Tuesday, 15 April 2008
‘I spend more on alcohol and catering than I ever have on placing an ad in the newspaper'--ABA president and Avid Reader proprietor Fiona Stager reveals her bookshop marketing secrets...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Author Garth Nix looks set to bring his novel Sabriel to the big screen, with plans the possible film of the first book in the ‘Old Kingdom' trilogy to Hollywood...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Fourteen children's authors, including J K Rowling, Michael Morpugo, Judy Blume and R L Stein, have written an open letter calling for politicians to ‘act on Darfur.' The letter, which...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
The winner of the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards were announced at the Bologna Book Fair on 31 March. This year the author award went to Swiss writer Jurg Schubiger...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
The NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlist was announced today. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($20,000):Diary of a Bad Year (J M Coetzee, Text)The...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Claims that a Lonely Planet contributor plagiarised and made up large sections of three guidebooks, widely reported in the mainstream media in recent days, have been ‘taken out of context,' according to...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Lonely Planet has launched a travel channel on YouTube. Located at www.youtube.com/lonelyplanet, the channel will feature the best of the travel videos currently showing on LonelyPlanet.tv, the publishers' video-sharing website.‘We...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Dymocks has reopened its ‘bigger and better' Doncaster store after renovations. The ultra-modern design is intended to complement the ‘new contemporary look' of the Westfield Shopping Centre, which is undergoing...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Australian journalist Caroline Overington has won this year's $30,000 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for her account of the $290 million Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.KICKBACK: Inside the Australia Wheat Board...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Biographies of Napoleon and two of ‘history's nobodies' have been named joint winners of this year's National Biography Award. University of Newcastle historian Philip Dwyer received $10,000 for Napoleon, 1769-1799:...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Random House Australia unveiled its new children's imprint last week. To be headed up by former UQP publisher Leonie Tyle, ‘Woolshed Press' will be ‘courageous, risky and passionate'. ‘Woolshed Press...

Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Anger growing at Amazon PoD movesNew global list for HarperCollins 'rewrites rules'Amazon launches SMS buyingBloomsbury annual results:...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Registrations are now open for the 2008 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, to be held in Melbourne from 15--17 June.‘Early-bird' discounts have been extended to Friday 18 April. Delegates can...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Underbelly: The Gangland War has finally been knocked off its bestseller perch and is superseded by Jodi Picoult's new release--A Change of Heart. Picoult is due to tour Australia in...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: London Book Fair, London, 14-16 AprilGalley Club of Sydney presents: Digital Content - a panel...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Lesley Beaumont to the position of CEO. David Horgan, the previous CEO and founder of The Five Mile Press, will be staying...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Susannah McFarlane is stepping down as managing director of Hardie Grant Egmont, the business she helped found and develop in 2002.'The rapid growth of the business and especially the highly successful...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Waiting for Mummy by Korean author Lee Tae-Jun and illustrator Kim Dong-Seong, published in Australia by Melbourne-based independent publisher Wilkins Farago, is on the shortlist for the picture-book section of Germany's premier prize...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Dymocks has announced the resignation of buying manager Meredith Drake.‘Meredith has been with us for over seven years and during this time has contributed significantly to the business. Her dedication,...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Leading Edge Books has finalised the plans for its new book prize, to be called the Indie Award.The award, for 'the best Australian book of 2008,' will be judged by...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
The first joint annual conference for Collins Booksellers and Book City franchisees was held at Palm Cove in Queensland late last month.‘A full business-oriented program for attendees from 51 stores...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Junot Díaz has been announced as the winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Faber). Other category winners are:...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Novelist Nicholas Jose will share Harvard University's Chair of Australian Studies from 2009, along with scientist Alison Bashford. The post at one of the US' leading universities has been funded...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Miles Franklin and NSW Prem's shortlists next weekThe shortlists for both the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards will be announced next week--the Prem's prize shortlist on...

Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Former ALP Senator John Button has died. He served as the Minister for Industry and Commerce under Labor prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. After leaving politics, Button wrote...

Monday, 7 April 2008
Terry Dowling's short story ‘Toother' has won the Australian Shadows Award for best horror story of 2007. Published in Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books), Dowling's tale of a serial killer in...

Monday, 7 April 2008
Early bird three-day passes are now available for the Byron Bay Writer's Festival and are selling in ‘record' numbers. To be held on 25-27 July, this year's event will be...