Wednesday, 27 May 2009
‘In every company every year there were Australian books that were published that everyone knew would not make money. And they were published because those publishers believed that this Australian...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
In rights news this week: FictionAllen & Unwin has sold US rights to Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas to Penguin (Viking), with Canadian rights going to...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Carleen Bryant, the mother of Martin Bryant, is reportedly suing Fairfax Media over the publication of Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a Mass Murderer (Robert Wainwright and...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
This year's Sydney Writers Festival wound up on Sunday 24 May, having run from Monday 18 May. While many at this year's festival commented that the 2009 program had fewer...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Indigenous Literacy Day patron Therese Rein yesterday launched a new early childhood literacy program that will see sets of board books being given to all children under school age in...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program was again an important part of the Sydney Writers Festival (the annual VIP program alternates between the Sydney and Adelaide festivals). This...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Alexandra Nahlous was announced as the winner of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers' Festival on Thursday 21 May. The Fellowship will fund Nahlous to spend three...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Toyoko Sugiwaka was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year for the book Another Time Past Created (Murdoch Books) at this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Alice Munro wins Booker InternationalPublishing the booziest profession Ingram consolidates divisions into Ingram Content GroupB&T teams with...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Gordon and Gotch has announced that the three principals of book distributor The Scribo Group--Gary Cobbledick, Michael Rakusin and Dale Druckman--will be leaving the business.Gary Cobbledick (Brumby/Bookwise) and Michael Rakusin...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
After 20 year, distribution of Phaidon Press titles is moving from Bookwise to Penguin/UBD. Penguin Books, in conjunction with United Book Distributors, will be taking over the exclusive sales, distribution...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Jane Curry Publishing delivers the goods this week as My Mum's Got Cancer takes pole position in the Highest New Entry charts. Written by Lucy Blunt, it's a ‘resource for...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Emerging Writers' Festival, Melbourne, 22-31 MayBayside Literary Festival 2009, Melbourne, 22-31 MayConScription--30th National Science...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
David Herbert Donald, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Lincoln, has died, aged 88.  

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Schools program--Melbourne Writers' FestivalThe Melbourne Writers’ Festival (MWF) has announced that its school program will take place in Federation Square from Monday 24 to Wednesday 26 August, with a regional...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Alison Croggon, poet, author, and Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian and the blog Theatre Notes, has been awarded the 2009 Pascall Critic of the Year prize, worth $15,000. The...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Kate De Goldi has been awarded the 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for The 10pm Question (A&U), announced in a ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday 20...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Sydney-based author Julia Leigh has won the £10,000 ($A20,383) Encore Award for a second novel for Disquiet (Penguin).Leigh beat out an international shortlist for the award, judged by Lindsay Duguid,...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
A new creative writing initiative in Victoria--the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards--was announced at the opening night of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne on Friday 22 May. The initiative...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Ben Naparstek, a 23-year-old, Melbourne-based recent university graduate, has been named the new editor of the Monthly. Morry Schwartz, publisher of the Monthly, told the Age he was ‘thrilled’ with...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Scribd to open internet storeKindle publishing now open to blogsAmazon launches publishing program: AmazonEncoreSelf-publishing takes the lead...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Eye of the Storm: the 2009 Northern Territory Writers' Festival concluded on 4 May, having run from 1 May in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Workshops, panels, readings, poetry slams and literary activities...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced in a unanimous decision. The winners were:Nam Le (The Boat, Penguin)Alice Nelson (The Last...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
‘Good writing exists in public notices or on heartbreaking lost dog posters. It exists where you find it. It is not beholden to its surroundings. It even exists under the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
ABC Commercial has launched a ‘new look' concept store at Bondi Junction in Sydney. The store, which was unveiled last Friday, is the first of the ABC's stores to feature...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Author and former HarperCollins associate nonfiction publisher Sally Collings has announced the launch of a new publishing venture with her husband Robert Collings. The venture, Red Hill Publishing is a...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
In rights news this week: FictionRandom House has sold Stillwater Creek by Alison Booth to France (Stillwater Creek is a recent acquisition for Random House Australia from agent Lyn Tranter...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Random House Australia (RHA) has unveiled its new website in a ‘soft launch', with bugs to be ironed out in coming weeks and further developments to come in June and...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Two bookshops close in LismoreDymocks CEO Don Grover confirmed the closure of the Dymocks store in Lismore in New South Wales, telling WBN the Lismore franchisee made the decision to...