Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The program for this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival, which runs from 17 to 21 September, has been released--with an exciting array of over 220 authors attending. The festival line-up this...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Stephenie Meyer is it this week. She has not just one title in the charts, but the top four spots in the Bestsellers. Her most recent release Breaking Dawn comes...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Customers of Landmark School Supplies can expect ‘business as usual', following the company's acquisition by Campion Education, according to managing director of Campion, James Cathro. ‘From the point of view...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Society of Editors (NSW) workshop; Preparing for the Accreditation Exam, 22 AugustAge Melbourne Writers Festival, Federation...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Be the first to see The Edge of Love--the film tie-in of The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Hachette Livre Australia) Thomas' lyrical, passionate, poetic letters to the women who...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
New Zealand biographer Dianne Haworth has died. Her works included Give a Man a Horse: the Remarkable Story of Sir Patrick Hogan; Tears in the Wind: The Lance O'Sullivan Story...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards was announced last Thursday 13 August. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes include: History Book (Faculty of Arts,...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
'Another teacher described the situation where the community cow had made herself comfortable in his classroom during his first week at school--his teacher training hadn't covered that scenario.'--Indigenous Literacy Project...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
A field trip to the Jawoyn region of the Northern Territory by representatives of the bookselling and publishing industry has highlighted both the positive benefits of the trade's Indigenous Literacy...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Chabon wins HugoBook on Mohammed's wife dropped over fears of violenceNielsen backs e-book ISBN standardRace and racism...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Playwright and memoirist Simon Gray, author of The Smoking Diaries, Year of the Jouncer and Last Cigarette, has died.

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Poet, author and politician Mahmoud Darwish has died aged 67. His works included Leaves of the Olive Tree, A Lover from Palestine and End of the Night.

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Scholastic Corporation, parent company of Scholastic Australia has reported a net loss of US$22.4 million (A$25.8 million) for the financial year to May. However, when the company's loss-making ‘continuities' business was...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The textbook and school stationery supplier Campion Education has acquired Landmark School Supplies. Campion Education has grown in recent years to include Bellbird Books and technical and business book supplier McGills,...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The annual Dymocks conference ran from Sunday 3 August to Tuesday 5 August, and had the largest turn-out yet, Dymocks managing director Don Grover told WBN. Besides owners from ‘virtually...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight has been propelled into first place in the Bestseller charts, which may well be due to the anticipation of her new title Breaking Dawn being released last...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2008 National Retail Forum and 2008 Retail Expo Australasia, 12-14 August, Sydney Alex Buzo Memorial...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Sydney Jewish Writers' FestivalThe second Sydney Jewish Writers' Festival will be held from 17 to 19 August, and will feature international guests such as Daniel Mendelsohn, Shifra Horn, Zeev Harvey,...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing were held in Sydney on Thursday, to honour the best books in the primary, secondary, TAFE and tertiary...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards was announced on Friday, 8 August, by Arts Minister Lynne Kosky at the State Library of Victoria. The 2008 Awards are...

Monday, 11 August 2008
HarperCollins Worldwide has announced its year-end financial results for the financial year to June 2008. The company reported full-year sales of US$1.39 billion (A$1.53 billion), an increase of three percent on...

Wednesday, 6 August 2008
'To be able to be relieved of the tyranny of feeding the machine at the bank or feeding the mortgage ... just to be able to get on with your...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the world blog in the past week:Rushdie to sue former bodyguard over bookBook trailer tops YouTubeS&S figures down in first halfBreaking Dawn breaks...