Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Penguin brings a little romance to the charts this week with two new titles in the top 10 bestsellers. Plum Lovin' is a between-the-numbers novel in Janet Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Allen & Unwin has announced the appointment of former Random House executive publisher Jane Palfreyman as publisher. ‘I have always been a huge admirer of Jane and the stellar list...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book and best first book awards regional shortlists have been announced. The following books have been shortlisted for the South East Asia and South...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The Berkelouw family, which operates three Berkelouw Booksellers stores in New South Wales, will open a fourth store in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale in late March, with a further...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Reed Elsevier has announced it is looking for a buyer for Harcourt Education, which has operations in Australia and New Zealand as well as in the UK, US and South...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
McGraw-Hill Education (MHE), which has operations through Asia, Europe the US and South America, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, reported a drop in total revenue of 5.5%...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The independent press Hybrid Publishers, established in 1998, is to launch a new imprint, Ford Street Publishing, with the release in June of Before the Storm by Sean McMullen. Author Paul...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Scorching temperatures in Melbourne did not keep the city's booklovers away from this year's Writers at Como festival, held from 16 to 18 February at the historic Como House. ‘If...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:IPA, PEN and AAP condemn Turkish penal codeDisney loses Winnie the Pooh copyright caseGoogle loses Belgian newspaper...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The finalists in the 55th Australian Book Design Awards have been announced. See below for a full list of nominated titles (cover/internal designer and publisher listed in brackets). The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Publisher and distributor Herron Books and remainder wholesaler Wiltshire Books are set to merge on 1 March.‘Both businesses have a strong background in value books and it is a natural...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Funtastic has been approached by a potential takeover bidder, believed to be a private equity group.Funtastic ‘has only just commenced considering the proposal' from the unnamed bidder and ‘has had...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The 2007 Perth Writers' Week, part of the Perth International Arts Festival, begins on Thursday 22 February.Offering ‘a full week of insightful conversation and the opportunity to connect with favourite...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Two Australian writers have been nominated for the Bram Stoker Awards, a key international prize for horror authors presented by the US-based Horror Writers' Association.Stephen King expert Rocky Wood has...

Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Literary agent Jenny Darling writes: ‘It is with much sadness I am writing to let you know that Elizabeth Jolley passed away last week.‘I had the privilege of working with...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Among stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Wal-Mart faces lawsuit from two million womenTime Warner adds $530 million to Lagardere's bottom lineFour publishers take half...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), the US-based parent company of Australian distributor Bookwise, has entered into a letter of agreement with book distributor Baker & Taylor to allow B&T to purchase the...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The annual Overstock and Remainders Fair (OARF), facilitated by Bookwise Australia, was this year held in Melbourne at the Rydges Hotel on 11 and 12 February. The third OARF, which...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Writers at Como festival, which runs from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 February; and...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
More than 1000 library and information professionals gathered in Sydney from January 30 until 1 February for Online, the biennial conference examining the future of the industry. Conference convenor Kay...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Two of Australia's leading library bodies have combined to launch a special promotion for Valentine's Day, highlighting Australians' dedication to libraries.Public Libraries Australia and ALIA are holding Library Lovers Day...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Speculation has been mounting in recent weeks over a possible takeover bid for Pearson, parent company of Penguin and Pearson Education. A Reuters report on 17 January 2007 noted that...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
‘Small technical issues' that have emerged in the final development of DataPage have delayed the service's launch in Australia and put back the proposed launch of the TitlePage service in...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus) by first-time writer Stef Penney has won the 2006 Costa Book of the Year in the UK, formerly the Whitbread Book of the Year. Also...

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The finalists in the annual New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The 2007 finalists are: Picture book: Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! (Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo and John O'Reilly,...