Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Anti-smoking guru Allen Carr, author of the bestselling Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Easyweigh to Lose Weight (both Penguin), among other self-help titles, has died of lung cancer at the...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
American expat writer Curtis Cate, who lived in France for much of his life, has died at the age of 82. Cate was the author of several memorable biographies on...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
The International Publishers Association (IPA), International PEN and human rights organisation ARTICLE 19 have written to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging him to lift the Procedural Guidelines for Publication issued...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
The successful graduates selected to receive six months' paid work in the New Zealand book industry as part of the industry's Publishing Intern Programme, are Alex Collins at Learning Media,...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
The administrators of remainder wholesaler Australian Book Centre (ABC*), which went into administration in April this year, have released a follow-up report, showing that all employee entitlements have now been...

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
The liquidators of library supplier Identic Books (which went into liquidation in November 2005) have released a report, showing that an outstanding ‘priority claim' made by former company director Greg...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Elisabeth Holdsworth is the winner of the inaugural Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay for her work titled ‘An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After', after Bertolt Brecht's poem...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Last week the Public Lending Right annual report revealed Bryce Courtenay's dominance in the library charts. This week he's topped the bestseller charts with Sylvia, the story of an eccentric...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Holger Ehling reports from the Guadalajra Book Fair:If you run a book fair and you manage to get three Nobel prize-winning writers to be part of a star-studded opening event,...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
American writer, publisher and Dr Seuss-collaborator Phyllis Cerf Wagner has died at the age of 95. Wagner co-founded the Random House imprint Beginner Books with Dr Seuss and his wife,...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Journalist and author Malcolm Knox has been appointed to the board of directors for Australian copyright management company Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).  Knox said in a statement that he looked forward...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
ABC Enterprises, the commercial division of the ABC, has appointmented Harcourt Education Australia as publisher of its educational products for distribution to the Australian education sector. 'We are very proud to...

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Charts published by the Sydney Morning Herald last weekend alongside its book critics' ‘books of the year' selections offer an indication of 2006's bestselling titles.The BookScan charts, covering the period...

Monday, 4 December 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Rosemary Neil explores the dearth of Australian literature courses; Amazon expands its print-on-demand function; jail for a vanity publisher; Rivergroup...

Monday, 4 December 2006
The Copyright Amendment Bill was passed in the Senate on Friday 1 December, with amendments. Due to the amendments the bill will go back to the House of Representatives this...

Monday, 4 December 2006
An e-book collection has won the prize for the best STM (science, technology and medicine) information product in the 2006 International Information Industry Awards held in London on 29 November....

Monday, 4 December 2006
New Zealand authors Judith Binney, Patricia Grace and Vincent O'Sullivan are the winners of this year's New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement. The awards, worth $60,000 (A$49,800), recognise...

Monday, 4 December 2006
Oxford University Press has announced that Melinda O'Donnell, previously secondary publishing manager at Thomson Learning Australia, has joined the company as secondary director. O'Donnell is joined by Lee Walker, formerly...

Monday, 4 December 2006
Packer's Lunch, Neil Chenoweth's examination of the Australian power players of the '90s (Allen & Unwin), has won this year's Walkley Award for best nonfiction book. The award was presented...

Monday, 4 December 2006
Australia will be the Focus Country at the 2007 Kolkata (formerly ‘Calcutta') Book Fair.Eleven Australian authors will participate in events at the Kolkata fair, to be held from 31 January...

Monday, 4 December 2006
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Ian Jack to step down as editor of editor of UK literary journal Granta; a new survey says most adults...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
A pre-election proposal from the newly re-elected Labor state government in Victoria promises a $9 million package ‘to support writers, literary organisations and festivals' in a bid to have Melbourne...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
The new State Library of Queensland building at Brisbane's South Bank was opened to the public on 25 November. The refurbished five-level building includes an ‘Infozone' with a wireless area,...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Limelight Press has announced that it will close at the end of 2006, after six years of operation. Jayne Denshire, who founded the press together with co-director Helen Bateman, said...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Literary agent Lyn Tranter has described as ‘gutless' the decision by Scholastic Australia to cancel publication of Army of the Pure by author John Dale. The children's book, commissioned by...

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
The eighth annual Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow, held at the Leichhardt Town Hall in Sydney last weekend was ‘a great success', according to Irina Dunn, executive director of the...