Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Books Alive project director Brett Osmond addressed the ABA conference on Sunday, outlining the details of this year's campaign.The campaign is set to begin on 26 July, running through until...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
A select gathering of publishers, authors and booksellers farewelled departing Lothian Books owner and managing director Peter Lothian at O'Connell's Hotel in Melbourne last night, and toasted 118 years of...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released its 2005 bestsellers list. The list is compiled from a survey of APA member publishers and only counts ‘net trade sales made at...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
A number of people associated with the book industry have been recognised in the 2006 Queen's Birthday honours list.Mark Rubbo, co-owner of Mebourne's Readings bookshops, has received the Medal of...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), the national group being developed by the state Societies of Editors to create recognised professional accreditation for editors, has announced its initial pool of...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in the Delhi-based distributor and publisher Foundation Books, which will be renamed CUP India, reports the Bookseller.Foundation has been...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
The winners of the 2005 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards were announced last Friday night. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert by Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Further to last week's announcement of the Orange Prize (won by Zadie Smith), the £10,000 (A$23,600) Orange Award for New Writers has been presented to Naomi Alderman for Disobedience (Penguin),...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
A son and a granddaughter of American author John Steinbeck have won back all publishing rights to 10 of his early works, including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Zadie Smith has won the £30,000 (A$72,000) Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel, On Beauty (Hamish Hamilton). Smith reportedly wept as she received the prize, her first major...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Australian mountaineer Sue Fear is believed to have died while mountain-climbing in the Himalayas. Fear's memoir Fear No Boundary: The Road to Everest and Beyond (Lothian) was co-written with fellow...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
German-born author, broadcaster and La Trobe University sociology lecturer Werner Pelz has died in Melbourne, aged 84.

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The winners of the international and Canadian Griffin Poetry Prizes were announced in Toronto on 1 June. The international prize went to Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan University...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The finalists in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards have been announced, with 26 books selected across eight different categories. Finalists have also been announced in the Book Publishers...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The shortlist for the UK's most valuable nonfiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, was announced recently. On the shortlist are Untold Stories (Alan Bennet, Faber), The Sale of...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The winners of the Wilderness Society's annual Environment Awards for Children's Literature were announced on Monday. The Big Picture Book (John Long, illustrated by Brian Choo, A&U) took out best...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
A LETTER TO WEEKLY BOOK NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS ...Almost 35 years to the day since its first issue (pictured above), book industry news service the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) is now finally...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Worrells, the company administering the voluntary liquidation of remainder wholesaler Australian Book Centre (ABC), has released an update to creditors.The update advises that SV Partners have been appointed as ‘receivers...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Hachette Livre has announced that the UK-originated science fiction and fantasy imprint Orbit will be launched in Australia and in the US.Hachette expects that Orbit will be established in both...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Murdoch Books has secured worldwide rights to publish a book about the Beaconsfield miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but it...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Publishers and distributors that visit the Frankfurt or London Book Fairs are again warned to beware of correspondence from Austrian-based company Construct Data Verlag AG. WBN has received a letter...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The fourth Canberra Readers and Writers Festival, organised by the ACT Writers' Centre, will be held at the National Library of Australia from 25-27 August.With a line-up of about 40...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Distributor Brumby Books has announced that it has finalised distribution deals for a number of new overseas and local publishers, including Sounds True audiobooks, Amber Lotus Press and the Red...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Rose Senior, a lecturer at Curtin University in WA, has won the £2000 (A$4800) Ben Warren International House Trust Prize for The Experience of Language Teaching (CUP). The prize recognises...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Academic publisher Blackwell Publishing has been announced as one of the recipients of the International Headquarters (IHQ) Award. The award, established by the Singapore Economic Development Board, aims to encourage...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The shortlist for the UK-based Daggers awards for crime writing has been announced.There are six titles in the running for the main £20,000 (A$48,000) prize: The Chemistry of Death (Simon...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The judging panel for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The chair of the panel will be US literary critic Elaine Showalter, with novelists Nadine Gordimer (South...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Daytime TV queen Oprah Winfrey has reportedly been paid a record advance for a new book on her weight woes-no-one is prepared to say exactly how much, but pundits in...