Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Premiers and chief ministers from Australia's states and territories have announced their opposition to 'significant changes' to Australia's parallel importation laws at a meeting of the Council for the Australian...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Dymocks has announced it will close its company-owned flagship Auckland store. The store, which is located in Queen Street in Auckland's CBD, is due to close on 26 June. Dymocks...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Matchbox Pictures has announced that it has secured the rights to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (A&U), to be adapted for television. Matchbox Pictures' Tony Ayres said in a statement: ‘The...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Lonely Planet has launched a ‘Back to the Traveller's Bible' campaign, to promote its comprehensive guidebooks and encourage travel in current economic conditions. Partners in the campaign include Jetstar, and Angus &...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The Church Missionary Society (CMS) has announced that the CMS Bookstore in Brisbane, in its current form, will close. CMS first started a book room in 1944, and has served...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 20 successful applicants for its 2009/10 round of mentorships. The ASA received over 260 entries in the areas of fiction, nonfiction,...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2009 R*BY Awards, this year expanded to four categories. The finalists are:Short Sweet category:The Single Dad's Patchwork Family...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The shortlist for this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced. The shortlist is as follows: Chain Bookseller of the Year 2009, sponsored byPacStreamDymocks Sydney (NSW/ACT)Dymocks Indooroopilly (Qld)Dymocks...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) concluded on Sunday 30 May, having run from 22 May in Melbourne. Festival director David Ryding told WBN: ‘The festival sold out every ticketed event...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Max and Amanda Shirley took over Black Duck Books, in Toronto, New South Wales, on Monday 1 June, renaming it MacLean's Booksellers. The Shirleys have owned a separate bookstore, Maclean's...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Allen & Unwin joins UK Independent Publishers Guild Allen & Unwin has joined the UK-based Independent Publishers Guild (IPG). IPG executive director Bridget Shine said membership offered A&U an in-road...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
It was only a matter of time before much-lauded book The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas reached the top of the charts, in this case the Fastest Movers chart. It could...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of the Arts, NSW, 4-8 JuneEarly bird registration closing date for...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Terry Sturm, literary scholar at the University of Auckland and leading critic of Australasian literature, has died, aged 67. He wrote An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Patrick Gallagher, executive chairman of A&U, writes: ‘We remember Peter Taylor as one of Allen & Unwin's most professional and energetic authors, and are deeply saddened to learn of his...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Sarah Foster from Walker Books writes: ‘It is with great sadness that I advise of the tragic and sudden death of Julie Darragh, former Queensland rep for Murdoch Books and...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
The Coalition for Cheaper Books, which includes the Dymocks bookselling chain, has released a price comparison of a number of books by authors who appeared at the recent Sydney Writers'...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
‘In every company every year there were Australian books that were published that everyone knew would not make money. And they were published because those publishers believed that this Australian...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
In rights news this week: FictionAllen & Unwin has sold US rights to Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas to Penguin (Viking), with Canadian rights going to...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Carleen Bryant, the mother of Martin Bryant, is reportedly suing Fairfax Media over the publication of Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a Mass Murderer (Robert Wainwright and...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
This year's Sydney Writers Festival wound up on Sunday 24 May, having run from Monday 18 May. While many at this year's festival commented that the 2009 program had fewer...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Indigenous Literacy Day patron Therese Rein yesterday launched a new early childhood literacy program that will see sets of board books being given to all children under school age in...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program was again an important part of the Sydney Writers Festival (the annual VIP program alternates between the Sydney and Adelaide festivals). This...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Alexandra Nahlous was announced as the winner of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers' Festival on Thursday 21 May. The Fellowship will fund Nahlous to spend three...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Toyoko Sugiwaka was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year for the book Another Time Past Created (Murdoch Books) at this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Alice Munro wins Booker InternationalPublishing the booziest profession Ingram consolidates divisions into Ingram Content GroupB&T teams with...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Gordon and Gotch has announced that the three principals of book distributor The Scribo Group--Gary Cobbledick, Michael Rakusin and Dale Druckman--will be leaving the business.Gary Cobbledick (Brumby/Bookwise) and Michael Rakusin...