Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Bob Bryant from Quarto Marketing Australia writes: ‘Steve Evans, managing director of QED Publishing, has died in London after battling cancer for the past eight months. He was 49. Steve...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Author, art historian and former professor Donald Harington has died, aged 73. He wrote 15 novels about a fictional town called ‘Stay More'. His last novel, Enduring was published this...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, WBN is giving away some vampire books with a difference. To be in the running for one of two eight-title packs of Madman Entertainment's Manga Vampire series,...

Monday, 16 November 2009
The Books Alive campaign will be renamed ‘Get Reading' after wide industry consultation and the use of the phrase as a slogan during the 2009 campaign. The name change will...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The PMP printing group, which acquired the Scribo distribution business under its Gordon & Gotch subsidiary earlier this year, will launch a new retail website to sell books, CDs, DVDs,...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Murdoch Books has announced it will be responsible for sales and distribution of Black Dog Books titles from 1 February 2010. ‘New titles publishing from 1 February 2010 will be...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon launches 'Kindle for PC' app Google Settlement extension granted Borders to close 200 stores...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Canberra to host Spring Poetry FestivalThe ACT Writers Centre will host a Spring Poetry Festival this weekend from 13 to 15 November. The festival will include the announcement of the...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Penguin New Zealand publishing director Geoff Walker has said The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera (Raupo) will not be withdrawn from sale, following the author's admission that the novel includes...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
‘Well, we'll just start drinks early I guess'--Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) president Graeme Connolly after a presentation on the parallel importation debate failed to draw as many questions as...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Lorraine McGee-Sippel is the winner of the 2009 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. McGee-Sippel is the author of Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?,...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Social networking book site Booktagger has launched a new affiliate program that will reward users whose recommendations lead to a book sale. ‘Community members recommend books to their extended social...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The titles shortlisted for this year's Walkley Nonfiction Book Award have been announced. In the running for the award are: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan)The Mother of Mohammed...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Beverley Farmer is the winner of this year's $25,000 Patrick White Literary Award. ‘Farmer is not a prolific writer but rather an intense, meditative and gifted stylist,' said judges Debra...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Fantasy fans will be happy that Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm has reached number one in the Highest New Entries and number three in the Bestseller charts...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Information evening for the Professional Writing and Editing course at Chisholm Institute, Frankston, VIC, 12...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough) Judy...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Peter Carey continues his reign of the Most Mentioned chart in MX this week. His new book Parrot and Olivier in America has been receiving some very positive reviews. The...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Author Esther Hautzig has died, aged 79. She wrote The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia as well as A Gift for Mama and A Picture of Grandmother.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK 'bestsellers' selling fewer copiesMacmillan US contract sparks ebook royalty debateNook e-reader is B&N's biggest...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Young Australian author Matthew Reilly casts aside Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and other contenders for first place with The Five Greatest Warriors nabbing top spot in both the Bestsellers...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ACBA annual conference, Brisbane, 4-6 NovemberRoom to Read event--Books: Bridges to Beyond, Sydney, 5 NovemberMelbourne...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough) Judy...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The wife of the late and legendary Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, has sanctioned Eoin Colfer to write the sixth novel in what isn't...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Fergus Barrowman, publisher, Victoria University Press writes:(From the Booksellers NZ website) 'We are tremendously sad to tell you of the sudden death of Heather McKenzie, in the very early hours...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
French anthropologist, philosopher and author Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. Among other titles, he wrote a four-volume work called Mythologiques about the structure of native mythology in the Americas.