Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The Federal Government has announced that the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme will receive ‘ongoing funding'.The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has welcomed the move, saying it will ensure that...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Walker Books has reported strong results for 2006, with turnover up 11% to £53 million (A$116 million) and pre-tax profits up ‘slightly' on last year to £2.9 million (A$6.3 million)....

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Author, playwright and television writer Steve J Spears has died in Adelaide. Spears' books included Mr Edmund, Big Wish and Froggie. He was 56.  

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Australian author Marcus Zusak has picked up another prize: his YA novel The Messenger (Picador) has been named as the winner of the Youth Jury Prize in Germany's Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.The...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
German prize for de KretserThe LiBeraturpreis 2007 Prize has been awarded to Michelle de Kretser for her novel The Hamilton Case (Vintage). The author of three novels, de Kretser also worked...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The bestsellers are quite the mixed bag this mid-October week. Thriller Double Cross by James Patterson makes it to number one, followed by Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney. What...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:New Zealand Library Week 15 - 21 OctoberWalkley Award finalists announced 17 OctoberAustralian Copyright Council training...

Sunday, 14 October 2007
As this year's Frankfurt Book Fair wrapped up last Sunday, Australian attendees and the fair's organisers expressed strong satisfaction with how it has gone.'I walked around Hall 8 [the English-language hall] yesterday...

Thursday, 11 October 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were announced last week in Sweden. This year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature is British writer Doris Lessing, at 87 the oldest person to...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Among stores added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Lawyers want biggest share of a million little refundsThomas new head of MacmillanBBC defends Lonely Planet dealWhitcoulls' purchase...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
'This type of deal is exactly what is needed in today’s market.'--Collins Booksellers CEO Peter Lothian announcing the acquisition of Book City.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
This year's Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest booktrade event, is now underway. Tuesday, the day before the fair's official opening, saw the 21st International Rights Directors Meeting and the 29th International Supply Chain Specialists...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowship winners were announced by the NSW Minister for the Arts, Frank Sartor, in Sydney last night.The annual awards were instituted in 1997...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair 10 - 14 OctoberCAL's Publishers' Career Development grants deadline 12 OctoberRedact Workshop...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Guinness World Records 2008 remains atop the charts for two weeks in a row: it seems people just can't get enough of those jaw-dropping feats. In second position, it looks...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced later this week, and while there isn't a formal shortlist Australian poet Les Murray is widely tipped as...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Elliott Perlman, Tim Winton and Nikki Gemmell have been included on a list of 'the 50 most important writers in the world' compiled by the editors of the French magazine...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has announced the shortlisted titles in its new teenage choice book awards ‘The Inkys'. The Arrival (Shaun Tan, Lothian);...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Empty North: the Japanese Presence and Australians' Reactions 1860s to 1942 (Pam Oliver, Charles Darwin University Press) has been named the winner of the 2007 Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The second New Zealand Book Month, which ran this year from 3 to 30 September, has drawn strong interest from New Zealand readers. The Six Pack Two, an anthology of...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Following its announcement earlier this year that ABC Enterprises would cease audio book production, the ABC's commercial arm has announced a partnership with Vision Australia which promises continued production of...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
‘These guys know what they're doing, they've made it successful so we just want to give them more power to make it bigger and better.'--BBC Worldwide international director Ian Watson,...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest rights fair, officially starts next week on 10 October. This year's Guest of Honour is the Catalan Culture.Seventy Australian and 25 New...