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Sony launches two new ereaders, announces REDgroup partnership

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:09:14 -0500

Sony has announced the release of two new e-ink ereader devices, due to come to Australia and New Zealand within days, and has also revealed it will partner with REDgroup Retail in both countries. &nb...

WA Premier's Awards 2008 and 2009 winners announced

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:09:06 -0500

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett announced the winners of the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in Perth on 1 September. ‘For the first time these awards were broa...

Fourth annual Indigenous Literacy Day today

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:09 -0500

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...

TitlePage: standalone ebook solution 'not viable' but platform upgrade planned to integrate ebook supply chain

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:09:34 -0500

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 ...

'The Future is Now' ABA ebook seminar

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:09:00 -0500

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 ...

Queensland Premier's Awards 2010 winners announced

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:08:56 -0500

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...

Browne to replace Walker at REDgroup

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:30 -0500

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 ...

LP: Samson resigns due to ill health

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:08:07 -0500

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...

'Encircled Lands' wins 2010 Book of the Year at the New Zealand Post awards

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:32 -0500

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...

Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers' Choice Award 2010 Winner announced

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:08:38 -0500

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...

Thorpe-Bowker 2010 NZ Book Industry Awards

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:08:43 -0500

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...

'Lovesong' wins 2010 Age Book of the Year

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:33 -0500

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...

'Anonymous Premonition' wins $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:21 -0500

Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Hold (UQP) has won this year's Kate Challis RAKA Award. The $25,000 award for Indigenous creative artists is offered in a five-year cycle with a different area of the a...

Davitt Awards winners announced

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:08:43 -0500

Allen & Unwin won all awards in the Sisters in Crime Australia’s 10th Davitt Awards for best Australian women’s crime writing, presented by Val McDermid in the Celtic Club as part of t...

Davidson wins 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:06 -0500

Robyn Davidson has won the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work-in-progress ‘Self Portrait with Imaginary Mother'. The fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the nonfiction fields of ...

2010 Inky Awards longlist announced

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:18 -0500

The longlist for the 2010 Inky Awards has been announced. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, presented by Inside a Dog, a website funded by the State Library of Victoria.Here a...

On Demand Acquires DPA

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:08:28 -0500

Digital printer On Demand has acquired Digital Printing Australia (DPA). Print industry journal Print 21 Online reports that DPA directors Claude Lucchesi and Kirk Peterson will leave the business, wi...

'Addition' film rights sold

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:50 -0500

Text Publishing has announced that film rights to Toni Jordan's Addition have been acquired by Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea. The film is set to be co-produced by Cristina Pozzan of Buon...

MWF joins international festivals to form 'The Word Alliance'

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:08:16 -0500

The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is one of five international literary festivals that have formed The Word Alliance (TWA). TWA was launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival director ...

In brief

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:08:34 -0500

Amsterdam on 'Guardian' first book longlist Things We Didn't See Coming by Australian author Steven Amsterdam (Sleepers Publishing) has been longlisted for this year's £10,000 (A$17,000) Gu...

Around the world

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:09:57 -0500

Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Should writers pay for book reviews?'The digital era has not made publishers defuct'The OED will not ...

On Fancy Goods

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:08:25 -0500

On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Angela Meyer reviews Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), we talk to Toni Jordan about the numerous and varied book covers for her novel Addition (film rights to which ...

Rights round-up

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:08:00 -0500

In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Random House has sold Hell on the Way to Heaven (Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy) to Italy, The Sixth Wave (James Bradfield Moody & Bianca Nogrady) to Japa...

On tour

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:08:50 -0500

September Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) Christine Bongers, Random House (Henry Hoey Hobson)Steph Bowe, Text (Girl Saves Boy) Ian ...

Quote of the week

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:09:30 -0500

‘Online, our undies are hanging out for all to see’--A&U’s Elizabeth Weiss utilised the ‘undies drawer’ metaphor to try to liven up the topic of metadata at this week...

Got news?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:08:03 -0500

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Bestsellers this week

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:08:37 -0500

Sales of bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) continue to gather steam, with the book topping the bestseller charts for the second week in a row. The film adaptation starri...

Most mentioned: This week in 'Media Extra'

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:08:50 -0500

Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic in Australia, and Freedom (Jonathan Fr...

Forthcoming events

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:08:26 -0500

Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Beijing Book Fair: 30 August-3 SeptemberMelbourne Writers Festival: 28 August-5 SeptemberBrisbane Writers Festival:...

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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:08:39 -0500

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