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Thousands of school children, together with hundreds of bookshops and publishers, libraries and organisations around Australia will celebrate the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 1 September 2010...
Published: 01/09/2010
The Australian Publishers Association has advised that the TitlePage Management Group charged with providing business expertise to TitlePage has recommended to the APA Board that 'a stand-alone ebook ...
Published: 01/09/2010
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) hosted a well-attended full-day seminar on ebooks yesterday in Sydney, titled ‘The Future is Now'. The day's keynote speaker was Len Vlahos, the COO ...
Published: 01/09/2010
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described as an ‘extraordinary book' that &lsquo...
Published: 01/09/2010
REDgroup Retail, owner of Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls, has announced Rod Walker will step down from his role as executive chairman. The announcement comes as the group confirms ...
Published: 01/09/2010
Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness for over a year, and is st...
Published: 01/09/2010
The 2010 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards, previously known as the Montana awards, have been announced. The overall winner of the Book of the Year award (NZ$15,000/A$11,80...
Published: 01/09/2010
Wonky Donkey (Craig Smith & Katz Cowley, Scholastic NZ) was announced as the winner of the annual Nielsen BookData New Zealand Bookseller’s Choice Award for 2010, during the Booksellers NZ...
Published: 01/09/2010
The winners of the Thorpe-Bowker 2010 New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference Dinner in Auckland on Sunday 29 August. The winners were: Independent Boo...
Published: 01/09/2010
The winners of the Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 27 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Alex Miller was the overall winner of the Age Book of the Year award...
Published: 01/09/2010