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...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars (Picador) was voted Victoria's favourite story set in Victoria in the inaugural Reading Victoria program at the State Library of Victoria. The library's reader development program...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Hardie Grant Egmont is targeting young girls with big dreams in some of its latest releases. And it seems to be working. Total Girl Star School and Go Girl! Music...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Joseph Low, an American children's book illustrator best known for his 1981 Caldecott honor book Mice Twice (S&S), has died at the age of 95. Low also created illustrations for...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Penguin brings a little romance to the charts this week with two new titles in the top 10 bestsellers. Plum Lovin' is a between-the-numbers novel in Janet Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Allen & Unwin has announced the appointment of former Random House executive publisher Jane Palfreyman as publisher. ‘I have always been a huge admirer of Jane and the stellar list...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book and best first book awards regional shortlists have been announced. The following books have been shortlisted for the South East Asia and South...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The Berkelouw family, which operates three Berkelouw Booksellers stores in New South Wales, will open a fourth store in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale in late March, with a further...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Reed Elsevier has announced it is looking for a buyer for Harcourt Education, which has operations in Australia and New Zealand as well as in the UK, US and South...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
McGraw-Hill Education (MHE), which has operations through Asia, Europe the US and South America, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, reported a drop in total revenue of 5.5%...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The independent press Hybrid Publishers, established in 1998, is to launch a new imprint, Ford Street Publishing, with the release in June of Before the Storm by Sean McMullen. Author Paul...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Scorching temperatures in Melbourne did not keep the city's booklovers away from this year's Writers at Como festival, held from 16 to 18 February at the historic Como House. ‘If...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:IPA, PEN and AAP condemn Turkish penal codeDisney loses Winnie the Pooh copyright caseGoogle loses Belgian newspaper...