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Bloomsbury to launch new literary imprint

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:01:55 -0500

Bloomsbury Publishing will launch a new literary imprint called Bloomsbury Circus in Australia and New Zealand this year. Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar told the Weekly Book Ne...

Gleeson to be awarded Dromkeen Medal, Librarian's Medal to Heraud

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:01:43 -0500

Children's author Libby Gleeson will be the recipient of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art described Gleeson as 'a worthy recipient of the Dromkeen ...

Adaptations win at AACTA Awards

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:01:13 -0500

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going to book adaptations. The award for best film ...

Authors among those named in Australia Day Honours list

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:21 -0500

Australian authors were among those recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours. Stuart Macintyre was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) for 'distinguished serv...

Readings Port Melbourne to close

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:01:05 -0500

Readings has announced that its Port Melbourne store will close. Readings managing director Mark Rubbo said in a statement that Readings had been 'unable to come to an arrangement with the landlord' r...

2012 Adelaide Writers' Week program launched

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:01:45 -0500

The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate in the event are...

Campisi appointed 'Island' editor

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:01:48 -0500

Dale Campisi, publisher at Arcade Publications, has been appointed editor of Tasmanian literary journal Island. Campisi, who will also continue in his role as publisher at Arcade, replaces former edit...

NewSouth announces new science writing prize

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:01:52 -0500

NewSouth Publishing has launched a new prize for science writing called the Bragg UNSW Press Prize. The prize, which is named after Australia's first Nobel Laureates William and Laurence Bragg, will b...

Pear Jam Books launches full-service publishing house

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:01:00 -0500

New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books is now a full-service publishing house. Pear Jam Books was originally established last year by author Jill Marshall to publish a children's book to raise money in ...

2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellows announced

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:01:50 -0500

New Zealand fiction writers David Lyndon Brown and Anna Taylor are the recipients of the 2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Brown and Taylor will each receive a NZ$20,000 (approximately A$15,480...

In Brief

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:01:30 -0500

Text to launch $12.95 Australian classics listText Publishing will publish a list of low-price classics similar to Penguin's Popular Penguin series and Random House's $12.95 classics. The list will la...

Around the World

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:21 -0500

Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N won't stock Amazon titles in storesNielsen research shows link between book sales and enrich...

Quote of the week

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:01:57 -0500

'You will not see flat pricing under agency (not if the publisher has half a retail mind). There will be days, weeks or even months when the price will drop, quite considerably in some instances, befo...

On Fancy Goods

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:01:38 -0500

On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at Text Publishing's new 'Australian Classics' list; Jon Page talks about ebooks, the agency model and ‘predatory pricing’; Blair Mahoney revi...

On tour

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:05 -0500

FebruaryKatherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Silent Fear) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (including regional).Carrie Tiffany, Picador (Mateship with Birds) Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.Janette...

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:25 -0500

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Bestsellers this week

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:01:01 -0500

Think Big (HarperCollins), Donald Trump and Bill Zanker's self-help book filled with personal stories from the authors' rise to the top of their fields, is first on the highest new entries chart. The ...

Most mentioned: this week in Media Extra

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:20 -0500

For a second week Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears (Hamish Hamilton) has received the most mentions in Media Extra. Author Alain de Botton, who tours Australia in late February, argues that religi...

Forthcoming events

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:30 -0500

Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:Midsumma Festival: 15 January to 5 FebruaryPerth International Arts Festival, WA: 10 February to 3 March Writers at the Conve...

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:57 -0500

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RiP Andrew McMillan

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:33 -0500

Andrew McMillan, Northern Territory author and journalist, has died aged 54. McMillan wrote for The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and NT News. His books include Strict Rul...