Tuesday, 11 September 2007
If you have had a discussion recently with a man that seems more than usually knowledgeable on issues such as how to apply first aid to a snake bite, or...

Tuesday, 11 September 2007
The New York Times has reported that children's writer and author of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle, has died. She was 88.  

Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Anita Roddick, author and the founder of the Body Shop cosmetics store, has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Anita wrote numerous books including Business As Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey...

Tuesday, 11 September 2007
After more than twenty years as children's book publisher at Allen & Unwin, Rosalind Price has announced her retirement. A&U chairman Patrick Gallagher commented: 'After all the time that Rosalind...

Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Concern at commercialisation of textbooks in NSWThe New South Wales Opposition has expressed concerns that the State Government is allowing corporations to market their products in books used in schools....

Monday, 10 September 2007
The winners of the 2007 Hugo Awards were announced at the 65th World Science Fiction convention in Japan on 1 September.Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge, Tor) won the award for best...

Monday, 10 September 2007
The shortlists for the�NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. There are seven categories, each�worth $15 000.The�shortlisted titles are:Australian History PrizeBlack Founders: the Unknown Story of Australia?s First Black Settlers...

Thursday, 6 September 2007
Mister Pip�by New Zealander Lloyd Jones (Text/Penguin NZ) is one of six titles on the shortlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.The other shortlisted titles are:Darkmans�(Nicola Barker, Fourth Estate) The...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Faith & Duty: The John Anderson Story, Paul Gallagher's biography of the former Deputy Prime Minister (Random), has been announced as Christian Book of the Year for 2007 by the Australian Christian...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders' 2nd quarter: sales up, but still making a lossFamily settles 'Running with Scissors' lawsuitPrivate equity owners likely...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
'$195,000: that's almost a living wage for someone at Macquarie Bank ... almost'--MC John Doyle (aka 'Rampaging Roy Slaven') commenting on the total prize pool for the Victorian Premier's Literary...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Lonely planet has launched a trial of ‘Pick and Mix', a new product that enables travellers to purchase individual chapters from Lonely Planet guidebooks. More than 350 chapters from 35...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on Monday night.With a total prize pool of $195,000 awarded in 11 categories, Victorian Premier John Brumby described the awards as...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden’s Dangerous Book for Boys: Australian Edition proved to be a hit for Father’s Day, coming in at number two this week. HP stays at number...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Lesley Beaumont of John Wiley & Sons Australia writes: ‘It is with regret that we heard late last week of the passing of one of Wiley's leading investment authors, Austin...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
The Guardian reports that Julia Briggs, literary scholar and ‘champion of women’s writing and children's literature’, died on 16 August 2007.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
The 2007 Books Alive campaign, which ran nationally through the month of August, was a ‘strong' one, according to Books Alive project director Brett Osmond. 'The response from the media...

Monday, 3 September 2007
OUP acquires Beazer PublishingOxford University Press (OUP) has acquired Beazer Publishing. Beazer, founded in 1994 by Margaret Beazer, specialises in texts for Legal Studies and commerce subjects in Years 11...

Monday, 3 September 2007
After 10 days of panels, workshops, conversations and book launches, the 2007 Melbourne Writers' Festival wrapped up on Sunday 2 September. According to organisers, the last year at the festival's...

Monday, 3 September 2007
Following hot on the heels of the Melbourne Writers' Festival, Brisbane will next week play host to an impressive line-up of international and local authors as part of the Brisbane...

Monday, 3 September 2007
The winners of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards--Australia's premier prizes for crime writing--were announced on 29 August by the Crime Writers' Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Age and...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
'For most Amazon customers, a special order is a terrible customer experience'--Amazon exec Kurt Beidler on the 'need it now' attitude of his 66 million customers.

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
No real surprises this week, with some familiar books continuing to make their presence known. Harry Potter garners top spot again and creeping up at number three is the Australian...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Pan Macmillan) has been announced as the winner of this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, Britain's oldest literary prize.Byron Rogers won the nonfiction...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Kurt Beidler, the senior manager of business development for Amazon.com, is in Australia this week for meetings with publishers in Sydney and Melbourne, hosted by the Australian Publishers Association (APA).Beidler...