Tuesday, 3 April 2007
There's nothing like a popular movie or TV show to shift copies of the tie-in title, as this week's bestselling titles--Rhonda Byrne's guide to a better life in The Secret...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Among stories added to our Around the World blog this week:Richard Branson speculated as potential buyer for Borders UKScottish Publishers Association undergoes changesFor more details, click here.

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the creation of a new award for Australian fiction, made possible by a $1 million bequest by the late film critic John...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
AsiaLink has announced that its Literature Touring Program, which has supported leading Australian writers to tour in Asia over the past nine years, will finish in June. The announcement comes...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, has announced that the festival will move from its long-standing venue at the Malthouse to Federation Square from 2008. Cameron said the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Big Book Club, a not-for-profit arts-based association that began in South Australia in 2003, has launched in Queensland. ‘We made the decision in 2005 to look at our strategic...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Those planning on attending this year's Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference in June have only one day to take advantage of the ABA's early-bird registration offer, before it closes tomorrow,...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Poet Libby Hart has been awarded this year's Anne Elder Award for her book of poems Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Publications). The prize, established in 1976 and worth...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The winners of this year's Galaxy British Book Awards, the ‘Oscars of the book trade', have been announced. The Dangerous Book for Boys (Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollins) was named...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Canberra-based author Margaret Innes, also known as the crime writer Alex Palmer, is the winner of the inaugural Meanjin/Readings Novella Award presented at the launch of Meanjin's first 2007 issue...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Poet Robert Adamson has won his second Grace Leven Prize for The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions). The award, Australia's oldest annual poetry prize, is worth only $200--funded by the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Publisher and creator of Aduki magazine Emily Clark has announced the launch of Aduki Independent Press, which will publish a range of nonfiction books and essays in addition to the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, Random House) has won the fiction section of this year's Kiriyama Prize with Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ......

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for the CAN$100,000 (A$101,000) Griffin Poetry Prize were announced yesterday. Finalists in the Canadian shortlist were: Airstream Land Yacht (Ken Babstock, House of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Australian Publishers Association held its annual general meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday last week at the Camberwell offices of Penguin Books Australia.In her address, president Juliet Rogers of Murdoch Books...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Millennium House writes: ‘It is with the saddest of hearts that Gordon Cheers advises that Margaret Olds, after having spent many weeks in hospital, has passed away after a prolonged...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Margrete Lamond, publisher at Little Hare Books, writes: ‘It is with great sadness that Little Hare Books joins John Winch's family, the children's book world and the wider artist community...

Monday, 2 April 2007
The 17th Abu Dhabi Book Fair is in full swing this week, with over 400 exhibitors from 46 countries displaying their wares in a vast, brand-new exhibition hall.This fair marks...

Sunday, 1 April 2007
Further to the majority shareholding it took in April 2004 (see WBN 21 April 2004), Bonnier Publishing UK (previously known as Autumn Publishing) has completed its acquisition of Melbourne mass market publisher...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pearson shares rise again on renewed takeover speculationName-change for Warner Books USFor more details, click here.

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
MUP has announced a recall of The Education of a Young Liberal by John Hyde Page. The recall follows the recent ruling by a judge in the civil division of the...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Earnings paid to the family of convicted drug courier Schapelle Corby from the sale of her autobiography My Story (Pan Macmillan) have been frozen by a Queensland court. The Director...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Proposals for a new privacy law by the NSW Law Reform Commission could disrupt Australia's now uniform defamation laws. The proposals, due to be made public ‘within weeks' according to...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Random House has reported a 6.5% increase in revenue to €1.9 billion (A$2.95 billion) for 2006. In what CEO Peter Olson described as ‘a sluggish international marketplace,' Random House has...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
This year's Perth Writers' Week, part of the Perth International Arts Festival, offered ‘a full week of insightful conversation and the opportunity to connect with favourite authors and discover new...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
The ninth annual Leading Edge Books conference took place from 16 to 19 March at the Novotel Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour. ‘The conference has become known as a relaxed...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Jacob Rosenberg has been awarded the National Biography Award for his memoir East of Time (Brandl & Schlesinger). ‘This beautifully crafted book holds extraordinary humanity,' said the judges Morag Fraser,...