Monday, 19 May 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced changes to make the travel funding it provides to publishers ‘more flexible.' BOOKED: International Travel Fund for Publishers and Literary Agents is...

Monday, 19 May 2008
The overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes were announced on Sunday 18 May at the Franschloek Literary Festival in South Africa. The Book of Negroes by Canadian author...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The ABC has flatly denied a report in the Sydney Morning Herald that it would be closing its 43 stores around Australia. The report in the SMH and the Age...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Several big names are in the running for the Australian Literary Society's 2008 Gold Medal. The award for an 'outstanding Australian literary work', which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year,...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Tim Winton's lauded Breath gets pipped at the post by the relentless 4 Ingredients in the Bestseller charts this week, though it does come first in the Highest New Entries....

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Last day of the International Publishers Association's 28th Congress, Seoul, 15 MayAuckland Readers and Writers...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Charles Ellis, who served as president and CEO of John Wiley & Sons from 1990 to 1998, has died aged 72.

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Irish journalist and memoirist Nuala O’Faolain has died in Dublin aged 68. Her novels included My Dream of You and The Story of Chicago May.

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The public now has a chance to vote for ‘The Best of the Booker' after the shortlist for the one-off celebratory award was released on Monday 12 May. Overlooking the...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The Five Mile Press has issued an urgent recall of the title Killer in the Family by true crime author Lindy Cameron. The book explores 19 criminal cases including that...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Victoria may not be too far away from its own Hay on Wye. Currently boasting five bookshops for its 1000 residents, the picturesque Gold Rush town of Clunes is aiming...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Only six books were entered in this year's $7500 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, which was won by Randa Abdel-Fattah for Ten Things I Hate about Me (Pan). The novel...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The author of The Honey Spinner (Murdoch Books), a nonfiction look at honey production around the world, has won the Watermark Fellowship. Grace Pundyk will spend six weeks as a...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
New literary agency opens in SydneyA new literacy agency was launched in Sydney this week by the novelist and former Hickson Associates literary agent, Gaby Maher. The Naher Agency will...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
‘Large publishers are in a position to become better booksellers than some retailers, and this will be increasingly apparent with the take-up of electronic content.'--Andrew Crawford, managing director of online...

Monday, 12 May 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog this week:Borders UK chief upbeat about the future of printUK booksellers attack 'green excuse' on publishers' firm-sale plansDigital experimentation pays...

Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Paul Kenny, marketing director at Pan Macmillan, has announced his resignation. Kenny, who has been at Pan Macmillan for 14 years ‘almost to the day’ will finish at the publisher...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The APA celebrated its 60th anniversary last Wednesday, with a special dinner in Sydney. At the dinner, 21 publishing figures were honoured in the inaugural George Robertson Awards. Named after...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The shortlist for this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced. The shortlist is as follows: Chain Bookseller of the Year 2008, sponsored by The ECN GroupDymocks Sydney...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Australian crime author Michael Robotham has been announced as the ambassador for the 2008 Books Alive campaign. Robotham, whose first novel The Suspect sold more than 1 million copies, has...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Angus&Robertson has recently launched a rewards program, centered on a rewards card. The basic offer is that for a one-off $10 joining fee, members of the rewards program will receive...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Over 400 Pan Macmillan titles, including novels by Matthew Reilly, Di Morrissey, Ken Follet, Andy Griffiths and Wilbur Smith, have been added to Dymock?s digital books list at Dymocks.com.au. Dymocks...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Text Publishing has announced a new prize for writers of YA literature. The Text Young Adult Prize comprises a publishing contract with Text and a $10,000 advance against royalties. It...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Delegates to the Australian Publishers Association (APA) environmental workshop held in Sydney on Thursday 1 May, have agreed on several areas where the industry would benefit from working together to...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
This year's Indigenous Literacy Day campaign will be officially launched by patron Therese Rein at an event in Sydney today. The 2008 Indigenous Literacy Day, run by the Indigenous Literacy...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The 9th Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) National Conference and Expo wound up on Sunday, having run from 2 May. Held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, the conference featured...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) held its annual general meeting in Sydney last week. Marking the association's 60th anniversary, APA president Juliet Rogers told the meeting that the APA's membership...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The winners of the 2008 Kibble and Dobbie Awards were announced last night at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sydney. First-time novelist Carol Lefevre took out the Kibble Award...