Tuesday, 17 July 2007
James Halliday's Wine Atlas of Australia (Hardie Grant) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Louis Roederer International Book of the Year 2007 award.The Wine Atlas is the only Australian book...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Sydney-based author Neal Drinnan is one of the recipients of the 2007 Lambda Awards, the world's key gay and lesbian literary awards.Drinnan won the Lambda for fantasy and horror writing...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Romance author Kathleen E Woodiwiss, who was credited with inventing the modern historical romance novel, died last week at the age of 68. 'We all owe our careers to her,'...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Well, Channel 9 may not be winning the television ratings war in the manner to which it was once accustomed but it seems readers are happy to give it a...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
'Muggles, do you know what this chamber of secrets is?'--in the lead-up to HP7, the Sunday Age tries its best to make the relatively un-magical ADS warehouse into an object...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Among the new items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Meagre marketing returns from 'social web'BEA to Las Vegas in 2011New study shows huge potential growth...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Following its acquisition of Harcourt Education in May, Pearson Australia has announced a number of redundancies in the senior management group at Harcourt. ‘As previously announced we will be integrating...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
The organisers of the Melbourne Writers' Festival have announced an impressive line-up of crime authors for this year's festival. Dorothy Porter, Shane Maloney, Gabrielle Lord and newcomers Leah Giarratano and...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Speaking during an Australian Publishers Association (APA) seminar in Melbourne on 27 June, APA CEO Maree McCaskill urged publishers to find their common interests in order to present a united...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has announced it will provide a Melbourne studio apartment to support the work of the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust. The East Malvern apartment will...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (Text) has been named the winner of this year's Duncan Lawrie Dagger--previously known as the ‘Gold Dagger'--by the British Crime Writers Association (CWA). Temple is...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Twenty authors will participate in nearly 100 public events during this year's Books Alive campaign, starting on 25 July. ‘It is particularly exciting to have such a large contingent of Australian...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Jasmin Chua, a senior editor at Hardie Grant Books, is one of 18 recipients of this year's Frankfurt Fellowships. The Fellowships allow a young publisher to travel to Germany for...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Reed Gift Fairs in Brisbane, which runs from 14 to 17 JulyPublishing the Story of the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the last week:US Big Read scheme to grow to 400 citiesEspresso Book Machine prompts PoD debateMore disappointing results for...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP) has announced the appointment of Mary-Anne Paton as CEO, effective 9 July, as well as its new trading name, Fremantle Press. Paton, who has...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The shortlist for 15 of the 18 awards to be presented at this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced. The winners of these 15 awards, as well...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Campus Bookseller+Publisher, the magazine which attempts to explain the book industry to decision-makers on campus, will be published again this year, following concerns about its future in 2006.The magazine, a supplement of...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced that 20 countries from the Arab-speaking world will be the market Focus for the 2008 fair.A three-day cultural program during the fair (April...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The Schumann Frequency by Christopher Ride, the first title to be featured on the ‘Book Choice' television advertisements, has come in at number six on the Neilsen BookScan ‘fastest movers'...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Carpentaria, the 2007 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2007 Australian Literatures Society (ALS) Gold Medal for ?an outstanding literary work published in the...