Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The winners of the 2007 Audies--the ‘Oscars of the audiobook industry'--were announced on 4 June at a gala ceremony hosted by Jim Dale, the narrator of the US editions of the Harry...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers and straight-down-the-line thrillers feature in this week's highest new entries chart. Maverick detective Harry Bosch is back in Michael Connelly's The Overlook, the adventures of vampire slayer Anita...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Former bookseller Elaine Storey writes: ‘It is with great sadness that I inform the book trade that Merv Storey died in hospital on 9 June at the age of 90.Merv...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
American philosopher and writer Richard Rorty, whose large body of work includes the study of philosophy Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press) and collection of essays Consequences...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Author Salman Rushdie will now be known as ‘Sir Salman' after being knighted for his services to literature, announced in the UK Queen's Birthday honours list. Australian comedian and writer...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
With the exception of chairwoman Kate Darian-Smith, the board of the literary magazine Meanjin has reportedly been dismissed by Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis. The move comes after the board's...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Richard Flanagan (pictured), Elliot Perlman, Kate Jennings and Georgia Blain are all reportedly set to move to Random House from Picador, following publisher Nikki Christer, who has begun her new...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it will hold twice-yearly, state-based forums ‘where issues and ideas can be canvassed.' ‘We welcome not just the APA delegate [from each member company] but...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Hachette Livre Australia publisher Bernadette Foley has been appointed the Australian publisher for the Orbit science fiction list. The new position, which is in addition to Foley's current role, will...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a new ‘comprehensive title download service', DataPage. The service, which was launched on 18 June at the ABA conference in Melbourne, is part...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Media commentators fear a ruling by Australia's High Court that a restaurant review was defamatory has set an unwelcome precedent for reviewers in all fields. The 6-1 ruling found that...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Susan Duncan's Salvation Creek (Bantam) was announced as the winner of the 2007 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award at the Booksellers' Dinner held as a central social event of this year's...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
‘I've not yet met a bookseller who's cynical or who's lost their passion for books.'--Susan Duncan, on accepting the Booksellers Choice award for Salvation Creek at the ABA conference's Booksellers'...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
The ABA conference program included Monday's very well-attended trade display day, featuring over 70 publishers, distributors, non-book suppliers and service providers. There was a strong crowd all day, with conference delagates boosted by...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Spielberg buys film rights to ‘The Unknown Terrorist'Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Studio has reportedly paid ‘a massive sum' to secure the film rights to Richard Flanagan's novel The Unknown Terrorist (Picador).The...

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Pearson has received the necessary approvals from the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to allow it to finalise the acquisition of Harcourt Education in Australia and New Zealand, concluding...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The campus bookselling chain United Campus Bookshops fears several of its NSW TAFE bookshops with contracts currently under review by the NSW education department may be set to close at...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Reuters on HP discountingCharkin 'borrows' Google computers at BEAEgmont and Bonnier merge in Denmark and SwedenPoet is...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been announced as the second recipient of the Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 (A$135,000).Achebe is known as 'the father of modern African literature'. The...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
'There were lots of books we rejected--about personal female issues, the loss of a child, the break-up of a marriage, thinly veiled autobiographical things of no consequence...'Orange Prize judge Muriel...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
There's nothing like a little murder and mayhem to while away the winter nights. Dead bodies, missing persons and battle-weary detectives characterise this week's top 10 with new entries from...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Peter Temple is the first Australian author to be shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (formerly know as the Gold Dagger).Temple's The Broken Shore (Text)...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
RFID roll-out in librariesAll public libraries in the ACT and a number in Victoria are moving quickly to implement RFID technology. The ACT Library and Information Service received $1.6 million...

Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Colette Vella, editorial manager at Murdoch Books, has been awarded 2007 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship, which was announced at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 1 June, recognises editors...