Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Spielberg buys film rights to ‘The Unknown Terrorist'Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Studio has reportedly paid ‘a massive sum' to secure the film rights to Richard Flanagan's novel The Unknown Terrorist (Picador).The...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Pearson has received the necessary approvals from the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to allow it to finalise the acquisition of Harcourt Education in Australia and New Zealand, concluding...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The campus bookselling chain United Campus Bookshops fears several of its NSW TAFE bookshops with contracts currently under review by the NSW education department may be set to close at...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Reuters on HP discountingCharkin 'borrows' Google computers at BEAEgmont and Bonnier merge in Denmark and SwedenPoet is...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been announced as the second recipient of the Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 (A$135,000).Achebe is known as 'the father of modern African literature'. The...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
'There were lots of books we rejected--about personal female issues, the loss of a child, the break-up of a marriage, thinly veiled autobiographical things of no consequence...'Orange Prize judge Muriel...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
There's nothing like a little murder and mayhem to while away the winter nights. Dead bodies, missing persons and battle-weary detectives characterise this week's top 10 with new entries from...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Peter Temple is the first Australian author to be shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (formerly know as the Gold Dagger).Temple's The Broken Shore (Text)...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
RFID roll-out in librariesAll public libraries in the ACT and a number in Victoria are moving quickly to implement RFID technology. The ACT Library and Information Service received $1.6 million...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Colette Vella, editorial manager at Murdoch Books, has been awarded 2007 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship, which was announced at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 1 June, recognises editors...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The Ditmar Awards for science fiction were presented last weekend in Melbourne at the Convergence 2 conference.Among the winners are:novel: The Pilo Family Circus (Will Elliot, ABC Books)novella/novelette: ‘The Devil...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on 6 June. Scar Tissue by US author Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Shaun Tan's The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia) has been named winner of the Premier's Prize in this year's WA Premier's Book Awards, announced on 8 June. Tan's graphic novel, which...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$67,000), for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperCollins). The novel, which is...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The State Library of Victoria has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, this year worth a total of $165,000. The Fellowships allow writers, artists, historians and others to...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:International Booksellers Federation Conference, Cape Town, 13-16 JuneCape Town Book Fair, 16-19 JuneABA Annual Conference, 17-19...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The shortlist for the 2007 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing has been announced, with 62 titles selected over several primary school, secondary school, TAFE and vocational, and tertiary...

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
‘There's always certain politics among writers.'Wendy Were, SWF artistic director, on the reported tension between some of this year's Festival guests. 

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week:US book sales ‘struggling', says ‘NY Times'BookSurge steps up PoD effortsIPA criticises UN Human Rights CouncilOprah picks ‘Middlesex'Trade needs...

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced authors Clive James and Dave Eggers will launch this year's festival on Friday 24 August. James will discuss his latest work Cultural Amnesia (Picador) in the...

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
LP author missingAustralian travel writer Clem Lindenmeyer, who has written a number of books for Lonely Planet, has gone missing in Tibet. He is now the subject of a search...

Tuesday, 5 June 2007
DA Information Services has announced that its trade distribution arm will be renamed Central Book Services.Central Book Services will ‘focus on effective trade marketing and bookseller services,' according to a...