Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The 87th annual Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Wellington on Sunday and Monday. While the general feeling in the NZ trade is that times are tough--one industry veteran...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night. The winner of the $5000 Eureka Street/Reader's...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The inaugural Crime & Justice festival, presented by Reader's Feast Bookshop, was held at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent over the weekend.The festival, which combines the two themes of crime fiction and...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Churchill fellowship to State Library of South Australia directorThe director of the State Library of South Australia Alan Smith has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship in the recent announcement from...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Harry Potter on the top of the charts again?! Hold onto your hats, it's not a new one from J K Rowling but her most recent--Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'A Night of Wine and Crime', Mornington, VIC, 24 JulyByron Bay Writers' Festival, Byron Bay,...

Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) has won the 10th Anniversary BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction.Rosie Boycott, chair...

Wednesday, 16 July 2008
After a long process of refinement the first accreditation examination for editors wishing to be accredited by the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is scheduled to be held in Sydney...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The UK publication Publishing News announces it is to closeRandom House sells its US book clubsPublishing revenue down...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
In the past week the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has met with both Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett and Brett Gale, chief of staff to the assistant treasurer and...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The BBC, which last year acquired a 75% controlling share in Lonely Planet, has released its annual report, which shows the travel publisher made a loss of £2.1 million (A$4.3...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Call to ban Nitschke bookThe sisters of an Australian woman who committed suicide using the drug Nembutal, have called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to ban Philip Nitschke's book Killing Me...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The Waverley Council's literature award, formerly known as the Westfield/Waverley Library Award will now be known as ‘The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. The new name reflects the...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Germaine Greer and Augusten Burroughs will open this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. Greer, whose essay On Rage is due to be published by MUP in August, will deliver a keynote...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Frances Fyfield was announced the winner of the £20,000 (A$39,000) Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Blood From Stone (Little, Brown) at an awards ceremony held in London on July...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Vintage) has been named the winner of a public poll to determine the ‘Best of the Booker'. Rushdie's novel beat Booker-winning novels by Australian authors...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
It's a female-centric Highest New Entries chart this week with Lipstick Jungle, Sex Lives of Australian Women and The Low GI Diet making the cut in the top 10. The...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Crime and Justice Festival, Melbourne, 18-20 JulyMelbourne Festival of Travel Writing, Melbourne, 19-20 JulyNew Voices...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Novelist and founding member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Sue Alexander has died, she was 74. Her books included Behold the Trees, Lila on the...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Dutch novelist Janwillem van de Wetering, best known for his ‘Amsterdam Cops' series, has died, he was 77.

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Publisher and author Francis ‘Phil’ Englehardt, Jr., has died at the age of 53. He founded Revolution Booksellers in the US and wrote MotorcycleMan: Restless and its sequel, MotorcycleMan: Voodoo...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Author Hila Colman, who wrote more than 50 books for young adults, has died aged 98. Some of her titles included; The Girl from Puerto Rico, Sometimes I Don't Love...

Tuesday, 8 July 2008
'What is "open" about Australian-published books not being able to be sold in the USA or the UK, but American, British or any other English-language edition from anywhere being able...

Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Minimum wage impact ‘negligible': ABAMonday's minimum wage rise--a boost of $21 a week for low income earners--is unlikely to affect the book industry, according to Australian Booksellers Association CEO Malcolm...

Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Lonely Planet will open its first ‘concept store' at Sydney airport next year, the travel publisher has announced. Part of the airport's $500 million redevelopment, the shop will serve as...