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...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Sydney bookstore Books Kinokuniya was named Australian American Express Best Recreational Retailer last Tuesday at the 2007 National Rewards for Excellence Awards.Store manager Steve Jones told WBN: ‘We are about...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Two Australian authors, Will Elliot and Terry Dowling, have made the shortlist of the International Horror Guild Awards in its auspicious thirteenth year.Elliot's much-awarded debut novel The Pilo Family Circus...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Out Stealing Horses (Vintage), described as ‘a poignant and moving tale of a changing perspective...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The readers of American sci-fi and fantasy publication Locus Magazine have cast their votes in this year's Locus Awards. Best science fiction novel went to Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge, Tor), best fantasy novel...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The winners of the 2007 Audies--the ‘Oscars of the audiobook industry'--were announced on 4 June at a gala ceremony hosted by Jim Dale, the narrator of the US editions of the Harry...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers and straight-down-the-line thrillers feature in this week's highest new entries chart. Maverick detective Harry Bosch is back in Michael Connelly's The Overlook, the adventures of vampire slayer Anita...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Former bookseller Elaine Storey writes: ‘It is with great sadness that I inform the book trade that Merv Storey died in hospital on 9 June at the age of 90.Merv...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
American philosopher and writer Richard Rorty, whose large body of work includes the study of philosophy Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press) and collection of essays Consequences...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Author Salman Rushdie will now be known as ‘Sir Salman' after being knighted for his services to literature, announced in the UK Queen's Birthday honours list. Australian comedian and writer...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
With the exception of chairwoman Kate Darian-Smith, the board of the literary magazine Meanjin has reportedly been dismissed by Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis. The move comes after the board's...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Richard Flanagan (pictured), Elliot Perlman, Kate Jennings and Georgia Blain are all reportedly set to move to Random House from Picador, following publisher Nikki Christer, who has begun her new...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it will hold twice-yearly, state-based forums ‘where issues and ideas can be canvassed.' ‘We welcome not just the APA delegate [from each member company] but...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Hachette Livre Australia publisher Bernadette Foley has been appointed the Australian publisher for the Orbit science fiction list. The new position, which is in addition to Foley's current role, will...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a new ‘comprehensive title download service', DataPage. The service, which was launched on 18 June at the ABA conference in Melbourne, is part...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Media commentators fear a ruling by Australia's High Court that a restaurant review was defamatory has set an unwelcome precedent for reviewers in all fields. The 6-1 ruling found that...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Susan Duncan's Salvation Creek (Bantam) was announced as the winner of the 2007 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award at the Booksellers' Dinner held as a central social event of this year's...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
‘I've not yet met a bookseller who's cynical or who's lost their passion for books.'--Susan Duncan, on accepting the Booksellers Choice award for Salvation Creek at the ABA conference's Booksellers'...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The ABA conference program included Monday's very well-attended trade display day, featuring over 70 publishers, distributors, non-book suppliers and service providers. There was a strong crowd all day, with conference delagates boosted by...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Spielberg buys film rights to ‘The Unknown Terrorist'Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Studio has reportedly paid ‘a massive sum' to secure the film rights to Richard Flanagan's novel The Unknown Terrorist (Picador).The...