Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Donna Hay has been named as one of the ‘Magnificent Seven' of ‘the best cookbook authors in the world' by the Gourmand Awards.Hay joins cookbook gurus including Alain Ducasse, Claudia...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Attorney-general Philip Ruddock has asked the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OLFC) to review a decision allowing the local distribution of a book by euthanasia advocate Dr Phillip Nitschke.Ruddock...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Susie Haselhurst, the general manager of Broome-based Indigenous publisher Magabala, is one of the recipients of the inaugural round of scholarships awarded by the Australian Arts Business Foundation (AbaF), funded...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
HarperCollins has announced that is has bought a stake in NewsStand Inc., the company that helped it develop its digital warehouse, and that together they will offer other publishers what...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
American sci-fi writer, futurist, counter-culture commentator and conspiracy theorist Robert Anton Wilson has died, aged 75. Best-known for the ‘Illuminati' series (co-authored with Robert Shea, New Falcon Publications), which combined...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Events surrounding the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of US-based company AMS, the parent of Bookwise and of Publishers Group West, are moving quickly.Among developments in the last week, the Perseus Books...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
As we found during our post-christmas survey of the trade, one bookseller's dissapointment is another's bestseller. Many of the titles that appear on the bestsellers chart this week popped up...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
In news from our Around the World blog since our last issue: HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan sacked in the wake of the O J Simpson book controversy; the Nestle children's...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
US-based Advanced Marketing Services declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 30 December, owing publishers worldwide over US$100 million (A$124 million). AMS owns a number of book-related companies around the world, including...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Mary Dalmau and Rosie O'Connor of Reader's Feast write: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Mr. Maurie Craven on Sunday 7 January 2007. Mr. Craven...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
The staff at Harcourt Education extend their heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Neil Curtis, an extremely talented and much loved illustrator. Neil passed away on Monday...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
New Zealand author Fleur Beale has won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book for her first novel for children Slide the Corner (Scholastic), first published in...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Beginning this year, the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival will become an annual event, expanding to a four-day program, including readings, workshops, poetry events, panel discussions and interviews. The festival...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
South Australian playwright and script editor Roxxy Bent has won Sisters in Crime's 13th Scarlet Stiletto Award by taking out the HarperCollins-sponsored first prize of $750--plus scarlet stiletto trophy--in the...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Plans for a  month of events to ‘nurture, showcase and celebrate the literary arts' to be held on the Sunshine Coast in June this year were announced in late December....

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Kate Crawford was the winner of the individual 2006 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award for Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood (Macmillan), with the group award given to...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
German publisher Tandem has announced its Könemann list will be renamed Ullmann, following the departure from the company on 18 December of consultant Ludwig Könemann, from whom the list took...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Independent UK publisher Profile Books has bought fellow independent publisher Serpent's Tail for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will add fiction to Profile's list. ‘This is one of the great...

Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Madison Press Books, the ‘book packager' behind titles including Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall's Sexual Intelligence and Being a Girl (both Hardie Grant), has announced a buyout by...

Monday, 1 January 2007
Adelaide-based distributor Bookwise is confident about its future, despite its US-based parent company Advanced Marketing Services (AMS) filing for bankruptcy under the US Chapter 11 law.'The Chapter 11 filing will have...

Thursday, 21 December 2006
J K Rowling has announced that the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter will be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.Bloomsbury has not yet received the completed manuscript...

Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Social entrepreneur and Anglican clergyman Nic Frances has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues for his submission The End of Charity (developed...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
The booksellers who responded to our annual pre-Christmas survey certainly know their stuff. Seven of this week's top 10 bestsellers also appear in our survey's list of hot Christmas sellers....

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
In the news from our Around the World blog this week: Lawrence Ferlinghetti receives top French honour; Bloomsbury shares drop following a profit warning; Random House revives Bodley Head; a...