Tuesday, 21 July 2009
‘Further, the expansion of the books production industries over recent decades has attracted and held productive resources, notably skilled labour and capital, that have thereby been unavailable for use in...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The travel market is ‘increasingly challenging', according to Lonely Planet owner BBC Worldwide, which has released its annual results. The results are for the 2008/2009 full year, compared to the...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Author Gordon Burn, whose work explored boundaries between fact and fiction, and the dark side of celebrity, has died, aged 61. His books included Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son; Pocket Money;...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Online Australian bookseller Seekbooks has announced it will offer Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol for more than 60% off the $49.95 recommended retail price, at $18.99. ‘The release gives us...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
UK children's writer, critic and teacher Naomi Lewis has died, aged 97. Her publications include A Visit to Mrs Wilcox and countless reviews in the New York Times and Observer....

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Several educational publishers and campus booksellers have united in opposition to the Productivity Commission's recommendations on parallel importation restrictions (PIRs). ‘It is certainly disappointing that the [Commission] doesn't understand that...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The Bookshop in Sydney's Darlinghurst--a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) specialist bookstore--is celebrating 25 years in business. SX News asked The Bookshop's manager of 20 years Graeme Aitken how...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The Reader's Feast Crime & Justice Festival, held last weekend in Melbourne and now in its second year, proved ‘a great success', Reader's Feast's Mary Dalmau told WBN. Dalmau said...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The program for the 2009 Melbourne Writers' Festival (MWF), which will run from 21 to 30 August, was launched on Thursday 16 July. MWF organisers, participating writers, media and general...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Booksellers can download various web banners promoting the Indigenous Literacy Project ahead of the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 2 September. The Indigenous Literacy Committee intends the promotional...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
The ‘bit lit' phenomenon continues with Stephenie Meyer devouring the top four places on this week's Bestseller chart. Lookout for handouts with this week's highest new entry 101 Ways to...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Hong Kong Book Fair, 22-28 JulyPoetry for the Poeple--Montana Poetry Day, NZ, 24 JulyNew Voices...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Frank McCourt, who turned his difficult Irish childhood and 30 years teaching in New York into the memoirs Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man, died Sunday July 19 in New...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Authors on tour in July, August and September: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins  (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the 50ft...

Monday, 20 July 2009
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has acquired the Redfern Legal Centre Publishing imprint and will be publishing the new edition of The Law Handbook and The Family Law Handbook;...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog (with many more to come!)Google settlement: what will happen if it's rejected?Anderson's Free free on Scribd, or is it?Blackwell...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
'What does the recommendation to review subsidies "with a view to better targeting of cultural externalities" mean. Anyone?'--Meanjin twitter feed, approximately 4.30pm yesterday.

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
FictionNicola Barr at the Susijn Agency has sold Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia, to Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming, to Harvill Secker. The title was published by Sleepers in...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine: Angela Meyer rounds up Father's Day titles, and also food and drink titlesMatthia Dempsey reports on this year's ABA conferencee We take a look...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
HarperCollins has announced that it is ‘restructuring the customer service and credit teams' at the Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) Moss Vale Distribution Centre. The announcement follows the move of...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Susannah McFarlane, former co-owner and publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont, has announced the launch of her new company LemonFizz Media (LFM). The business, which McFarlane said would ‘not be a...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Snakes alive! Medusa by Clive Cussler gets top gong this week in the Highest New Entries chart. The title doesn't relate to snakes however, but a rare blue jellyfish called...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney PEN presents: Max Barry on Risk - Sydney, 15 JulyEltham Bookshop events featuring Malalai...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Exiled author Vasily Aksyonov, who left the Soviet Union in 1980 and lived in the US for more than two decades, has died, aged 76. His work included The Burn,...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Larissa Behrendt has been named Indigenous Person of the Year during the recent NAIDOC Week. The award was announced at the NAIDOC Week ball in Brisbane.Behrendt, whose novel Home won...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
The New South Wales Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced it will be holding a two-day conference in Sydney on 18 and 19 June 2010....

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Melbourne University Publishing has announced its participation in a new series of ‘born digital' fully interactive ebooks, designed to be read on screen. Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
The ALS Gold Medal for 2008 has been awarded to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (A&U).The judges said of The Slap: ‘There is a raw energy in Tsiolkas' prose that is...

Monday, 13 July 2009
Carolyn Lewis, Spencer Levine and Keely O'Shannessy have been announced as the shortlisted designers for the inaugural Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award. The new New Zealand award...