Tuesday, 10 July 2007
The organisers of the Melbourne Writers' Festival have announced an impressive line-up of crime authors for this year's festival. Dorothy Porter, Shane Maloney, Gabrielle Lord and newcomers Leah Giarratano and...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Speaking during an Australian Publishers Association (APA) seminar in Melbourne on 27 June, APA CEO Maree McCaskill urged publishers to find their common interests in order to present a united...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has announced it will provide a Melbourne studio apartment to support the work of the May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust. The East Malvern apartment will...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (Text) has been named the winner of this year's Duncan Lawrie Dagger--previously known as the ‘Gold Dagger'--by the British Crime Writers Association (CWA). Temple is...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Twenty authors will participate in nearly 100 public events during this year's Books Alive campaign, starting on 25 July. ‘It is particularly exciting to have such a large contingent of Australian...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Jasmin Chua, a senior editor at Hardie Grant Books, is one of 18 recipients of this year's Frankfurt Fellowships. The Fellowships allow a young publisher to travel to Germany for...

Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Reed Gift Fairs in Brisbane, which runs from 14 to 17 JulyPublishing the Story of the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the last week:US Big Read scheme to grow to 400 citiesEspresso Book Machine prompts PoD debateMore disappointing results for...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP) has announced the appointment of Mary-Anne Paton as CEO, effective 9 July, as well as its new trading name, Fremantle Press. Paton, who has...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The shortlist for 15 of the 18 awards to be presented at this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced. The winners of these 15 awards, as well...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Campus Bookseller+Publisher, the magazine which attempts to explain the book industry to decision-makers on campus, will be published again this year, following concerns about its future in 2006.The magazine, a supplement of...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced that 20 countries from the Arab-speaking world will be the market Focus for the 2008 fair.A three-day cultural program during the fair (April...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
The Schumann Frequency by Christopher Ride, the first title to be featured on the ‘Book Choice' television advertisements, has come in at number six on the Neilsen BookScan ‘fastest movers'...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Carpentaria, the 2007 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2007 Australian Literatures Society (ALS) Gold Medal for ?an outstanding literary work published in the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Gary Cobbledick, group managing director of Bookwise International, has announced the departure of Bookwise managing director Patricia Genat, who has led the company since 2003. Genat, who has steered the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
‘It long ago became tedious to ask: why so much fuss about Harry Potter? The question brands you as the same kind of person who claims not to get what's...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Booksellers NZ has released the final program for its 2007 conference, to be held in Auckland on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 July, and is now accepting registrations.Highlights of the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Melbourne will have a new writers' festival next year with the inaugural Writers at the Convent, to be held at the historic Abbotsford convent arts precinct in mid-February.Writers at the...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
A loyal fan base, combined with a big-budget publicity campaign (when was the last time you saw a book ad on the back of a tram!), has seen Janet Evanovich's...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Tokyo International Book Fair from 5-8 JulyAPA Industry Forum in Perth on 11 JulyTo view these...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Neville Peat, author of the award-winning Wild Dunedin (Otago University Press), has been awarded the NZ$100,000 (A$85,000) Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship. The fellowship, New Zealand's richest literary award,...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
The 2007 Cape Town Book Fair, which ran from 16 to 19 June, was ‘an unprecedented success' according to the organisers. The second annual Cape Town Book Fair hosted 349...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
With The Secret dominating the bestseller chart for the ninth week running, it seems more and more likely that it will take something as big as a new Harry Potter...