Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The 2010 Get Reading campaign will launch on 25 August with ‘the most comprehensive promotional campaign ever', says director Cheryl Akle. This year's campaign will again feature television commercials starring...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Paper Plus Taupo and Take Note Carterton were awarded the National Store of the Year awards at the Paper Plus Group gala dinner held in Rotorua, New Zealand on 5...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
This year's Songs for Stories concert to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project will feature performances from Dan Sultan and his band, Megan Washington, Goanna's Shane Howard, and many...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) has announced the winners of its 2010 Children's Book Awards. The winners are: LIANZA Russell Clark Award for a distinguished...

Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Think Australian, the rights/export magazine produced each year by Bookseller+Publisher to showcase Australian attendees at the Frankfurt Book Fair, will this year partner with international publishing industry news service Publishing...

Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Among the many international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:China: digital overtakes printGoogle: there are 129 million books in the worldWho will...

Wednesday, 11 August 2010
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week we interview Jessica Rudd, daughter of our former PM, whose novel Campaign Ruby (Text) features some remarkable similarities to recent political events.

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
The winners of the 23rd Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature have been announced.The main prize winner is Wendy Harmer for I Lost my Mobile at the Mall (Random)....

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Lili Wilkinson has been announced as the winner of the IBBY Ena Noel Award for Scatterheart (Black Dog Books).The biennial award was established in 1994 by IBBY Australia founding president...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Historian and political commentator Tony Judt has died, aged 62. UK-born, Judt spent much of his professional life in the US, but his main subject was the political history of...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
The 34th Galley Club Awards for Excellence were held in Sydney on 6 August. Serendip: My Sri Lankin Journey (Peter Kuruvita, Murdoch Books) was named Book of the Year, with...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
New role for HawthorneSusan Hawthorne, co-founder and director of Spinifex Press, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University.CBCA awards to be presented on 20...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Collins Booksellers has announced new franchise owners for its stores in Bendigo and Whitford City.Collins Bendigo, previously owned by Mandy Allen and recently placed into voluntary liquidation, has been taken...

Tuesday, 10 August 2010
This year's Byron Bay Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday after a thankfully sunny three days back at its ‘traditional' North Beach site, which had been a washout for the...

Monday, 9 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Peter...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Former Deputy Premier of Victoria Jim Kennan has died, aged 64.The Crime & Justice festival writes:‘Mary Dalmau and her colleagues on the organisational team of the Crime & Justice festival...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Jon Bauer's debut novel Rocks in the Belly (Scribe), about an eight-year-old boy and the volatile man he becomes, gained a great deal of media coverage this week and is...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Daylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 AugustWalkley Media Conference: 9-12 AugustRomance Writers of Australia National Conference:...

Monday, 9 August 2010
In Don't Blink (James Patterson & Howard Roughan, Century) an infamous mob lawyer is murdered at Lombardo's Steak House in New York and the assassin slips through the police's fingers....

Monday, 9 August 2010
Dymocks welcomed representives of 70 stores and a total of 200 delegates to its national conference, which ran from 1 to 4 August at the Grand Chancellor in Hobart.Dymocks CEO...

Monday, 9 August 2010
Richard Siegersma has stepped down as CEO of DA Information Services.Marek Palka has been appointed as the new CEO.A statement from DA said 'although no longer employed by DA, Richard...

Wednesday, 4 August 2010
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner was Physics in Focus Preliminary...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The winner of each category is awarded $10,000 with another $10,000 awarded for the book judged...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award has been announced. Booksellers throughout NZ were asked to nominate the books they have most enjoyed reading, selling...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Voting for the Australian SF ('Ditmar') Award for 2010 is now open, and will remain open until one minute before midnight Perth time on Wednesday 1 September.Nominated for best novel are:...

Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia's portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit for Cengage Learning with the...