Tuesday, 7 August 2007
An Australia Council-hosted round table discussion of the study of Australian literature in schools and universities held in Canberra yesterday has recommended that the federal government should ‘consider establishing a...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
In a new issues paper, The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), the national body currently preparing a national accreditation scheme for the profession, has outlined the increased expenses involved in...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
The organisers of the speculative fiction festival Conflux have received funding from the Australia Council's Literature Board and Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) to promote Australian fantasy and science fiction authors at...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
The University of Melbourne has announced it will commission a short external review to ‘provide advice to the Meanjin board on the literary magazine's intellectual agenda, organisational structure, board membership...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Unaudited results for Cambridge University Press (CUP) for the year to 30 April show the business has experienced a doubling of profit for the second year in a row. Sandra...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Paul Heath, managing director of Reader's Digest Australia, has been named president of Asia Pacific region of the company's operations. The appointment follows a restructure of the company's international operations...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Audience numbers at the 2007 Byron Bay Writers Festival, which ran from 26 to 29 July were ‘slightly up on last year' according to festival director Jeni Caffin, just exceeding...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
The University of Western Australia (UWA) Press will discontinue its young adult list and has put on hold its publishing of children's books, pending a reassessment of the list. ‘What...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Thomson Learning has announced it will change its name to Cengage Learning. The name change follows the sale of Thomson Learning Australia to Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners in...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Mr Pip by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones (Text Australia/Penguin NZ) has been named as one of 13 titles on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize.This longlist was chosen...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
It's a Harry frenzy in the charts this week, as all seven volumes of the Harry Potter series make the Top 10. Other than our favourite wizard, the only other...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:• Last day of the Melbourne Reed Gift Fairs - 8th August • Retail Expo Australasia...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'J T Leroy' hoax author owes US$350,000More publishers and more books in the UKAll orders to Penguin...

Wednesday, 1 August 2007
'Ahh, Book Musk, it should be marketed as an aftershave!'--Simon Morton of Radio NZ, speaking at the Booksellers NZ annual conference last weekend.

Wednesday, 1 August 2007
The winner of the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award was also announced during the Booksellers NZ conference.The winner is Tramping in New Zealand: 40 of New Zealand's Best...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
The late New Zealand author Janet Frame was posthumously awarded the 2007 Montana award for Poetry on New Zealand's national poetry day, 27 July, for her collection The Goose Bath (Vintage).  The...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
The winners of this year's THORPE-Bowker New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the annual New Zealand book awards dinner on Sunday 29 July in Auckland.The dinner was the focal...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
It's no surprise to see the last instalment of the adventures of our favourite boy wizard heading this week's charts, but it's good to see that the Harry Potter backlist is...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:DK goes PoD with travel seriesGreen light for Bertrams/THE mergerUS colleges avoid piracy penaltiesPrinters await Adobe's response...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Gordon Cheers writes: James Young has photographed flowers and illustrated large horticultural books for the last 12 years. His specialist plant photography has taken James around the world 14 times...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
The Scholastic Corporation, parent company of Scholastic Australia, has announced its full-year results for 2006-2007. The company reported net income of $60.9 million ($A69.25 million), down from $68.6 (A$78 million) for...

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr has been appointed to the board of Dymocks.Dymocks' chairman John Forsyth said he was ‘delighted' that Carr accepted the invitation to join the board ‘at...