Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Companion of the Order of Australia for BandlerIn addition to several other industry figures recognised in this year's Australia Day honours list, author Faith Bandler was awarded a Companion of...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
In rights news this week: SALESFictionAnne Beilby at Text reports the sale of The Beginner's Guide to Living (Lia Hills) to Motibo in Greece; Handling the Undead (John Ajvide Lindqvist)...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Reader's Digest has cut a number of positions, worldwide. A company spokesperson told Publisher's Weekly, the company would not be closing any businesses and that the approximately 280 redundancies (eight...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
The Dymocks bookselling chain has announced that it has acquired an 80% stake in Healthy Habits, a ‘30-strong Australian owned and operated' sandwich bar franchise. ‘Besides our organic growth through...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Merimbula Bookshop, an independent store on the far south coast of New South Wales, has been taken over this week by Michelle Delle Vergin and Mark Bolsius, who have renamed...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that Michael Campbell will not be renewing his contract as festival director. Campbell has directed the festival since 2006. In that time, audiences...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
The Sydney Writers' Festival has announced the appointment of Chip Rolley as a guest artistic director for 2010, with current director Wendy Were to return in 2011 following maternity leave.Rolley...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Natasha Lester was presented the TAG  Hungerford Award for fiction in Perth last week for her manuscript What is Left Over, After. Lester, who has had poetry and short fiction...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
To celebrate the announcement of Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year 2008, WBN is giving away 10 six-month subscriptions to the Macquarie Dictionary online! Each year, the clever people at...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'Scribble' - Canberra Young Readers' and Writers' Festival, Canberra, 6-7 FebruaryTo view these and more...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Australian author and photographer Jim Powe has died. His book Trains and Railways of Australia was released by New Holland in October last year.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
English historian and author Christopher Hibbert has died, aged 84. His books included The Destruction of Lord Raglan, George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 and George IV: Regent and King,...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Austrian writer Johannes M Simmel has died, aged 84. He was the author of The Stuff Dreams are Made Of and It Can’t Always Be Caviar.

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:PW editor-in-chief sackedBarry wins Costa iPhone 'will all but destroy traditional publishing'Feb release for Kindle 2.0?Amazon...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale (Longacre Press) has won the 2009 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award in New Zealand. Established in 1997 to commemorate the life and works of...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
On the Jellicoe Road (known as Jellicoe Road in the US) by Melina Marchetta (Viking) has won the 2009 Michael L Printz Award in the US. ‘This roller coaster ride...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
In rights news this week: Children'sClaire Pretyman at Scholastic reports the sale of The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas (Tony Wilson & Sue deGennar) to the UK and...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
The Productivity Commission has now received more than 120 submissions to its study on the laws governing the parallel importation of books in Australia. The study and attendant issues are...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of former Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Visontay as publisher of the newly formed ABC Books division of HarperCollins. Visontay will report to HarperCollins publishing...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
US novelist John Updike has died of lung cancer, aged 76. His most famous works were from his Rabbit series, including the novels Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest,...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Unless you have been living under a rock for while--which sounds rather enticing, not to say cool in this Melbourne heat--you will be familiar with Stephenie Meyer and her dominance...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American poet William DeWitt Snodgrass has died. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, Heart's Needle. Selected Poems: 1957-1987 was published in 1987 and Not...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Les Phillabaum, long-time director of Louisiana State University Press has died, aged 73. During his time at LSU Press he published A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, which...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American journalist and author Malcolm MacPherson, has died, aged 65. He wrote Roberts Ridge, reportage about one of the bloodiest battles of the war in Afghanistan, and Time Bandit about...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
British poet John Fairfax, who co-founded the creative writing community Arvon, has died, aged 78. Fairfax wrote Bone Harvest Done and Adrift on the Star-brow of Taliesin.

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American psychologist and author Stanley Fisher has died, aged 81. Fisher was the author of Discovering the Power of Self-Hypnosis.

Monday, 26 January 2009
Central Queensland poet and author Valentine Vallis has died. He wrote the poem 'The Ballad of Changi Chimes'. 

Monday, 26 January 2009
The recipients of some of the most prestigious awards in children's literature were announced on 26 January at an American Library Association mid-winter meeting in Denver.The 2009 winners of the...