Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Irina Dunn has announced her resignation from the NSW Writers' Centre, where she has been executive director for the last 15 years.Dunn told the centre's management committee that ‘she felt...

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
After almost 18 months of work, Automated Content Access Protocol--the code that book and newspaper publishers hope will provide them with a universal way of communicating permissions information to internet...

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Underbelly: The Gangland War stays at number one again this week as the TV series’ fate in Victoria rests in the hands of three Court of Appeal judges. Real or...

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Adelaide Writers Week to 7 MarchSocEds (NSW) AGM, Sydney, 4 MarchLeading Edge Books 2008 Conference,...

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Australian author and journalist Barry Galton has died aged 72. Galton was known for his books on the history of surf life saving.

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
William Buckley, author and founder of the American conservative magazine The National Review, has died aged 82.

Tuesday, 4 March 2008
The 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week got off to a 'record-breaking' start on Sunday, with visiting ex-pat Germaine Greer drawing an adoring crowd--and sales of her most recent book Shakespeare's Wife...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Operating profit at the Pearson Group rose 14% to £634m (A$1.3 billion) in 2007, the UK-based parent company of Penguin and Pearson Education has reported.Pearson Group CEO Marjorie Scardino hailed...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Online bookseller Amazon has launched a currency converter on its sites, allowing users to see the cost of items and shipping in their own currency instead of US dollars. The...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Total international revenue for Simon & Schuster increased 10% to US$886.1 million (A$943.4 million) in 2007, with operating income up 29% to US$88.1 million (A$93.8 million). The ‘exceptionally strong' results...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Total international revenue at Harlequin fell 2% to C$462.7 million (A$498.5 million) in 2007, while operating income rose 7% to C$60.6 million (A$65.3 million). Torstar, the romance publisher's Canadian parent...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Poet John Tranter has taken out the South Australian Premier's Award, announced as part of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Tranter was recognized for Urban Myths: 210 poems...

Monday, 3 March 2008
Seven leading Australian writers will be in China from 9 to 14 March for ‘Australian Writers Week'--an inaugural series of talks, workshops and forums sponsored by the Australian Embassy. The writers--Lily...

Monday, 3 March 2008
The 10 finalists in this year's Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The Complete Stories by Australia's David Malouf (Random House) and Mister Pip by New Zealand's Lloyd Jones (Text) were...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Hachette Livre Australia has announced an urgent recall of actress Kathleen Turner's biography Send Yourself Roses, as a ‘precautionary measure', following legal action taken by actor Nicholas Cage in relation...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
The TV series may have been banned in Victoria, but Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester and Andrew Rule has hit number one in both the bestsellers and the...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Last day of the Reed Gift Fairs, Sydney, 27 FebruaryClosing date for submission of entries...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
French writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet has died aged 85. He helped found the 'New Novel' school in the 1950s and wrote more than a dozen novels and screenplays.

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council have announced the 12 editors who have been selected to attend the fifth biennial Residential Editorial Program (REP), to...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Australian cocktail guru Hayden Wood will join Kiwi food writers Julie Biuso and Annabel Langbein and 13 other guests from around the world in a series of demonstrations at the...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
The organisers of the Man Booker Prize have announced that a one-off Best of the Booker award will be presented this year to ‘the best novel to have won the...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
It was a bookish Oscars ceremony this year, with three of the five films nominated for best picture at this year's Academy Awards being based on novels. No Country for...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
You will soon be able to subscribe to Thorpe-Bowker's Weekly Book Newletter and Media Extra services--or renew your subscription--online, following the launch of a new subscription management module to Bookseller+Publisher Online, due to...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Random drops DRM on audiobooksUK indie publishers flourishHas Reed already found a buyer for RBI?Countdown to UK's...

Monday, 25 February 2008
Max Barry's novel Company and Barry Heard's Vietnam memoir Well Done, Those Men, both published by Scribe, are Victoria's favourite summer reads, according to the State Library of Victoria (SLV).  Now...

Monday, 25 February 2008
International publisher Parragon has acquired the publishing division of Funtastic. Fourteen Funtastic publishing staffers have been made redundant, with the remaining 12 due to move to Parragon’s South Yarra office next...

Monday, 25 February 2008
The Anglo-Dutch media group Reed Elsevier has announced plans to sell its £1b (A$2.04 billion) business magazine division, Reed Business Information (RBI). Details of the sale--which will include the US publishing...

Monday, 25 February 2008
Quarto, the London-based parent company of Australian book packager Global Book Publishing, has announced its earnings for 2007, reporting a growth in total revenue of 7% to £100.1 million (A$212...

Monday, 25 February 2008
NZ Post Book Awards shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards For Children and Young Adults has been announced. Three of this year's finalists--Andrew Crowe, Gavin...