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...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon fights NY tax lawIs Olsen about to leave Random US?‘Down River' tops Edgar AwardsNY...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
The popularity of 4 Ingredients continues, with the title staying at number one this week, making two weeks at the top, closely followed by Marian Keyes’ This Charming Man. Eckhart Tolle’s A New...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: In the First Person conference, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 10-11 MayInternational Publishers Association's 28th...

Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Bob Sessions from Penguin writes: When John Hooker died suddenly from pneumonia, Australian publishing and writing lost a true 'one off'. While he gave a good impression of a hard-drinking,...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
'Five Bells' up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia's best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor's son, Paul, plans to use the proceeds from selling...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
The chairman of Reed Elsevier Jan Hommen has hailed a ‘year of significant achievement and strategic development' for the multinational, despite revenue from Elsevier textbooks dropping £18 million pounds to...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
HarperCollins UK will embrace e-publishing in earnest this September, CEO Victoria Barnsley has announced. Come September, the company plans to begin publishing in print and e-format simultaneously, and make over...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Registrations for the 2008 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference are still open--delegates who register now will avoid the late fee. This year's conference will be held over three days, 15-17...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
4 Ingredients by Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham has crept back to the top of the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers chart, thus knocking Marian Keyes' This Charming Man off...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Publishers Association Annual General Meeting, 30 April CBCA 9th National Conference and Expo, 1-4...

Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Journalist, human rights advocate and author Pamela Bone has died aged 68. She was an Age columnist for 20 years.

Monday, 28 April 2008
The shortlists for this year's Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Carnegie Medal nominees:Gatty's Tale (Kevin Crossley-Holland, Orion)Ruby Red (Linzi...

Monday, 28 April 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Nabakov's last work to be publishedHarperCollins UK announces e-book launch digital rights battles loomlayoffs at Thomas NelsonHarlequin signs...

Tuesday, 22 April 2008
'I never ever once wanted to stop Mr. Vander Ark from doing his own guide--ever ever [...] Do your book, but please, change it so it does not take as...

Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Encylopedia Brittanica now free for bloggersRomance writer dumped for cheatingFolding maps to be recalled in UKPenguin classics...

Tuesday, 22 April 2008
As predicted here last week, Marian Keyes has won the duel with Jodi Picoult and takes out number one position this week with This Charming Man in the Bestseller and...