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...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Books Alive ambassador for 2007 Peter FitzSimons will hit the road throughout July and August to talk about his new book, The Ballad of Les Darcy, which is available for...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Bloomsbury), an account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, has been named the 2007 winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
More that 210 publishers, printers and designers attended this year's Galley Club Awards night in Sydney on the 15th of June, which showcased ‘excellence in book and magazine production.' Icons +...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Just in Case (Meg Rosoff, Puffin) and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (Mini Grey, Random House) have won this year's CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, respectively....

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Pearson Group, which acquired Reed Publishing New Zealand (RPNZ) as part of its purchase of Harcourt Education in May, has confirmed its commitment to 'preserve and grow' the iconic Reed...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog this week:Authors' Guild tries to kill 'dead celebrities' billMicrosoft signs digitisation deal with IngramDoes iPhone launch bring 'iPod for ebooks'...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Sci Fi conference goes onlineAugust's Conflux 4 science fiction convention will be held entirely online, according to the ABC.Richard & Judy pick MortonThe Shifting Fog by Australian author Kate Morton...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Little Hare Books, the Australian children's book publisher, has signed a deal with Trafalgar Square Publishing/IPG to distribute its titles in the US and Canada. Rod Hare, co-founder of Little...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
In the forthcoming episode of ABC TV's ‘First Tuesday Book Club', to be screened on 3 July, the following book club titles will be announced: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
The Great War (Les Carlyon, Macmillan) and Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (Peter Cochrane, MUP) are the joint winners of the inaugural $100,000 Prime Minister's Prize for History.Carlyon told...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: APA Industry Forum in Melbourne on 27 June APA Industry Forum in Adelaide on 28...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Paul Hodder-Williams, chairman of Hodder & Stoughton from 1960 until his retirement in 1975, has died, aged 97.Grandson Jamie Hodder-Williams writes in Publishing News: ‘He was a mine of publishing...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
As it celebrates 200 years in business, John Wiley & Sons has announced record annual results for 2006-07, topping US$1 billion in global revenue for the second year in a...

Tuesday, 26 June 2007
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is extending its review into the proposed joint venture between printing companies McPherson's and Griffin Press, citing concerns that the joint venture ‘will...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Allen & Unwin, which publishes the Harry Potter series in Australia, has announced a competition to win a trip to London to see J K Rowling on the eve of...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The University of Western Australia Press (UWA Press) has announced the appointment of Kate McLeod as editorial manager and the departure of long-term staff members Janine Drakeford and Maureen de...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:announcement of the Miles Franklin Award on 21 JuneAPA Industry Forum in Brisbane on 25 JuneAPA...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Is Amazon Kindle e-reader and e-book catalogue set for release?Questions raised on latest Google deal with librariesAmazon...