Tuesday, 1 August 2006
Emily Maguire's debut novel Taming the Beast (Brandl & Schlesinger) has been included on the longlist for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize.Named in honour of the Welsh poet, the £60,000 (A$140,000)...

Tuesday, 1 August 2006
The International Digital Object Identifier Foundation, which manages the worldwide Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registry, has announced a number of fresh milestones.A DOI is a unique identifier (similar to an...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Peter Field, chief executive of Pearson Australia Group, has been appointed to the position of chief executive of Penguin UK. Field, who has been with Pearson and Penguin in Australia...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
This week's top 10 bestsellers look an awful lot like last week's: same titles, different order. But it won't be long before Pirateology breaks through--surely. Hovering at number 11, the latest title in the popular...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Finding the online resources you need to do your job can be time-consuming. And then, of course, you've got to remember to bookmark all those web addresses in your 'favourites'...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
In news from overseas this week Waterstone's parent company HMV confirms Simon Fox as its new CEO, Amazon moves into the world of online infotainment and rumours abound that Apple...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Australia Post's decision to scrap its international economy air service, effective 4 September, has surprised and angered booksellers. ‘There was no warning, and absolutely no consultation,' Barbara Cullen, chief executive of the Australian...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
J C Burke has been awarded the annual Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature for The Story of Tom Brennan (Random House). Mother's Day by Anne Brooksbank (Puffin Books)...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Good Night, Me by Andrew Daddo, with illustrations by Emma Quay (Hachette) has been chosen as the book for this year's National Simultaneous Storytime. National Simultaneous Storytime is organised by...

Tuesday, 25 July 2006
The Australian newspaper is showing a great deal of interest in the book industry of late.The week before last, it caused a minor storm of its own by submitting a...

Monday, 24 July 2006
The inaugural episode of ABC TV's new book show, The First Tuesday Book Club, will screen next Tuesday night, 1 August, at 10pm.The show will be hosted by Jennifer Byrne...

Monday, 24 July 2006
The future of the Ned Kelly awards, Australia's awards for crime writing, has been assisted with a sponsorship plan supported by a number of publishers.The awards, known colloquially as ‘the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
Jillan Ewart of Booksellers NZ reports:‘The Sky's the Limit' was the theme for the Booksellers New Zealand conference held on 23 and 24 July in Auckland.The reference was to the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
Maurice Gee's novel Blindsight (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of the Deutz Medal, the top prize of the annual Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Blindsight also won the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
New Zealand's book trade awards were presented as part of the Booksellers NZ annual conference. The awards are all sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker.Bookseller AwardsIndependent Bookshop of the Year: Unity Books, Wellington...

Monday, 24 July 2006
The winner of the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers Choice Award for 2006 is He'll be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men (Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins NZ).

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Want know what's happening in book markets around the world? It's now only a click away.Our new service includes an online overseas news 'blog,' Around the World. You can access...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
It's been a big week for pirates and boy wizards. Harry Potter has topped the bestseller charts once again with the release of the paperback edition of his penultimate adventure...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
John Ritchie, history professor, author and one of the longest serving editors of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (MUP), has died in Canberra, aged 65. Other publications include the popular...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Chinese language teacher and author Tsai-Hsien Chang has died in Melbourne, aged 86. Chang was the author of several English and Chinese language publications, including an abbreviated Chinese translation of...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
In overseas news this week, Borders has confirmed that former Saks department store executive George Jones is the company's new CEO; publisher reactions to UK bookseller Waterstone's takeover of the...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Joy Damousi, author of Freud in the Antipodes: The Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press) is the winner of the 2006 Ernest Scott Prize. The prize, which is...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
With Children's Book Week approaching rapidly (19 to 25 August), the New South Wales branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced a number of Book Week author...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Film Victoria confirmed last week that a feature film based on Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are (Random House) will be made in Melbourne. The Warner Bros....

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
The 13th Tokyo International Book Fair wrapped up on Sunday 9 July after four busy days. The Fair attracted a record number of attendees: almost 50,000 including publishing professionals, librarians,...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Hard-boiled crime writer Mickey Spillane, the creator of legendary private eye Mike Hammer, has died aged 88.Spillane's first Mike Hammer book, I, the Jury (in The Mike Hammer Omnibus vol...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
South African author Mary Watson has won this year's £10,000 (A$23,300) Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Jungfrau'.The Caine Prize is often referred to as ‘the African...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh have been granted leave to appeal the breach of copyright case they lost against Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and publisher Random House...