Tuesday, 20 November 2007
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed ‘serious concerns' over rights and contractual issues caused by the increasing delivery of digitised content.The ASA's concerns have been prompted by developments...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Former rugby league player Andrew Johns' autobiography The Two of Me has hit the charts this week with a bang. It comes second after Matthew Reilly's Six Sacred Stones in the...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Copyright Council - Law and Practice Symposium, Sydney 22 - 23 NovemberThe Annual Wellington...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Ira Levin, the author of many successful novels including Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, has died in Manhattan aged 78.

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Stephanie Johnston of Wakefield Press, founding chair of the South Australian Big Book Club, announced her resignation from the position at the Club's AGM last week. ‘I'll remain on the...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
As the nation prepares to vote, even the annual New South Wales Writers' Centre Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow, held in Leichhardt from 16 to 18 November, could not escape...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Murdoch Books has enjoyed ‘strong growth' over the financial year to June, according to CEO Juliet Rogers. Rogers said this was ‘despite challenges in [the company's] international markets due to...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Mr Stuart's Track by Melbourne author John Bailey (Macmillan) has been named the winner of the 2007 Westfield/Waverly Library Award for Literature at an award presentation held last Wednesday 14...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
HarperCollins has announced it will launch a new large print imprint in January next year. The imprint, HarperLuxe, is intended to ‘provide a more comfortable reading experience.' Featuring a 14-point...

Tuesday, 20 November 2007
The shortlisted titles for this year's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commision's Human Rights Awards arts nonfiction category have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Acting From the Heart: Australian...

Sunday, 18 November 2007
Simon & Schuster Australia MD Jon Attenborough has announced his resignation.Attenborough has headed S&S in Australia since 1987. 'I have decided that it is the right time,' he said in...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Melbourne CBD bookseller Reader's Feast has announced ambitious plans for a major Crime and Justice literary festival, to be held in Melbourne next July.At a launch earlier today at the...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Dymocks last night unveiled a new Digital Books initiative that offers customers a choice of over 120,000 digital e-book titles, as well as more than 30,000 audiobook titles. Dymocks CEO...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
The same two books that were first and second last week in the bestseller charts are up there again--Matthew Reilly's Six Sacred Stones and Patricia Cornwell's Book of the Dead...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Campus Booksellers Association conference, Sydney 14-16 November9th NSW Writers' Centre Australian Publishers and Authors...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Literary agent Margaret Gee writes: I had known Bob for twenty years and he was a cherished friend and author. He shot to bestsellerdom in Australia with his legendary book,...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Author Norman Mailer, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song, has died aged 84.

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
After several months of building--and the loss of some stock when some unexpectedly wet Sydney weather coincided with some roof work--the Better Read than Dead bookshop in Sydney's Newtown has...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced changes to the way it will distribute payments in the new year. Under CALdirect, a new system to be introduced in mid-2008, members...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
‘I’ve been a ghost for the past eighteen months […] It probably pays less per hour than stitching trainers in the Philippines and it’s been the most unrewarding thing I've...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:St Aubyn takes out French prizeCanadians get 'book rage'Ghosts revealedOphrah withdraws book from websiteUK libraries a new...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Two Australian cookbooks, both published by Allen & Unwin, have received Gold Ribbon prizes at the 2007 Cordon D'Or Culinary Arts awards. Tolarno Bistro by Ian Hewitson and Bob Hart...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Australia's Great Desert Tracks Atlas and Guide by Ian Glover and Len Zell (Hema Maps/Wild Discovery Guides) has taken out two major awards at this year's International Map Trade Association conference,...

Monday, 12 November 2007
Chinese author Jiang Rong has been named as the winner of the inaugural Man Asia Literary Prize for his novel Wolf Totem (Penguin).The Man Asia prize, worth $10,000, intends to...

Monday, 12 November 2007
Poet David Rowbotham has been named as the recipient of this year's Patrick White award.The award, worth $25,000, was established by Patrick White in 1974 to honour writers who ‘had...

Monday, 12 November 2007
The State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the inaugural Inky awards, Australia's first teenage choice book prize. The Golden Inky goes to Notes...

Monday, 12 November 2007
The NSW Writers' Centre has announced the winners of its inaugural genre fiction award, supported by New Holland Publishers.First prize went to Maria Simms for The Dead House; second prize...