Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Historian and political commentator Tony Judt has died, aged 62. UK-born, Judt spent much of his professional life in the US, but his main subject was the political history of...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
The 34th Galley Club Awards for Excellence were held in Sydney on 6 August. Serendip: My Sri Lankin Journey (Peter Kuruvita, Murdoch Books) was named Book of the Year, with...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
New role for HawthorneSusan Hawthorne, co-founder and director of Spinifex Press, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University.CBCA awards to be presented on 20...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Collins Booksellers has announced new franchise owners for its stores in Bendigo and Whitford City.Collins Bendigo, previously owned by Mandy Allen and recently placed into voluntary liquidation, has been taken...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
This year's Byron Bay Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday after a thankfully sunny three days back at its ‘traditional' North Beach site, which had been a washout for the...

Monday, 9 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Peter...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Former Deputy Premier of Victoria Jim Kennan has died, aged 64.The Crime & Justice festival writes:‘Mary Dalmau and her colleagues on the organisational team of the Crime & Justice festival...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Jon Bauer's debut novel Rocks in the Belly (Scribe), about an eight-year-old boy and the volatile man he becomes, gained a great deal of media coverage this week and is...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Daylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 AugustWalkley Media Conference: 9-12 AugustRomance Writers of Australia National Conference:...

Monday, 9 August 2010
In Don't Blink (James Patterson & Howard Roughan, Century) an infamous mob lawyer is murdered at Lombardo's Steak House in New York and the assassin slips through the police's fingers....

Monday, 9 August 2010
Dymocks welcomed representives of 70 stores and a total of 200 delegates to its national conference, which ran from 1 to 4 August at the Grand Chancellor in Hobart.Dymocks CEO...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Richard Siegersma has stepped down as CEO of DA Information Services.Marek Palka has been appointed as the new CEO.A statement from DA said 'although no longer employed by DA, Richard...

Wednesday, 4 August 2010
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner was Physics in Focus Preliminary...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The winner of each category is awarded $10,000 with another $10,000 awarded for the book judged...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award has been announced. Booksellers throughout NZ were asked to nominate the books they have most enjoyed reading, selling...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Voting for the Australian SF ('Ditmar') Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday 1 September.Nominated for best novel are:...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia's portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit for Cengage Learning with the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold True Spirit (Jessica Watson) to the US in a pre-empt, Germany at auction and also to France and Korea; Opening the...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Barnes & Noble for saleRandom House: ebooks to be '10% of US sales'UK publishers...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
James Bennett has announced the retirement of promotions coordinator Annette Onorato.Onorato, who is retiring after more than 30 years with the company, will finish on 27 August. ‘We would like...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Film producer Elliot Kastner has died, aged 80. He adapted many novels to film including Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare, William Inge’s Bus Riley’s Back in Town, Iris Murdoch’s A...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
‘It's not easy being a trade publisher in Australia these days [...] Trade is terrible [...] retailing in general is now in the worst state that many proprietors and employees...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, we round up the winners of this year's New Zealand Book Design Awards, meet debut novelist Jon Bauer, author of Rocks in the...