Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Bernard Smith, renowned art historian and critic, has died aged 94. Smith taught at the University of Melbourne and was art critic for the Age before being appointed founding chair...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Darren Lockyer's self-titled autobiography (Random House), said to reveal the people, places and events which have shaped the rugby league icon's life and career, is first on the bestsellers chart and...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Rachel Edwards reviews Babylon (Stephen Sewell, Victory), Portia Lindsay reviews Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry (ed by Melinda Tankard...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined forces with authors' groups in the US and Quebec and eight individual authors to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Library supplier James Bennett has announced it has partnered with ebook supplier Ebrary in Australia. In a statement, James Bennett said libraries could now ‘seamlessly integrate Ebrary's ebooks into their...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has thanked all members of the Australian book community who participated in the fifth annual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) on Wednesday 7 September. ILF executive...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Hachette Australia has announced changes to its Adult sales and marketing divisions, resulting in 'the net loss of six permanent jobs', according to managing director Malcolm Edwards. Under the changes, the...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
The Australian Literary Review (ALR) will be published for the last time in October, reports Crikey. ALR editor Luke Slattery told Crikey that the monthly supplement, published by the Australian,...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Popular children's author Emily Rodda, former national gallery director Betty Churcher and debut-fiction author Anna Funder topped the bestseller list at this year's Brisbane Writers Festival, reflecting a strong line-up...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
International publisher McGraw-Hill has announced that the business will be divided into two companies in 2012. As part of a 'Growth and Value Plan' approved by the board of directors,...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Faber finance director killed in Kenya; wife kidnappednovelist Houellebecq 'goes missing' before book tourUS...

Monday, 12 September 2011
Readings to donate 10% of profits to Readings FoundationReadings has announced that it will increase its annual contribution to The Readings Foundation, with the bookseller to donate 10% of its...

Monday, 12 September 2011
The organisers of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, have announced a new partnership with the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Group), which will see...

Monday, 12 September 2011
The program for this year's International Literature Festival Berlin, which was launched on 7 September, focusses on the literature and culture of the Asian-Pacific region. Among the Australian and New Zealand writers...

Wednesday, 7 September 2011
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Random House has sold The Butterfly Effect (Dannielle Miller) to China.Children's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to books 4 to 6 of ‘The Phoenix...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Rod Gibson, writer, poet and performer affectionately known as the ‘Poet Lorikeet of the north coast', has died aged 60. Gibson wrote poetry, short stories, novels, film scripts, and plays...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Booksellers, publishers, libraries, schools and other organisations across the country will celebrate the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 7 September 2011. At the Brisbane Writers Festival Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) founder...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The winners of this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Brisbane on 6 September. The winning titles in the book-related categories are:Fiction Book Award ($25,000)Reading Madame Bovary (Amanda...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Eloise Keating reviews House of Sticks (Peggy Frew, Scribe) and Clare Hingston reviews The Golden Door (Emily Rodda, Scholastic).

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape)Jamrach's Menagerie (Carol Birch, Text)The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt,...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Bloodlines (Rachael Meade, Razorbill) is the first book in the 'Bloodlines’ teen vampire romance series, a spin-off of Penguin’s ‘Vampire Academy’ series. The protagonist is a girl called Sydney, who...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Screen Queensland will launch a $40,000 development package for a literary work to be adapted for film or television at the 2011 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which begins today, 7...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
A number of prominent Australian authors are among 59 signatories to an open letter sent to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) protesting proposed changes to the broadcaster's...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The board of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine will meet in two weeks to develop a strategy to keep producing the magazine, following the decision by Arts Tasmania last week...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Faber has announced a partnership with US distributor Perseus that will offer digital distribution services to publishers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. ‘Faber Factory Powered...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
'As the Site Merchandiser for Google eBooks Australia, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to build and maintain the merchandising program across all of our Australian retail...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
While Amazon extends its global reach with its acquisition of the Book Depository, for several home-grown online booksellers, it's the local touch that's proving a winner, reports Eloise Keating in...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:2000 UK bookshops have closed in the past six yearsprofits surge at Random Housenew...