Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Australian Literary Agents Association (ALAA) has written a letter to the Prime Minister arguing against any change to Australia's territorial copyright rules. The letter, written by ALAA president Jenny...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize....

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the outcome of a strategic review, which will include the redundancies of two staff from the association's Sydney office: deputy CEO Janice Fewin...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
All those folks who have been waiting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to come out in paperback have rocketed said book to the top of the Bestseller and...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Entries close for Hawkesbury River Writers' Prose Fiction Competition, 31 JulyBook launch for Ever, Manning...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Children's author and painter Richard Kidd has died, aged 56. His books included Almost Famous Daisy!, Monsieur Thermidor: A Fantastic Fishy Tale and The Giant Goldfish Robbery.

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Randy Pausch, computer scientist and author of the bestseller The Last Lecture has died, he was 47.

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
'Over the course of four years I made time to read all of the Harry Potter books out loud to my daughters. If I can do that and run for...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The 2008 Books Alive ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' List will be released to the public in News Limited newspapers around the country this Sunday 27 July. The Sunday...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Having only started operations in New Zealand last year, at the invitation of Booksellers NZ and the Book Publishers Association of NZ (BPANZ), Nielsen BookScan was able to present some...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Remember to check our our Around the World blog for links to booktrade stories from across the globe.Click here to see Around the World.

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Anna McFarlane, children's publisher at Pan Macmillan, has resigned ‘to pursue other interests, including children's book-related film and television projects'. McFarlane's new company, which she co-owns with Garth Nix, is...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The Booksellers NZ annual conference concluded on Monday night with the presentation of New Zealand's premier book prizes, the Montana Awards.Charlotte Grimshaw (pictured, photo courtesy of Random NZ) was the...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The longlist for the 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize was announced on Tuesday. Among the longlisted titles is Leave Me Alone, Chengdu by Chinese author Murong Xuecun, for which Allen...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The Sunday night of the recent Booksellers New Zealand conference saw the Penguin NZ-sponsored conference dinner and industry awards, held in Wellington's impressively restored Town Hall, which was decked out...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The 87th annual Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Wellington on Sunday and Monday. While the general feeling in the NZ trade is that times are tough--one industry veteran...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night. The winner of the $5000 Eureka Street/Reader's...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The inaugural Crime & Justice festival, presented by Reader's Feast Bookshop, was held at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent over the weekend.The festival, which combines the two themes of crime fiction and...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Churchill fellowship to State Library of South Australia directorThe director of the State Library of South Australia Alan Smith has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship in the recent announcement from...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Harry Potter on the top of the charts again?! Hold onto your hats, it's not a new one from J K Rowling but her most recent--Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'A Night of Wine and Crime', Mornington, VIC, 24 JulyByron Bay Writers' Festival, Byron Bay,...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) has won the 10th Anniversary BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction.Rosie Boycott, chair...

Wednesday, 16 July 2008
After a long process of refinement the first accreditation examination for editors wishing to be accredited by the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is scheduled to be held in Sydney...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The UK publication Publishing News announces it is to closeRandom House sells its US book clubsPublishing revenue down...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
In the past week the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has met with both Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett and Brett Gale, chief of staff to the assistant treasurer and...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The BBC, which last year acquired a 75% controlling share in Lonely Planet, has released its annual report, which shows the travel publisher made a loss of £2.1 million (A$4.3...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Call to ban Nitschke bookThe sisters of an Australian woman who committed suicide using the drug Nembutal, have called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to ban Philip Nitschke's book Killing Me...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The Waverley Council's literature award, formerly known as the Westfield/Waverley Library Award will now be known as ‘The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. The new name reflects the...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Germaine Greer and Augusten Burroughs will open this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. Greer, whose essay On Rage is due to be published by MUP in August, will deliver a keynote...