Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Former Australian police detective sergeant-turned-crime writer Tim Priest is in the spotlight again. His book Enemies of the State has hit number one in the Highest New Entries chart this...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Edinburgh International Book Festival, 15-31 AugustAustralian Copyright Council--2009 training program, Brisbane, 18-21 AugustOnline Retailer Exhibition...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
A book that is sure to appeal to sport fans topped the MX chart this week. Max Davidson's Winning Isn't Everything honours sports figures who behave with grace, modesty and...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
New Zealand poet, novelist and playwright Alistair Te Ariki Campbell has died, aged 84.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Authors on tour from August to November: AugustGareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right About Climate Change?)Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Eric Garcia, Scribe (The Repossession...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The Latin American Bookshop on Victoria Street, North Melbourne, has closed. The store was owned by international publisher Ocean Press. The Press told WBN: ‘Our Victoria Street bookshop was always...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The winners of the Romantic Book of the Year Award (R*BY), administered by Romance Writers of Australia (RWA), have been announced. The R*BY is awarded to the best romance book...

Sunday, 16 August 2009
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Random House rights sales manager Nerrilee Weir has joined the Visiting International Publisher (VIP) committee. ‘Nerrilee's experience and knowledge of international...

Sunday, 16 August 2009
Corrie Perkin, arts writer for the Australian, has announced she will open a bookshop in Melbourne in October. My Bookshop by Corrie Perkin, will open in Malvern Road in Victoria's...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Oxford University Press has reported a rise in turnover to £578.7million (A$1156.8 million) for the year ended 31 March 2009 from £492.3 million (A$984.1 million) for the previous year. The...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
HarperCollins announces new sci-fi short story competitionHarperCollins has announced a new science-fiction short story competition that will use its social network for unpublished authors, authonomy.com. Entrants will compete for the...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
In rights news this week: FictionText has acquired rights to the long-awaited new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi). The as-yet-untitled novel will be released in...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
This year's Dymocks annual national conference, held at the Radisson Resort Hotel on the Gold Coast from Sunday 9 August to Tuesday 11 August, was a ‘very upbeat' one, according...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Bloomsbury in the US has announced that its edition of Australian author Justine Larbalestier's new novel Liar (A&U), which has a black girl as its protagonist, will be re-jacketed in...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Gaiman heads Hugo winnersReading makes Americans optimisticUK booksellers hit out at OxfamNew Sony Reader is...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The winners of the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa: Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa) Children's Book Awards were announced in Wellington on Monday 10 August. The...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The film tie-in to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult has cut a swathe though the Stephenie Meyer titles this week in the Bestseller charts, sitting pretty at number three....

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The shortlists for the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced. ‘The Neds' award crime writing in Australia. This year, a new award has been added, honouring Australia's best crime...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Aireys Festival of Words, Aireys Inlet, Vic, 14-16 AugustRomance Writers of Australia--national conference, Brisbane,...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
As reported in this week’s Media Extra Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark, has written another novel steeped in Europe's past. Based on true events, The People's Train follows the...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Authors on tour from August to November: AugustGareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right About Climate Change?)Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Eric Garcia, Scribe (The Repossession...

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
American Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront and novels What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall has died, aged 95.

Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Writer Tim Guest has died, aged 34. He was the author of memoir My Life in Orange and Second Lives.

Monday, 10 August 2009
HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has reported an operating income loss in its book publishing division of US$16 million (A$19 million) for the year ended 30 June, down from an...

Monday, 10 August 2009
The New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum has announced it will hold a half-day ebook-making workshop. The workshop, entitled ‘How to Make an eBook: XML and Other Mysteries Revealed', is a...

Monday, 10 August 2009
Steve Grimwade has been appointed the new director for the Melbourne Writers' Festival. Grimwade, who is currently associate director, will take on the role following the 2009 festival, which will...

Monday, 10 August 2009
Random House Australia has announced the winner of its inaugural Book Video Awards. Todd Decker, who submitted a ‘book video' of Nick Earls' The True Story of Butterfish, was judged...

Monday, 10 August 2009
The shortlists for the 2009 Age Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced before Bernhard Schlink's keynote speech at Melbourne Town Hall, on the...