Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Georgia Richter to the position of publisher, with responsibility for the adult fiction and poetry lists. ‘Georgia is well-known in the literary community in Western Australia,...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it is partnering with the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study and Thorpe-Bowker to undertake ‘an online survey of publishing activity and expectations...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Twilight is sitting pretty at number three in the Bestsellers, as Stephenie Meyer keeps the chart afloat with four of her titles in the top eight. The top position goes...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 15-19 OctoberBelgrade International Book Fair, Serbia, 20-26 OctoberTo view these and...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Ron Hanby, director of gay and lesbian sales at Bookazine (in America), has died. Before joining Bookazine, Hanby worked at Waldenbooks, B Dalton Bookseller and Encore Books.

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
‘We're surrounded by savage booksellers hungry and desperate to indent everything in sight. Their whole perverted purpose is quite simple--it's to eat us until we die'--former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The iPhone is beating the Kindle as a popular e-book readerFirst pictures of the new KindleSony launches the...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In his first posts the former...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Learning  Media, the New Zealand company responsible for the publication, production, marking and sale of educational materials ‘particularly to the Ministry of Education', anticipates some job losses, reports the New...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
The winners of this year's New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Receiving $60,000 each for their contribution to New Zealand Literature were Lloyd Jones (for...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Brisingr by the young Christopher Paolini has come up trumps in the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers charts this week. Top spot in the Highest New Entries goes to footballers...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date for the Age short story competition, 10 OctoberThe 2008 Davitt Awards, Melbourne, 10...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
American illustrator Dirk Zimmer has died aged 64. Zimmer illustrated nearly 40 books and was best known for such works as In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories,...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
American poet Hayden Carruth has died, he was 87. Carruth, who wrote more than 30 books, won the 1996 National Book Award for Poetry for his collection Scrambled Eggs &...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Adelaide Caroline Marston Trigg, co-founder of the Haunted Book Shop in Alabama, USA has died. She was 89. The store was named after the Christopher Morley novel of the same...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Family, friends and many colleagues from the book trade joined Michael Zifcak (pictured with his wife Ludmila) in Melborune last week to celebrate his 90th birthday. The former Collins Booksellers...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Book City Glendale and Book City Lake Macquarie have closed. Both were run by franchisee Jean-Marc Biram. Book City Mackay has also closed. Book City Horsham ceased trading as a...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the details of a new prize to commemorate John Button. The most popular article published in ABR in the previous year will be...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Independent booksellers of Australia have voted Tim Winton's Breath (Hamish Hamilton) their inaugural ‘Indie' Award winner for 2008. The author of the ‘Best Australian Book' receives $19,000, as donated by...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate that while overall retail sales rose in August, sales in many areas declined. ‘Retail sales rose 0.6% in August, seasonally adjusted,...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Fire at UK publisher 'a terrorist act'No damages allowed in Tolkien lawsuitFriedman asks readers to 'complete' his...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Australian books make up a good percentage of Angus & Robertson's ‘Top 100' Book list, announced today. Twenty-two spots are taken by Australian books; Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief (Picador)...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
David Jones has appointed Debbie Nicholas as national book buyer. Nicholas, who replaces Katrina Ross, commences today. The department store chain has also announced the launch of its David Jones...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
The Five Mile Press is re-releasing A Killer in the Family (Lindy Cameron and Fin J Ross), after legal considerations prompted the publisher to recall the title earlier this year....

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Peter Davis, marketing manager for Hema Maps for the past 20 years, has announced his resignation, to start the new consultancy business World Mapman Solutions. ‘I am planning to do...

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
As expected, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr has struck gold in the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts, starring at number one in both. Which goes to show that fantasy and dragons...