Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Anne Whelan has been appointed operations executive for Dymocks New Zealand. From 1 August, she will assume responsibility for all activities of the Dymocks network in New Zealand.Whelan is the...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Colin Cotterill, who lived and taught in Australia for many years, has been awarded the UK Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award, part of the first round...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Household names Kim McCosker and Rachel Bermingham have done it again. 4 Ingredients Gluten Free has hit the top of the Fastest Movers chart this week with a flourish and...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date--submissions for the Text Publishing Young Adult Prize, 31 July Reed Gift Fairs--Melbourne, 1-5...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
British author, illustrator and animator John Ryan has died, aged 88. He wrote 24 books in the ‘Pugwash' series and 11 in the ‘Noah's Ark' series, also The Very Hungry...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Australians Peter Porter and Emma Jones have made the shortlist for Britain's Forward Prizes for Poetry.Porter is nominated for the best poetry collection (worth £10,000 [$20,000]) for Better Than God...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The third MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) 37 South Market Books at MIFF was held on Thursday 23 July at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Books at MIFF gives publishers and...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:management buyout for Borders UK CUP creates global PoD listwriter arrested for 'breaking in' to his own...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
FictionRights to The Dead Path by Stephen M Irwin (Hachette) have sold to Germany and the UK. Children'sScholastic has sold the Taiwanese rights to Leaf by Stephen Michael King.

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Rawnsley AWRF 2010 artistic director; Rodda acting general managerJill Rawnsley, previously the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival director, will continue at the festival as artistic director in the festival's 10th...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
‘Further, the expansion of the books production industries over recent decades has attracted and held productive resources, notably skilled labour and capital, that have thereby been unavailable for use in...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The travel market is ‘increasingly challenging', according to Lonely Planet owner BBC Worldwide, which has released its annual results. The results are for the 2008/2009 full year, compared to the...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Author Gordon Burn, whose work explored boundaries between fact and fiction, and the dark side of celebrity, has died, aged 61. His books included Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son; Pocket Money;...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Online Australian bookseller Seekbooks has announced it will offer Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol for more than 60% off the $49.95 recommended retail price, at $18.99. ‘The release gives us...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
UK children's writer, critic and teacher Naomi Lewis has died, aged 97. Her publications include A Visit to Mrs Wilcox and countless reviews in the New York Times and Observer....

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Several educational publishers and campus booksellers have united in opposition to the Productivity Commission's recommendations on parallel importation restrictions (PIRs). ‘It is certainly disappointing that the [Commission] doesn't understand that...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The Bookshop in Sydney's Darlinghurst--a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) specialist bookstore--is celebrating 25 years in business. SX News asked The Bookshop's manager of 20 years Graeme Aitken how...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The Reader's Feast Crime & Justice Festival, held last weekend in Melbourne and now in its second year, proved ‘a great success', Reader's Feast's Mary Dalmau told WBN. Dalmau said...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The program for the 2009 Melbourne Writers' Festival (MWF), which will run from 21 to 30 August, was launched on Thursday 16 July. MWF organisers, participating writers, media and general...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Booksellers can download various web banners promoting the Indigenous Literacy Project ahead of the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 2 September. The Indigenous Literacy Committee intends the promotional...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The ‘bit lit' phenomenon continues with Stephenie Meyer devouring the top four places on this week's Bestseller chart. Lookout for handouts with this week's highest new entry 101 Ways to...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Hong Kong Book Fair, 22-28 JulyPoetry for the Poeple--Montana Poetry Day, NZ, 24 JulyNew Voices...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Frank McCourt, who turned his difficult Irish childhood and 30 years teaching in New York into the memoirs Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man, died Sunday July 19 in New...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Authors on tour in July, August and September: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins  (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the 50ft...

Monday, 20 July 2009
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has acquired the Redfern Legal Centre Publishing imprint and will be publishing the new edition of The Law Handbook and The Family Law Handbook;...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog (with many more to come!)Google settlement: what will happen if it's rejected?Anderson's Free free on Scribd, or is it?Blackwell...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
'What does the recommendation to review subsidies "with a view to better targeting of cultural externalities" mean. Anyone?'--Meanjin twitter feed, approximately 4.30pm yesterday.