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...

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...