Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Angus & Robertson Ashfield will be closing at the end of the year, after being run as a franchise for eight years by Samira Rezai-nia. Prior to the Ashfield store,...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
One of the highest paying literary awards in the world, the Dylan Thomas Prize (worth £60,000/A$140,000), has been awarded to Melbourne-raised writer Nam Le, author of short story collection The...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The ubiquitous James Patterson has struck again, with novel Cross Country gracing the top of both the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts this week. Australian author Di Morrissey who...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Northern Notes Writers Festival 2008, 7-16 NovemberSociety of Editors NSW workshop: InDesign for Editors, Sydney,...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Writer and artist William Wharton (real name Albert de Aime) has died. His novels included Birdy, Dad and A Midnight Clear.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
American literary and cultural critic John Leonard has died. He was 69.

Monday, 10 November 2008
The annual Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference was ‘very successful', ACPA president Graeme Connolly told WBN. The conference, which was held from 5 to 7 of November at the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Westfield charges shock UK retailers New CEO for Reed Elsevier B&N heads warns of tough times...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The five titles shortlisted for the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award have been announced. The award, Australia's richest, is open to any book-length work published in print or electronically in the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The category winners of this year's Western Australian Premier's Book Awards have been announced. The awards recognise the best 2007 book in each category by a Western Australian author or...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Ligare launches new Digital Print FacilityLigare will launch a new ‘state of the art Digital Print Facility (DPF)' at its Riverwood plant on 19 November. ‘Despite the current economic climate,...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Random House Australia has launched a YouTube channel with short book previews, teasers, author introductions and interviews. Random House marketing director Brett Osmond said the channel was about enriching the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that its CEO Jim Alexander has been elected to the Board of the international membership body for rights management organisations. The International Federation...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Lady Cutler Award, which recognises distinguished service to children's literature, primarily in NSW, has been awarded in 2008 to Di Bates. ‘I was so overcome when the phone call...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Nineteen delegates from Scotland and northern UK will arrive in Melbourne on 9 November to meet with Melbourne's literary community. The delegates are from trust organisations, libraries, publishers, festivals, magazines,...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 CAL Waverley Award for Literature, also known as ‘The Nib', has been announced. This is the first year that Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has been...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
American author Michael Crichton has died, aged 66. Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, as well as Congo and Disclosure, all of which were adapted into films.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The results for the Bestsellers are in for this week and Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict has made it to number one. The irrepressible Stephenie Meyer and Twilight comes in...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey, 1-9 NovemberInky Awards night, State Library of Victoria, 6 November Closing...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Veronica Sumegi, publisher, Brandl & Schlesinger writes: 'It is with great sorrow that we let you know that Jacob G Rosenberg died on Thursday morning in Melbourne, after a heart...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Pulitzer-prize winning US author Studs Terkel has died, aged 96. His books included Division Street: America and For The Good War: An Oral History of World War II.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Milton Katseles, acting teacher, director and founder of Skylight Books in Los Angeles has died, aged 75.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Crikey publisher Eric Beecher will head up the inaugural board of the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. The centre is part of Melbourne's winning UNESCO City of Literature bid....

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Wendy Were has announced that she will not be renewing her contract as festival director of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) for the 2010 festival and beyond. ‘While delighted at...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
‘You can't just retreat ... and hide and cower until it's all over. You still have to assume there's a market for good books'--Scribe Publications' Henry Rosenbloom on the global...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Google to settle Book Search lawsuitsCanada again suffers from exchange-rate woesPublishers look to the Middle EastOprah endorses...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Man Asia Literary Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The five books are Alfred A Yuson's The Music Child; Miguel Syjuco's Illustrado;...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
A booklover with a background in retail, management and software development has launched a new online bookshop, The Mighty Tiny Book Shop. While the store began as a way for...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
The winners of the 2008 New South Wales children's choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs,) were announced on 22 October. Authors such as Duncan Ball, Ursula Dubosarsky,...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
The winners of the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and History Fellowships have been announced. The awards were presented by the NSW Premier and Minister for the Arts, Nathan Rees...