Tuesday, 5 May 2009
The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival kicks off next Wednesday 13 May, running until 17 May. Guests include Debra Adelaide, Monica Ali, Tash Aw, Mohammed Hanif, New Yorker senior editor...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Parallel importation debate continuesMainstream media coverage of the debate surrounding the Productivity Commission's study of parallel importation continued this week, with an op ed piece from Dymocks board member Bob...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
The annual Clunes Book Town event held from 2 to 3 May attracted ‘a very good turnout' and saw the town overrun with secondhand books, according to publisher Rose Michael...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Christian book and music distributor CMCA has announced the establishment of a new distribution arm, Independent Distribution Solutions (IDS). IDS Oceania, based in Geelong, will offer warehousing, order fulfilment and...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
In rights news this week: FictionRandom House has sold Cemetery Lake by Paul Cleave to France; previous licenses include the United Kingdom and Germany. Text has sold Russian rights to...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
This year's Indigenous Literacy Project campaign will kick off with an official launch by patron Therese Rein on 26 May. The morning event, to be held at Customs House in Sydney,...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Penguin Australia has announced it will publish Peter Carey's forthcoming novel Parrot and Olivier in America. Carey, whose most recent novels His Illegal Self, Theft and My Life as a...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Ron Abbey's Bookhouse, which moved online in 2006, has closed. The bricks and mortar store was opened by Ron Abbey in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, in 2000,...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
True Colours by Lisa Davies graces the top of the Highest New Entries chart this week. The biography centres on Lauren Huxley who was beaten in her home by a...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Buenos Aires International Book Fair, 23 April - 11 MayClosing date for The Indie Award,...

Tuesday, 5 May 2009
American novelist and academic Marilyn French has died, aged 79. She wrote seven books including The Women's Room and A Season in Hell.  

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham (Walker Books), has been shortlisted for the 2009 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Graham previously won the award in 2002....

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Dymocks has closed its New Zealand head office, resulting in the redundancies of general manager Andrew Howard and retail business manager Doris Mousdale. ‘At the end of the day I'm...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Authors on tour in May: David Ebershoff, Random House (The 19th Wife) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, HarperCollins(The Thing Around Your Neck)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Tash Aw, HarperCollins (Map of the Invisible World) Lisa...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
In rights news this week: FictionLittle, Brown has acquired rights to George Dawes Green's Ravens, for international publication in August 2009. Jaki Arthur of Hachette Australia calls it ‘awful and harrowing...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Google settlement delayed until SeptemberAmazon buys Lexcycle/StanzaCanadian e-reader platform attracts 100,000 users in 160 countriesDuffy to be...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Michael J Fox, he of Family Ties and Back to the Future TV and film fame, comes number one in the Highest New Entries this week with Always Looking Up:...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Buenos Aires International Book Fair, 23 April-11 MayAustralian Publishers Association AGM, Melbourne, 30 AprilThe George...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Australian authors Margo Lanagan and Julia Leigh are among the finalists for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards (US), given for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Hinemoana Baker has been announced as Queensland's 2009 Poet-in-Residence. New Zealand poet, musician, producer and creative writing teacher Baker will be based in Queensland from July to September.Premier Anna Bligh...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
The 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) program has been launched. The festival, which will take place from 22 to 31 May in Melbourne, will feature a variety of panels, launches,...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Warhaft leaves the Monthly Black Inc. publisher Morry Schwartz has announced the departure of Sally Warhaft, former editor of the Monthly magazine, which is also owned by Schwartz. ‘Sally and...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Leonie Wood has been awarded the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for Funny Business: The Rise and Fall of Steve Vizard (A&U).Wood was awarded the prize, worth $30,000, at...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Richard Samson is the publisher's new general manager for the Asia Pacific region. ‘Richard has a very strong track record in book sales...

Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Collins Booksellers has announced that its Book City stores will re-brand to Collins Booksellers, commencing in June. ‘At this year's conference, Collins Booksellers announced the group would adopt a single...