Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has died of cancer at the age of 73. As the Polish Press Agency's sole foreign correspondent during the 1960s and 70s, Kapuscinski travelled...

Monday, 29 January 2007
The NSW Writers' Centre has added a new event to its calendar: the Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival.The inaugural Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival will be held on Saturday 26 March, with...

Monday, 29 January 2007
Young Australian Muslim author Randa Abdel-Fatah has been named on the longlist for the UK's deciBel Writer of the Year award, for her debut YA novel Does My Head Look...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Fiona Henderson has been appointed as a publisher at Hachette Livre Australia.‘Fiona's appointment, along with Vanessa Radnidge's recent promotion to publisher, effectively doubles Hachette's commissioning capacity and, along with a...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Hardie Grant Books MD Julie Pinkham has announced a number of recent appointments and promotions.Fran Berry has been promoted to publishing director. ‘Fran will now lead the publishing endeavours of...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Mark Scott has been formally appointed as general manager of Funtastic's publishing division.Scott has been acting in the role for the last four months, overseeing a restructure of Funtastic's publishing...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The big Christmas sellers continue to wield their influence on the bestsellers charts this week; looks like all those people who weren't lucky enough to find a copy of The...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The winners of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals have been announced at the American Library Association's midwinter conference in Seattle.The Newbery winner is Susan Patron for The Higher Power of...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The shortlists for the Aurealis Awards, Australia's premier awards for speculative fiction, have been announced.With 12 categories covering science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and short stores for adults and...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The Perseus Books Group has made a formal offer for all of the distribution contracts of US distributor Publishers Group West (PGW), which has been caught up in the Chapter...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has condemned the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul last week.IPA spokesperson Bjorn Smith-Simondsen said in a statement: ‘He was a free...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Among a bumper crop of overseas news in our Around the World blog this week:Da Vinci Code copyright appeal opensAre literary prize nominations contractual obligations?Pearson reveals digital plansHC closes down...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include the International Book Fair in Cairo, which runs from 23 January until the 4 February;...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Children's book author and editor Ann Philippa Pearce has died of a stroke at the age of 86. Pearce produced more than 30 children's books during her career, including the...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Aside from the post-Christmas blockbusters lurking in the Top 10, the Fastest Movers tell an interesting story this week--Hardie Grant Egmont titles to entertain the kids; a new dictionary for school;...

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
In articles added to our 'Around the World' blog in the past week:Sobol Award canned; Costa Award category winners; a new Canadian book promotion.Click here for more. 

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...