Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The federal opposition has joined the government in pushing for a national curriculum for Australian schools. The Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced the opposition's plan for a consistent curriculum on...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The winners of India's Hutch Crossword Book Awards were announced on 21 February in Mumbai. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, Faber) won the English fiction award, with Vikram Seth's family history...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Canada-based media group Torstar, owner of romance publisher Harlequin/Mills & Boon, has described 2006 as a ‘challenging' year in announcing its annual results. Net income for the year was down CAN$ 39.7 million...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), US-based parent company of the Australian distributor Bookwise, has reached an agreement with US wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) on the sale of certain AMS assets. However,...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
With summer officially over it's time for booksellers to start preparing for the next big sales event: Mother's Day. The bestseller charts are brimming with potential titles. Xmas bestsellers and...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Professor David Myers, publisher of Central Queensland University Press imprint Outback Books, has died from complications related to his battle with a brain tumour. CQU Vice-Chancellor Professor John Rickard writes:...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Pan Macmillan writes: ‘Billy was not just one of the country's rock 'n' roll legends, he was also a very successful author. His two books Sex and Thugs and Rock...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
American historian and author Arthur Schlesinger has died from a heart attack, aged 89.An influential liberal voice in US politics, Schlesinger once served as special assistant in the Kennedy White...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Among the stories recently added to our 'Around the World' blog:new CEO for Reader's DigestB&N forecasts a flat yearSharemarket pundits say 'sell Borders'Random's Rebuck says market remains tough Google Book Search...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is facing a defamation suit from Kyle Kutasi, who objects to a number of passages referring to him in John Hyde Page's memoir The Education of a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Random House has struck a deal with Sir Richard Branson to acquire 90% of his publishing imprint Virgin Books.The agreement includes a five-book deal for Branson and his retaining 10%...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Total international revenue for Simon & Schuster rose six percent in 2006, to US$807 million (A$1 billion), and operating profit increased four percent, to US$68.5 million (A$85.8 million). In the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Following last week's announcement by HarperCollins of a ‘widget' to enhance its Browse Inside digitisation program, Random House has launched its own ‘widget', called Insight.Insight is currently available for 5000...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Philip Roth has won the PEN/Falkner award for the third time; Lord George Weidenfeld, co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson has...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
HarperCollins (HC) has announced an addition to its ‘Browse Inside' digitisation program with the release of a free ‘widget' that can be used to add Browse Inside content to personal...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Campbell Mattinson has been announced as the winner of the The Saltram Wine Communicator 2006 Award, Australia's top wine-writing award. Mattinson's Wine Hunter (Hodder), a biography of winemaker Maurice O'Shea of...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The Classification Review Board (CRB) has banned The Peaceful Pill Handbook--a book on euthanasia co-written by euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke. The ban follows complaints from the Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The Japanese edition of Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, by Australian author Ben Hills (Random), has been cancelled by publisher Kodansha after much controversy in recent weeks.Hills has...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The elegant ballroom of Melbourne's Windsor Hotel was the setting for this year's Dromkeen Medal presentation and dinner, held on 23 February and hosting some 167 guests from all realms...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Mind-body-spirit (MBS) book distributor Brumby Books has merged with New World Music Australia.The new company is known as Brumby Books & Music.‘Brumby Books & Music is Australia's premier independent MBS...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Despite full-year results showing ‘a fairly tough year' for the company as a whole, culminating in a drop in net profit of 44% on 2005, Funtastic Publishing had ‘another great...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Spanish-language titles and authors will again be a hot topic at the London Book Fair, to be held from 16 to 18 April at Earls Court, following the announcement that...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Lonely Planet has been named Top Guidebook Series for the fourth time in UK travel magazine Wanderlust's annual awards-voted on by almost 3000 consumers. However, runner-up Doling Kindersley, which produces...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has raised concerns over aspects of proposed Government legislation that could mean that all books will have to be classified.Senator Helen Coonan, the minister for...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Pearson Group, parent company of Penguin and Pearson Education in Australia, has reported its 2006 preliminary results, which indicate that while overall profits for the group declined 29% on the...