, announced on 21 August at the Christchurch Arts Festival. Cleave's...
Random House joins growing list of publishers providing ebooks for review
Random House Australia is the latest local publisher to offer electronic advance reading copies (ARC) to booksellers and reviewers. Random House Australia marketing and publicity director and head of digital...
Prosecutors serve Hicks order to restrain memoir funds
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions served David Hicks with a notice of application for an order to restrain funds from the sale of Hicks's memoirs Guantanamo: My Journey (William...
Masson, Tuffield join OzCo VIP program committee
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have joined the committee for the...
Edwards joins Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced that Larissa Edwards, currently associate publisher at Random House, will join the publisher in the newly created role of head of publishing in July....