Tuesday, 26 February 2008
The organisers of the Man Booker Prize have announced that a one-off Best of the Booker award will be presented this year to ‘the best novel to have won the...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
It was a bookish Oscars ceremony this year, with three of the five films nominated for best picture at this year's Academy Awards being based on novels. No Country for...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
You will soon be able to subscribe to Thorpe-Bowker's Weekly Book Newletter and Media Extra services--or renew your subscription--online, following the launch of a new subscription management module to Bookseller+Publisher Online, due to...

Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Random drops DRM on audiobooksUK indie publishers flourishHas Reed already found a buyer for RBI?Countdown to UK's...

Monday, 25 February 2008
Max Barry's novel Company and Barry Heard's Vietnam memoir Well Done, Those Men, both published by Scribe, are Victoria's favourite summer reads, according to the State Library of Victoria (SLV).  Now...

Monday, 25 February 2008
International publisher Parragon has acquired the publishing division of Funtastic. Fourteen Funtastic publishing staffers have been made redundant, with the remaining 12 due to move to Parragon’s South Yarra office next...

Monday, 25 February 2008
The Anglo-Dutch media group Reed Elsevier has announced plans to sell its £1b (A$2.04 billion) business magazine division, Reed Business Information (RBI). Details of the sale--which will include the US publishing...

Monday, 25 February 2008
Quarto, the London-based parent company of Australian book packager Global Book Publishing, has announced its earnings for 2007, reporting a growth in total revenue of 7% to £100.1 million (A$212...

Monday, 25 February 2008
NZ Post Book Awards shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards For Children and Young Adults has been announced. Three of this year's finalists--Andrew Crowe, Gavin...

Monday, 25 February 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Australian Science Fiction Awards (also known as the Ditmars) has been announced. In the running for best novel are: The Company of the Dead (David Kowalski,...

Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Dymocks has launched a list of the 101 titles that its customers have voted as "Booklovers' Best". More than 15,000 people took part in the on-line survey, which proved an eye-opener...

Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Bookseller+Publisher magazine and Bookseller+Publisher Online/WBN regularly survey our readers to ensure that your trade publications are relevant and useful.For the first time, we have put the latest reader's survey online...

Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Stephen King's new horror novel Duma Key is number one in the highest new entry charts this week. The title refers to an island in the Florida Keys where the...

Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Perth Writers Festival, 22-24 FebruaryClosing date for submissions to Kathleen Mitchell Award, 22 FebruaryReed Gift...

Monday, 18 February 2008
‘This is one of the only ways we can break the backs of the monopolists who are currently seriously damaging our fields,' Harvard University's professor of English Stephen Greenblatt on the...

Monday, 18 February 2008
New book on Copyright ActThe Australian Copyright Council has released a new book covering the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act. The Council has also published updates to its previous...

Monday, 18 February 2008
The entry period for this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (the ABIAs) opens on Monday 3 March. Publishers can enter as many times as they like and will have until...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Australian bookshops and libraries are now able to stock the state-of-the-art e-book reader iLiad, thanks to Central Book Services (CBS). 'A device as small and light as a single book,' iLiad...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Figures lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) by A&R Whitcoulls show that the Australian A&R stores posted a net loss of $961,000 in the year to 1...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Among the international book-trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Shortlist for inaugural Arabic fiction prizePublicists 'devote half their resources' to online marketing'Publishers are lost...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Self-published authors have a new outlet to sell their books, with the launch of an online store by print-on-demand company BookPOD. ‘Many of our customers have taken the advantage of our book...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Three changes have been announced this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at the Adelaide Writers Week.New guests Andreas Campomar (commissioning editor, Constable & Robinson, UK), Patrick Janson-Smith (literary agent,...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Lesley McKay has joined the judging panel for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Sydney historian and bookshop owner replaces Eve Abbey, who retired in late 2007 after three...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Dave Eggers and Tom Stoppard have joined the chorus of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, politicians, sportspeople and artists calling on China to help bring peace to Darfur in Sudan's western...

Monday, 18 February 2008
Sophie Cunningham has been appointed as the editor of literary journal Meanjin.Cunningham took the reins this week, promising longer essays, more cultural politics and a website that ‘promotes lively debate'....

Monday, 18 February 2008
Australians are guaranteed at least two regional awards at this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP). Local novelists occupy all 11 spots on the shortlists for Best Book and Best First...