Tuesday, 4 August 2009
The program for the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 9 to 13 September, has been announced. The theme of this year's festival is ‘The Power of the Word',...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
‘One bookseller in Australia took the children's book award sticker off The Red Tree as he felt he could sell more that way, and sold an extra 30-40 copies a...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Mary Sangster of the Children's Bookshop, Christchurch; Jerome Gauder of Whitcoulls' and Emma Radcliffe of Craig Potton Publishing joined the board of Booksellers New Zealand at the New Zealand AGM, held...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Scholastic Corporation, the parent company of Scholastic Australia, has announced that operating income in its ‘international' segment, which includes Australia, has declined from US$42.3 million (A$51.3 million) in 2007/08 to...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
At the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) AGM held on Sunday as part of the Booksellers New Zealand national conference, Adrian Keane was appointed president, replacing Tony Fisk...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
This year's Booksellers New Zealand national conference closed with the presentation of this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards at a gala dinner at Auckland Museum on Monday night. The...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
American author E Lynn Harris has died, aged 54. His books included Invisible Life, A Love of My Own, and What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Booksurge and Amazon to sell 400,000 titles scanned by GoogleUK Kindle launch 'this Autumn' (northern hemisphere)POD and...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Lindfield Bookshop in Lindfield, NSW was the target of vandalism in the past week. A wheelie bin was set alight and placed next to the back of the shop where...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Australia-based author J M Coetzee is on the 2009 Man Booker longlist, for Summertime (Knopf), which is released in Australia in September. Coetzee is one of only two novelists to have won...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
John Wiley has signed up with Attributor, an online tracking service which helps to prevent unlawful use of its authors' content on the web. Wiley's director of corporate communications, Susan...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Hong Kong Book Fair finished yesterday, 28 July, having run from 22 July. The Australian Publishers Association (APA), with assistance from CAL, Austrade and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council,...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Authors on tour in July, August, September and October: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins  (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Hollier appointed new manager of Monash University ePressNathan Hollier has been appointed the new manager of Monash University ePress. Hollier has extensive experience in the publishing industry. Monash University ePress...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The Scribo Group yesterday announced the appointment of its sales and marketing team, in line with the recent announcement of the integrated warehousing operation in Adelaide.  Jon Attenborough has been...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The CAL Scribe Fiction Prize is a new unpublished manuscript prize for writers over 35, who may or may not have been published before.The winner will receive a publishing contract...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Anne Whelan has been appointed operations executive for Dymocks New Zealand. From 1 August, she will assume responsibility for all activities of the Dymocks network in New Zealand.Whelan is the...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Colin Cotterill, who lived and taught in Australia for many years, has been awarded the UK Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award, part of the first round...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Household names Kim McCosker and Rachel Bermingham have done it again. 4 Ingredients Gluten Free has hit the top of the Fastest Movers chart this week with a flourish and...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date--submissions for the Text Publishing Young Adult Prize, 31 July Reed Gift Fairs--Melbourne, 1-5...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
British author, illustrator and animator John Ryan has died, aged 88. He wrote 24 books in the ‘Pugwash' series and 11 in the ‘Noah's Ark' series, also The Very Hungry...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Australians Peter Porter and Emma Jones have made the shortlist for Britain's Forward Prizes for Poetry.Porter is nominated for the best poetry collection (worth £10,000 [$20,000]) for Better Than God...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The third MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) 37 South Market Books at MIFF was held on Thursday 23 July at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Books at MIFF gives publishers and...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:management buyout for Borders UK CUP creates global PoD listwriter arrested for 'breaking in' to his own...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
FictionRights to The Dead Path by Stephen M Irwin (Hachette) have sold to Germany and the UK. Children'sScholastic has sold the Taiwanese rights to Leaf by Stephen Michael King.

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Rawnsley AWRF 2010 artistic director; Rodda acting general managerJill Rawnsley, previously the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival director, will continue at the festival as artistic director in the festival's 10th...