Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced. ‘The field was of a particularly high standard this year, indicative of the increasing quality of Australian...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Turkey to amend controversial free speech lawWaterstone's celebrates a merry XmasTwilight of the book?The future of bibliographic...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Following Pan Macmillan's decision not to proceed with the publication of a local edition of Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, it now seems that Australian booksellers will have difficulties...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
DOI newsThe Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation has announced that the DOI system has made a number of steps forward, including a approval from the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
It's quite the mixed bag on the bestsellers list this week, as post-Christmas spenders forage to their hearts content. Ian McEwan's Atonement stays at number one with the film going...

Tuesday, 22 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 FebTo view these and more...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Journalist and author Sandra Harvey has died aged 49. Sandra wrote five books on crime and criminal investigation and last year was awarded The Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Award...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
John Collins writes: Brian Clouston AM (1925 - 2008)One of the larrikin publishers who survived and prospered in the sixties, Brian Clouston helped break some of the bounds of Empire...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that distributors can now join the association at a 'significantly reduced membership fee.' Distributors who do not publish will be charged a flat...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
A number of different year-end bestseller lists from around the world published recently demonstrate the wide variety of titles that become successful in different markets.Zusak ranks in European chartsAccording to...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a milestone, with its 2006-07 distribution bringing the total returned to rightsholders since CAL's establishment in 1989 to over half a billion dollars.At $134.3...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Sydney-based company Amity Agency has launched what it says is Australia's first ‘Web 2.0 community for book-lovers,' www.booktagger.com. Booktagger is intended as ‘a community where members can create a visual...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Problems at the Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) warehouse that began late last year caused many booksellers headaches over the busy Christmas period.‘We suffered from a strange series of unfortunate events,...

Monday, 21 January 2008
Bookseller+Publisher will shortly be covering two important events of interest to those seeking to gain insights in the expanding Indian book market.On 31 January, the 'Professional Publishing in Asia 2008'...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Due to the volume of responses we've had to our post-Xmas survey, the number-crunching is taking a bit longer than expected. We will publish the results of the survey as...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
'We looked at it on its own merits and we decided not to publish it for legal reasons'--Pan Mac's Annie Coulthard explains why we're not all reading the unauthorised bio...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog recently:Romantic novel award shortlist'W00t' crowned 'word of the year'Fanfic writers call for copyright shake-upShould libraries 'back-up' DRM-protected e-books?Amazon pays millions...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The Random House Group has announced the promotion of Michael Moynahan (pictured) to chairman of Random House New Zealand (RHNZ). In addition to his new responsibilities in New Zealand, Moynahan...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
McGraw-Hill has announced a global restructure, with over 600 jobs cut worldwide, 300 of them in McGraw-Hill Education publishing businesses.Murray St Leger, MD of McGraw-Hill Australia/New Zealand, told WBN that locally...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Murdoch Books has announced that Amanda Roberts will move to a full-time role as international sales director, with ‘direct responsibility for the sales initiatives in the USA, the UK and...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Pan Macmillan's decision not to publish Tom Cruise, An Unauthorised Biography (Andrew Morton) in Australia has made headlines both here and overseas in the past week. The book, which reportedly...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The bestsellers have gone to the movies this week. Ian McEwan's Atonement takes top spot, as the film takes off around the country amid all the hype about that green...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) has won the American Library Association (ALA) 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal--the first time that a novel has won the top...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Louise Egerton from Allen & Unwin writes: Author and marine zoologist Isobel Bennett has died, aged 98. An honorary Master of Science, an Officer of the Order of Australia and recipient of...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Cheryl Akle has been appointed project director of Books Alive, following the departure of Brett Osmond. ‘I've watched and admired this fabulous project from afar,' Akle told WBN, adding that...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Lonely Planet (LP) has announced the appointment of Alex Fenby as global publisher, following the departure of Simon Westcott in December. Fenby, who assumed the position on 7 January, joined...