Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol triumphs again in the Bestsellers at number one, followed by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson. The Highest New Entries chart...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Nominations close for 2010 Adelaide Festival awards for literature, 30 OctoberApplications close for Readings Foundation...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Author of the wildly popular Tully and The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons is now in Australia to promote her new novel A Song in the Daylight. Local fans will be...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
US children's book author Norma Fox Mazer has died, aged 78. She wrote more than 30 picture books and novels for young readers, including After the Rain.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room) Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem) Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings) Roland Perry,...

Monday, 26 October 2009
‘Print publishing will be seriously disrupted long before ebooks are used by "most people." That's because print publishing is a "critical mass" business: we need to sell enough to make...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Ligare has announced the appointment of Wayne Bywater as general manager. ‘Wayne's appointment is more like a homecoming, having worked for Ligare 15 years ago, leaving to pursue his management...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Bruce Caddy joins Marbecks for new concept storeNew Zealand music retail chain Marbecks will open a new concept store in Dunedin in mid-November. ‘This store will be the first Marbecks...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Google announces new 'Google Editions' ebook store Barnes & Noble launches 'nook' ereader Friedman launches new ditial publishing company Claudio Magris...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Lonely Planet has announced it will host an ‘open hack day' at its Melbourne offices on the weekend of 7 and 8 November, offering 100 Australian developers ‘full, unfettered access...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Thorpe-Bowker has announced that Angela Meyer will be taking on the role of acting editor of Bookseller+Publisher magazine. Meyer, who has worked as editorial assistant on the publication for the...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
It's a girlish week at the top of the charts--Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is number one in the Bestsellers (overtaking The Lost Symbol by Dan...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--UWA Publishing has sold rights for The Seamstress (Geraldine Wooller) to Salento Books in Italy.Nonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold Great Rivals in History: When Politics Gets...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Annual Family Therapy Conference--presenting the Annual Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature, 20-22 OctoberFlight of...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
If anyone's been wondering what local author Mandy Sayer has been up to, wonder no longer. She's been busy editing The Australian Long Story, which is now available in bookshops....

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author Stuart M Kaminsky has died, aged 75. He wrote more than 70 novels including Bullet for a Star.

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
American author and reporter Nan Robertson who wrote The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times has died, aged 83.

Sunday, 18 October 2009
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book industry event, closed on Sunday 18 October. After five days packed with meetings, seminars and other events (and of course dinners,...

Saturday, 17 October 2009
Australian authors Shaun Tan and Marcus Zusak have been announced as winners at the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious awards for children's and YA books.The awards ceremony, held as part...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the winners of its annual ‘Book of the Year' Awards. The awards, which began in 2003, are intended to highlight books that can ‘assist children's...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
A shortlist of 17 print, audio and film works in the running for the 2009 NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. The shortlists include: Australian History Prize ($15,000)Travels in...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Booksellers New Zealand has announced it plans to launch a new weekly newsletter and website on Thursday 22 October. The newsletter, to be called The Read, will combine the organisation's...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The nominees for this year's Walkley Awards were announced on Wednesday night, 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Macmillan)To...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Penguin Group has announced changes to its global management structure that will see Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne taking on regional responsibility for Asia Pacific. Under the new structure, Coyne...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Lonely Planet appoints new head of US operations Douglas Adams a hit on iPhoneGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterates opposition to Google...