Monday, 11 February 2008
The Literature Board of the Australia Council has announced a new one-off grant for established writers and picture book/graphic novel illustrators. The $40,000 ‘Breaking new ground' grant will support the...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
After 35 years with Macmillan Publishers Australia (MPA), Peter Phillips is taking the first steps towards retirement by stepping down from his position as sales and marketing director for Pan Macmillan...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Bookseller+Publisher magazine and Bookseller+Publisher Online/WBN regularly survey our readers to ensure that your trade publications are relevant and useful.For the first time, we have put the latest reader's survey online...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kolkakta Book Fair again in turmoilDiamond Dagger award for Sue GraftonPearson expects to report 'record profits' for...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The fastest mover this week, also coming in at number three in the bestsellers, is Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook Deceptively Delicious (yes she's married to comedian Jerry). Seinfeld's book caused quite...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference 11-13 February, New YorkTo view these and more...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Margaret Truman Daniel, the daughter of US President Harry S Truman and author of best-selling biographies and mysteries, has died in Chicago, she was 83.

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The Brumby Group has announced its acquisition of Bloomings Books, which wholesales and distributes a range of gardening, botanical and natural history books, as well as publishing its own titles...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The Macquarie Dictionary has announced its ‘word of the year' for 2007: ‘Pod-slurping.' Pod-slurping, officially listed as a noun, is the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Australian doctor, author and euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke was detained by New Zealand customs officers at Auckland airport last week.Nitschke was in NZ to conduct his euthanasia workshops. He...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next book to be featured in her influential book club will be A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).Penguin will partner with Winfrey to host...

Monday, 4 February 2008
The shortlist of nominees for the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature has been announced.The biennial awards, with total prize money of $130,000, have attracted 667 entries across nine categories....

Monday, 4 February 2008
Curtin University in Western Australia will launch the Elizabeth Jolley Research Collection later this week. The online collection will showcase the life and work of Jolley, who had a long...

Monday, 4 February 2008
The nature photographer and publisher Steve Parish has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list. Parish, who specialises in photography and books...

Monday, 4 February 2008
Max Ell's Bazaar Books closesMax Ell's Bazaar Books, located in Sydney's Roselands, has closed after more than 30 years of trading. The store, founded by the late Max Ell, ceased trading...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
A move by Cricket Australia (CA) to ban editorial material created at its events from being used in books, unless approved by CA, has drawn intense criticism from the Australian...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Costa award to KennedyUS textbook prices 'rise 186% in 20 years'Nestle prize to endBurmese poet arrested over...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Publishers Patrick Gallagher (chairman of Allen & Unwin) and Louise Adler (CEO of Melbourne University Publishing), and literary agent Rosemary Creswell were among the Australians honoured as a member of the...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The 2006-07 annual report of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme has been released, showing detailed figures on the recipients of over $7 million in funds from PLR and $10.4...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Jillian Durance has won the main prize at the 2007 Victorian Community History Awards for Still Going Strong: The Story of the Moyarra Honor Roll (Moyarra Community Group). Judges described her...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Controversial columnist and former Quadrant editor Padraic ‘Paddy' McGuinness has died in his Sydney home after a battle with cancer. He was 69. First coming to prominence as a student...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Maori poet Hone Tuwhere has died in Dublin, aged 86. The former Te Mata Poet Laureate, who won Montana NZ Book Awards in 1998 and 2002, was best known for...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Crime writer Edward D Hoch has died of a heart attack in his New York home. He was 77. The famously prolific author published more than 900 mystery stories in...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Illustrator Shaun Tan can add yet another award to his bulging CV, after taking out the Album of the Year prize at Angouleme, France's prestigious comic book festival, for The Arrival (Lothian)....

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
James Patterson knocks Ian McEwan's Atonement off top spot this week, with his new crime novel, 7th Heaven, set in San Francisco. It also claims number one position in the...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Professional Publishing in Asia 2008 Conference, New Delhi, 31 Jan–1 Feb Reed Gift Fairs, Melbourne,...