Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Much-loved children's author Mem Fox was inducted into Speech Pathology Australia's Hall of Fame for her ‘significant contribution to children's language and literature' as part of the organisation's Book of...

Monday, 23 July 2007
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Tug of rights: US and UK publishers continue to face off over rightsGranta and Portobello come togetherReed...

Monday, 23 July 2007
The 2007 books Alive campaign was officially launched by Minister for the Arts and Sport George Brandis at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney last night. ‘Books Alive aims...

Monday, 23 July 2007
The 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were presented by the Minister for Arts and Sport, Senator George Brandis at a ceremony at the Sofietel Wentworth Hotel in Sydney last...

Monday, 23 July 2007
Little, Brown buys PiatkusThe Little, Brown Book Group has bought British independent publisher Piatkus. Founder Judy Piatkus will continue as MD until the end of the year, when she will retire...

Monday, 23 July 2007
George Melly, the English jazz singer, writer, wit, raconteur, surrealist and fly-fisherman, has died, aged 80. While known primarily as a performer, he also wrote a number of books, including Revolt...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Hong Kong Book Fair, which runs from 18 -  23 JulyAustralian Book Industry Awards, to be...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
No prizes for guessing what title will be sitting atop the charts when this weekend's sales results eventually filter through to the BookScan charts, but Mr Potter is already putting...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week are:PW and PN combine for Frankfurt dailiesBorders to offer free mobile contentNyeko wins 'African Booker'Brown family seeks...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The US schools publishing businesses of Harcourt have been sold to competitor Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep for US$4 billion (A$4.4 billion). The purchase concludes the sale by Reed Elsevier of Harcourt Education, following...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has decided to end its annual bestseller survey, which it has conducted for almost 20 years.

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
A 75-year-old Tintin book has landed its publisher Egmont in hot water in the UK and US amid claims of racism. Tintin in the Congo, originally published in French in 1931, only become available...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The Australian Society of Authors writes: We note with respect the passing of Glenda Adams. Glenda, born in 1939, died on 11 July 2007 in Sydney. She had been ill...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Fiona Schultz, Managing Director of New Holland Publishers, writes: it was with great sadness to hear of the passing of Stan Zemanek. Stan was diagnosed with an aggressive form of...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The Little Big Book Club, a not-for-profit arts organisation created in 2006 to ‘encourage parents and caregivers to read regularly to their children from an early age' has announced a...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
While book publishing�so far has not been as affected by the advent of the web and digisation as other media industries, it was unrealistic to expect that situation to last,...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Hardie Grant Books managing director Julie Pinkham has announced that the publisher will establish a sales and marketing operation in New Zealand from 1 September. Hardie Grant will appoint a...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
This year's Australian Book Industry Awards will be held this coming Tuesday, 24 July, at the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel in Sydney. The night will see the presentation of the Pixie...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
James Halliday's Wine Atlas of Australia (Hardie Grant) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Louis Roederer International Book of the Year 2007 award.The Wine Atlas is the only Australian book...

Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Sydney-based author Neal Drinnan is one of the recipients of the 2007 Lambda Awards, the world's key gay and lesbian literary awards.Drinnan won the Lambda for fantasy and horror writing...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Romance author Kathleen E Woodiwiss, who was credited with inventing the modern historical romance novel, died last week at the age of 68. 'We all owe our careers to her,'...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Well, Channel 9 may not be winning the television ratings war in the manner to which it was once accustomed but it seems readers are happy to give it a...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
'Muggles, do you know what this chamber of secrets is?'--in the lead-up to HP7, the Sunday Age tries its best to make the relatively un-magical ADS warehouse into an object...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Among the new items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Meagre marketing returns from 'social web'BEA to Las Vegas in 2011New study shows huge potential growth...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Following its acquisition of Harcourt Education in May, Pearson Australia has announced a number of redundancies in the senior management group at Harcourt. ‘As previously announced we will be integrating...