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...

Monday, 4 February 2008
Max Ell's Bazaar Books closesMax Ell's Bazaar Books, located in Sydney's Roselands, has closed after more than 30 years of trading. The store, founded by the late Max Ell, ceased trading...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
A move by Cricket Australia (CA) to ban editorial material created at its events from being used in books, unless approved by CA, has drawn intense criticism from the Australian...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Costa award to KennedyUS textbook prices 'rise 186% in 20 years'Nestle prize to endBurmese poet arrested over...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Publishers Patrick Gallagher (chairman of Allen & Unwin) and Louise Adler (CEO of Melbourne University Publishing), and literary agent Rosemary Creswell were among the Australians honoured as a member of the...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The 2006-07 annual report of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme has been released, showing detailed figures on the recipients of over $7 million in funds from PLR and $10.4...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Jillian Durance has won the main prize at the 2007 Victorian Community History Awards for Still Going Strong: The Story of the Moyarra Honor Roll (Moyarra Community Group). Judges described her...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Controversial columnist and former Quadrant editor Padraic ‘Paddy' McGuinness has died in his Sydney home after a battle with cancer. He was 69. First coming to prominence as a student...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Maori poet Hone Tuwhere has died in Dublin, aged 86. The former Te Mata Poet Laureate, who won Montana NZ Book Awards in 1998 and 2002, was best known for...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Crime writer Edward D Hoch has died of a heart attack in his New York home. He was 77. The famously prolific author published more than 900 mystery stories in...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Illustrator Shaun Tan can add yet another award to his bulging CV, after taking out the Album of the Year prize at Angouleme, France's prestigious comic book festival, for The Arrival (Lothian)....

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
James Patterson knocks Ian McEwan's Atonement off top spot this week, with his new crime novel, 7th Heaven, set in San Francisco. It also claims number one position in the...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Professional Publishing in Asia 2008 Conference, New Delhi, 31 Jan–1 Feb Reed Gift Fairs, Melbourne,...

Tuesday, 29 January 2008
The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced. ‘The field was of a particularly high standard this year, indicative of the increasing quality of Australian...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Turkey to amend controversial free speech lawWaterstone's celebrates a merry XmasTwilight of the book?The future of bibliographic...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Following Pan Macmillan's decision not to proceed with the publication of a local edition of Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, it now seems that Australian booksellers will have difficulties...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
DOI newsThe Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation has announced that the DOI system has made a number of steps forward, including a approval from the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
It's quite the mixed bag on the bestsellers list this week, as post-Christmas spenders forage to their hearts content. Ian McEwan's Atonement stays at number one with the film going...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Professional Publishing in Asia 2008 Conference, New Delhi, 31 Jan-1 FebTo view these and more...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Journalist and author Sandra Harvey has died aged 49. Sandra wrote five books on crime and criminal investigation and last year was awarded The Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Award...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
John Collins writes: Brian Clouston AM (1925 - 2008)One of the larrikin publishers who survived and prospered in the sixties, Brian Clouston helped break some of the bounds of Empire...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that distributors can now join the association at a 'significantly reduced membership fee.' Distributors who do not publish will be charged a flat...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
A number of different year-end bestseller lists from around the world published recently demonstrate the wide variety of titles that become successful in different markets.Zusak ranks in European chartsAccording to...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a milestone, with its 2006-07 distribution bringing the total returned to rightsholders since CAL's establishment in 1989 to over half a billion dollars.At $134.3...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Sydney-based company Amity Agency has launched what it says is Australia's first ‘Web 2.0 community for book-lovers,' www.booktagger.com. Booktagger is intended as ‘a community where members can create a visual...

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Problems at the Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) warehouse that began late last year caused many booksellers headaches over the busy Christmas period.‘We suffered from a strange series of unfortunate events,...