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...

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...