Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus) by first-time writer Stef Penney has won the 2006 Costa Book of the Year in the UK, formerly the Whitbread Book of the Year. Also...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The finalists in the annual New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The 2007 finalists are: Picture book: Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! (Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo and John O'Reilly,...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont and its sister company Egmont UK have announced they will be setting up a New Zealand sales and marketing operation. The New Zealand operation will...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Children's and young adult writer Ken Catran has been announced as the winner of the 2007 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand's most prestigious award for children's writers. Catran, who...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Novelist and short story writer James George has been announced as the 2007 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow in New Zealand. The fellowship honours New Zealand author Frank Sargeson and includes...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The Asialink Literature Program has announced the writers who will be awarded grants and residencies as part of Asialink Literature Residency Program, which offers Australian writers the opportunity to experience...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The annual Perth Words & Ideas Festival, part of the Perth International Arts Festival, will be held from 22 February to 28 February. Beginning with a schools day on the...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Scholastic has announced the appointment of Ken Jolly AM, formerly managing director of Scholastic Australia, to the position of chairman, Scholastic Australia and New Zealand. Jolly, who held the position...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The change to 13-digit ISBNs on 1 January 2007 was accompanied by rule changes to the use of ISBNs. Among these, it is now forbidden to reuse an ISBN, even...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The Cambridge Information Group (CIG), parent company of library resource provider CSA (and of WBN's publisher Thorpe-Bowker), has announced the finalisation of its acquisition of ProQuest Information and Learning. The...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The first shot has been fired in this year's Harry Potter price showdown with Dymocks announcing it will sell J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Bloomsbury) for...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Further to last week's story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft's Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details on how Live Search Books...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
There's an eclectic mix of new titles in this week's top 10 bestsellers: some crime fiction, some crime nonfiction and a new diet book (no, it's not the CSIRO Total...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Working Title Press writes: ‘Sue Williams, the co-founder of Omnibus Books and Working Title Press, children's author, publisher, designer and art director extraordinaire, died peacefully on Sunday 4 February after...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Australian historian Noel David McLachlan, author of Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism (Penguin), has died from pneumonia at the age of 79.

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Among the global booktrade stories in our Around the World blog this week:Is private equity firm KKR about to launch a takeover for Pearson/Penguin? Wiley closes Blackwell deal Hachette 'gives' European rights to the...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Those attending The London Book Fair, which will run from 16 April to 18 April 2007 in Earls Court, London, are being encouraged to pre-register before 12 April to receive...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
It's a tale of two Pattersons in this week's highest new entries chart. James debuts at number 13 with Step on a Crack (with a little help from his pal...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Bestselling author Sidney Sheldon has died from complications arising from pneumonia, aged 89. Sheldon first achieved success as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood scriptwriter before turning his attention to novels,...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author Molly Ivins has died of breast cancer, aged 62. Ivins turned ‘Bush-bashing' into an artform with books such as Shrub: The Short But...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
The Kolkata (Calcutta) Book Fair--India's largest international booktrade event--is in chaos after organisers were forced to reorganise this year's fair at the last moment when it lost its venue due...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Vista International and Ingenta, two of the largest international publishing software companies, have announced that they will merge to create Publishing Technologies PLC.The new company will offer ‘a wide range...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Independent Melbourne publisher Wannabee Publishing has changed its name to Vignette Press, in a relaunch announced last Friday 2 February. Publisher Lisa Dempster, who took on management of the publisher...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
The federal government has announced the renewal of the Australia Council's base funding agreement, worth $418 million over three years. The announcement by Arts and Sport Minister Rod Kemp came...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Publisher, lecturer and reviewer Walter McVitty is the winner of the 2006 Dromkeen Medal. The medal is awarded annually for ‘work that makes a significant contribution to the appreciation and...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Australian fantasy author Garth Nix is gaining wide exposure in the United Kingdom as the bookselling chain W H Smith gives away a free copy his novel Mister Monday--the first in...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
The announcement of the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize will take place on 27 May in Jamaica as part of the Calabash International Literary Festival. The Calabash festival,...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Following the passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 by the House of Representatives on 4 December last year, the Copyright Agency Limited is calling for feedback on what stakeholders...

Tuesday, 6 February 2007
The 2007 Somerset Celebration of Literature will be held from 13 March to 17 March this year in the grounds of Somerset College at Mudgeeraba in Queensland. More than 30...