Tuesday, 27 October 2009
British fantasy author Louise Cooper has died, aged 57. The author of the 'Seahorses' and ‘The Mermaid's Curse' series wrote more than 80 books.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The winners of the annual NSW KOALA (Kids Own Australian Literature Award) popular choice awards were announced in Sydney yesterday. The winners were:  Picture Storybook Award: Rex (Ursula Dubosarsky &...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Elsevier Australia launches online ordering system ‘Virtual E'Elsevier Australia has announced the launch of a new online stock ordering system called Virtual E. ‘The sophisticated B-to-B portal allows bookstores to...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Dymocks is celebrating the 130 year anniversary since its first store opened in Sydney. ‘Dymocks is an iconic Australian brand which has stood the test of time,' said CEO Don...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Pan Macmillan has reported that its print run for The Five Greatest Warriors (Matthew Reilly) is its biggest ever for an Australian author. ‘We have already topped up that initial...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Australian Book Review (ABR) announced the Favourite Australian Novel (FAN) Poll this week. The poll, which asks readers to vote for their favourite Australian novel of all time ‘is generating...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Simon & Schuster has sold rights for Earth User's Guide to Permaculture (Rosemary Morrow) to Taiwan.Children's and YA--Little Hare Books has sold rights for Ivy...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Phil Walshe, who founded the audiobook company Bolinda Publishing some 30 years ago, has sold the business to his daughter Rebecca and her husband Jan Herrmann. ‘[We] have acquired Bolinda...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Small publishing house Aduki Independent Press is up for sale. Aduki publisher, Emily Clark, told WBN she had decided to return to university to study law and would not have...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol triumphs again in the Bestsellers at number one, followed by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson. The Highest New Entries chart...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nominations close for 2010 Adelaide Festival awards for literature, 30 OctoberApplications close for Readings Foundation...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Author of the wildly popular Tully and The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons is now in Australia to promote her new novel A Song in the Daylight. Local fans will be...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
US children's book author Norma Fox Mazer has died, aged 78. She wrote more than 30 picture books and novels for young readers, including After the Rain.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room) Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem) Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings) Roland Perry,...

Monday, 26 October 2009
‘Print publishing will be seriously disrupted long before ebooks are used by "most people." That's because print publishing is a "critical mass" business: we need to sell enough to make...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Ligare has announced the appointment of Wayne Bywater as general manager. ‘Wayne's appointment is more like a homecoming, having worked for Ligare 15 years ago, leaving to pursue his management...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Bruce Caddy joins Marbecks for new concept storeNew Zealand music retail chain Marbecks will open a new concept store in Dunedin in mid-November. ‘This store will be the first Marbecks...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Google announces new 'Google Editions' ebook store Barnes & Noble launches 'nook' ereader Friedman launches new ditial publishing company Claudio Magris...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Lonely Planet has announced it will host an ‘open hack day' at its Melbourne offices on the weekend of 7 and 8 November, offering 100 Australian developers ‘full, unfettered access...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Thorpe-Bowker has announced that Angela Meyer will be taking on the role of acting editor of Bookseller+Publisher magazine. Meyer, who has worked as editorial assistant on the publication for the...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
It's a girlish week at the top of the charts--Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is number one in the Bestsellers (overtaking The Lost Symbol by Dan...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--UWA Publishing has sold rights for The Seamstress (Geraldine Wooller) to Salento Books in Italy.Nonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Annual Family Therapy Conference--presenting the Annual Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature, 20-22 OctoberFlight of...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
If anyone's been wondering what local author Mandy Sayer has been up to, wonder no longer. She's been busy editing The Australian Long Story, which is now available in bookshops....

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author Stuart M Kaminsky has died, aged 75. He wrote more than 70 novels including Bullet for a Star.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author and reporter Nan Robertson who wrote The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times has died, aged 83.