Monday, 30 November 2009
Fantasy author Robert Holdstock has died, aged 61. Holdstock is best remembered for his 'Ryhope Wood' series, including the title Mythago Wood.

Monday, 30 November 2009
Leading Edge Group has announced that Jayne Wasmuth will now remain in the role of general manager until late January, while a replacement is found. In an update on last...

Monday, 30 November 2009
Collins Booksellers has opened in Mackay. The store, which opened on 23 November, is located at the Sydney Street Markets and will be managed by franchise owners Ian and Karen...

Monday, 30 November 2009
Victorian Amanda Wrangles has won the 2009 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto award, presented on Friday 17 November. Wrangles, a former hairdresser who only started writing fiction a year ago,...

Sunday, 29 November 2009
UNSW Press has announced the appointment of Kathy Bail as chief executive, replacing Robin Derricourt. Bail, who has been editor of the Australian Financial Review Magazine since 2006, was a...

Sunday, 29 November 2009
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has awarded its 2009 ASA Medal to children's author Hazel Edwards. Established in 2003, the biennial award recognises ‘an outstanding contribution to the Australian...

Sunday, 29 November 2009
New online ebook retailer eBookBop has launched. The store at www.ebookbop.com.au has been developed by the recently formed Advantage Media Group. ‘We operate with less than 10 staff in all,...

Sunday, 29 November 2009
The limited-edition giant atlas Earth, published by Millennium House, has won the ‘Best Atlas' award at the 2009 International Cartographic Conference. ‘Millennium House is both thrilled and honored to receive...

Thursday, 26 November 2009
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo has announced the first grants to be awarded by the recently created Readings Foundation. The Foundation, officially launched on the occasion of Readings' 40th birthday...

Thursday, 26 November 2009
Where the Streets Had A Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah (Pan Macmillan) is the winner of the $2000 2009 Golden Inky award, voted on by readers of the State Library of Victoria's...

Thursday, 26 November 2009
The Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, a key component in Melbourne successful bid for UNESCO City of Literature status, is to be named The Wheeler Centre after the founders...

Thursday, 26 November 2009
Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan) has won the 2009 Walkley Nonfiction Book Award. The award, announced last Thursday 26 November, recognises ‘excellence in nonfiction literature and long-form journalism'....

Thursday, 26 November 2009
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Public holidays include:Christmas Day: Friday 25 December 2009Boxing Day: Saturday 26 December 2009 (VIC and WA)Boxing Day...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
‘At Text we still hold firm to that old maxim that bad s-x is like bad pizza--it's never that bad,' Nick Cave's Australian publishing team at Text, on the news that...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:  B&N moves to block investorIs Borders UK on the verge of collapse?Universities boycott...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--UQP has sold French rights to The Kiss of Saddam (Michelle McDonald) to Editions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch/Balland and Polish rights of the same title to Swiat...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Readings wins music retailing ARIAReadings Carlton in Melbourne is the winner of the 2009 ARIA Retailer of the Year Award for best independent specialist in Victoria. Other state winners were...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James (Picador) is on the shortlist for the Costa Poetry Prize, awarded as part of the 2009 Costa Book Awards. The collection was described by...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Jayne Wasmuth has announced that she will step down as general manager of Leading Edge Books. Wasmuth, who said she was leaving to pursue other opportunities, told WBN: ‘It has...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Booksellers NZ has announced the ratification of its new constitution, which will come into effect on 1 April 2010. The new constitution reflects a decision by booksellers and publishers at...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Custom publisher Pindar New Zealand has announced that managing director Gerard Reid is ‘stepping down from active management of the business', due to ill health. Reid will be replaced in...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced the appointment of Eloise Nolan to role of rightsholder relations manager. Nolan has been appointed to the position to replace Ross McCaul, who has...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Nick Cave's novel The Death of Bunny Munro (Text) has been named as a finalist in this year's Bad S-x in Fiction Award. ‘At Text we still hold firm to...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Land I Came Through Last (Robert Gray, Giramondo), has won this year's CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. Gray's family memoir was among 160 works nominated for the prize,...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Film rights to Tim Winton's Miles Franklin-winning novel Breath (Penguin) have been acquired by Australian actor Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson. ‘Baker, who has been surfing since childhood, will...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
HarperCollins will establish a new area within the company, charged with ‘finding ambitious innovative solutions', HarperCollins CEO Michael Moynahan has announced. ‘As we pursue growth in an ever-changing market, it is...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Bookglobe Bookshop, an online bookseller based in Sydney, has been launched. The online store, founded by director John Phillip Harding, is a general bookstore with special categories on religious and...