Tuesday, 13 March 2007
French philosopher and postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard has died at the age of 77. A fierce critic of modern consumer culture, Baudrillard published more than 30 books expounding his theories...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its fourth year, has announced some of the guests who will be attending the 2007 festival, to be held in Bali from...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), has announced a number of the authors who will be attending this year's festival. German novelist Juli Zeh (Eagles and Angels,...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Reporting its full-year results, Hachette Livre's parent company Lagardere said its ‘books segment enjoyed a year of solid growth,' raising sales by 20% overall in 2006, from €1.64 billion (A$2.6...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Jane Palfreyman, former executive publisher at Random House, has signed four titles since beginning in her new position of publisher at Allen & Unwin on 20 February--all of them by...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Faye Sutherland, manager of the Co-op Bookshop at Macquarie University, has been awarded this year's Unwin Trust Fellowship. Sutherland, who is the first academic bookseller to be awarded the fellowship, will...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Miles Franklin Award has announced an expanded regional author tour program, thanks to sponsorship from CAL.Building on a successful tour of regional NSW and Victoria by last year's winner...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Federal Government has issued a reminder to all employers that new record-keeping obligations required under the Work Choices legislation will be enforced after 27 March.The requirements, related largely to...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced.The six titles are:Arthur Tange (Peter Edwards, A&U)Mr Stuart's Track (John Bailey, Macmillan)The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Author Lloyd Jones has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency for 2007.Jones will spend a year in Berlin from August, where he will work on a new...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Books Alive has announced that Peter FitzSimons will be the ambassador for its fifth national campaign, running from Wednesday 25 July to Friday 31 August.FitzSimons' new book, The Ballad of...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The online newsletter Crikey yesterday published a copy of a draft version of the government's proposed legislation aimed at making classification of content ‘technology neutral'.Margaret Simons, writing in Crikey, said...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The 10 finalists in this year's Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton); Stick out Your Tongue (Ma Jian, Vintage); Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
According to a report in the Age, Nikki Christer, Picador publishing director at Pan Macmillan, has announced her resignation from the company. Christer denied that she would be filling the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Luck in the Greater West, by 37-year-old Damian McDonald, was announced as the winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award at an award ceremony in Sydney last night. McDonald, a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The federal opposition has joined the government in pushing for a national curriculum for Australian schools. The Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced the opposition's plan for a consistent curriculum on...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The winners of India's Hutch Crossword Book Awards were announced on 21 February in Mumbai. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, Faber) won the English fiction award, with Vikram Seth's family history...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Canada-based media group Torstar, owner of romance publisher Harlequin/Mills & Boon, has described 2006 as a ‘challenging' year in announcing its annual results. Net income for the year was down CAN$ 39.7 million...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), US-based parent company of the Australian distributor Bookwise, has reached an agreement with US wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) on the sale of certain AMS assets. However,...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
With summer officially over it's time for booksellers to start preparing for the next big sales event: Mother's Day. The bestseller charts are brimming with potential titles. Xmas bestsellers and...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Professor David Myers, publisher of Central Queensland University Press imprint Outback Books, has died from complications related to his battle with a brain tumour. CQU Vice-Chancellor Professor John Rickard writes:...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Pan Macmillan writes: ‘Billy was not just one of the country's rock 'n' roll legends, he was also a very successful author. His two books Sex and Thugs and Rock...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
American historian and author Arthur Schlesinger has died from a heart attack, aged 89.An influential liberal voice in US politics, Schlesinger once served as special assistant in the Kennedy White...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Among the stories recently added to our 'Around the World' blog:new CEO for Reader's DigestB&N forecasts a flat yearSharemarket pundits say 'sell Borders'Random's Rebuck says market remains tough Google Book Search...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is facing a defamation suit from Kyle Kutasi, who objects to a number of passages referring to him in John Hyde Page's memoir The Education of a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Random House has struck a deal with Sir Richard Branson to acquire 90% of his publishing imprint Virgin Books.The agreement includes a five-book deal for Branson and his retaining 10%...