Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Bolinda's audiobook of Ogre in a Toga, written and narrated by Geoffrey McSkimming, has made the shortlist for the 2008 Audies awards.Ogre in a Toga is nominated in the children's--up...

Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Geraldine Brooks and J M Coetzee are among the authors on the list of ‘good reads' voted on by the members of the US-based National Book Critics Circle (NBCC). The...

Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Author Nick Earls will spearhead a new push to sell more Queensland-authored books in the growing Asian market.Earls has been named as the face of the Queensland Writers Showcase at...

Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Despite a court injunction preventing the screening in Victoria of the 13-part Channel Nine true-crime TV series Underbelly, on the basis that it could prejudice an upcoming murder trial, the...

Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Pearson Education has acquired Swinburne University's publishing arm, Tertiary Press.‘It is a pretty simple story,' said Pearson Education's managing director, David Barnett. ‘Swinburne put the business on the market and...

Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Boomerang Books is promising some ‘major changes' this year. The Adelaide-based online bookstore will take its website ‘to a new level by adopting some exciting Web 2.0 initiatives that have not been...

Monday, 11 February 2008
Total international revenue for McGraw-Hill Education rose 7.2% in 2007, and operating income increased 21.5% to US$400 million (A$430 million), according to annual results just released by the company. The figures...

Monday, 11 February 2008
One of the world's biggest licensing publishers is getting set to enter  the Australian market with 30 books based on the children's TV show, Hi-5. Self-described ‘supermarket specialists', Parragon Publishing...

Monday, 11 February 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the shortlist for the 2008 Book Design Awards. Penguin leads the way with 13 finalists across its various divisions, while Random House features...

Monday, 11 February 2008
The Australia Council's annual accolade for writers over 65, the $50,000 writers' emeritus award, will be shared by Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane. Koch is a two-time winner of the Miles...

Monday, 11 February 2008
Lowry and Morris share NZ fellowshipThis year's NZ$40,000 (A$38,890) Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship will be shared by authors Brigid Lowry and Paula Morris. The writers will spend five months each...

Monday, 11 February 2008
The Running Man (Scholastic) is in the running for another prize. Brisbane author Michael Gerard Bauer's 2004 YA novel has been nominated for the Katholischer Kinder-und Jugendbuchpreis, one of Germany's...

Monday, 11 February 2008
The Australia Council and Copyright Agency Ltd have commissioned book industry consultants Bloom Partners to conduct a new study into the future impact of digital technology on the publishing industry....

Monday, 11 February 2008
Continuing efforts by the Australian newspaper to discredit former boy soldier Ishmael Beah appear to have fallen flat, with customers continuing to purchase his memoir, A Long Way Gone (HarperCollins).While acknowledging that Beah...

Monday, 11 February 2008
The Literature Board of the Australia Council has announced a new one-off grant for established writers and picture book/graphic novel illustrators. The $40,000 ‘Breaking new ground' grant will support the...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
After 35 years with Macmillan Publishers Australia (MPA), Peter Phillips is taking the first steps towards retirement by stepping down from his position as sales and marketing director for Pan Macmillan...

Tuesday, 5 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, 5 February 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kolkakta Book Fair again in turmoilDiamond Dagger award for Sue GraftonPearson expects to report 'record profits' for...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The fastest mover this week, also coming in at number three in the bestsellers, is Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook Deceptively Delicious (yes she's married to comedian Jerry). Seinfeld's book caused quite...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference 11-13 February, New YorkTo view these and more...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Margaret Truman Daniel, the daughter of US President Harry S Truman and author of best-selling biographies and mysteries, has died in Chicago, she was 83.

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The Brumby Group has announced its acquisition of Bloomings Books, which wholesales and distributes a range of gardening, botanical and natural history books, as well as publishing its own titles...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
The Macquarie Dictionary has announced its ‘word of the year' for 2007: ‘Pod-slurping.' Pod-slurping, officially listed as a noun, is the downloading of large quantities of data to an MP3...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Australian doctor, author and euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke was detained by New Zealand customs officers at Auckland airport last week.Nitschke was in NZ to conduct his euthanasia workshops. He...

Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next book to be featured in her influential book club will be A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).Penguin will partner with Winfrey to host...

Monday, 4 February 2008
The shortlist of nominees for the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature has been announced.The biennial awards, with total prize money of $130,000, have attracted 667 entries across nine categories....

Monday, 4 February 2008
Curtin University in Western Australia will launch the Elizabeth Jolley Research Collection later this week. The online collection will showcase the life and work of Jolley, who had a long...

Monday, 4 February 2008
The nature photographer and publisher Steve Parish has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list. Parish, who specialises in photography and books...