Tuesday, 26 May 2009
After 20 year, distribution of Phaidon Press titles is moving from Bookwise to Penguin/UBD. Penguin Books, in conjunction with United Book Distributors, will be taking over the exclusive sales, distribution...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Jane Curry Publishing delivers the goods this week as My Mum's Got Cancer takes pole position in the Highest New Entry charts. Written by Lucy Blunt, it's a ‘resource for...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Emerging Writers' Festival, Melbourne, 22-31 MayBayside Literary Festival 2009, Melbourne, 22-31 MayConScription--30th National Science...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
David Herbert Donald, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Lincoln, has died, aged 88.  

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Schools program--Melbourne Writers' FestivalThe Melbourne Writers’ Festival (MWF) has announced that its school program will take place in Federation Square from Monday 24 to Wednesday 26 August, with a regional...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Alison Croggon, poet, author, and Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian and the blog Theatre Notes, has been awarded the 2009 Pascall Critic of the Year prize, worth $15,000. The...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Kate De Goldi has been awarded the 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for The 10pm Question (A&U), announced in a ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday 20...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Sydney-based author Julia Leigh has won the £10,000 ($A20,383) Encore Award for a second novel for Disquiet (Penguin).Leigh beat out an international shortlist for the award, judged by Lindsay Duguid,...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
A new creative writing initiative in Victoria--the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards--was announced at the opening night of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne on Friday 22 May. The initiative...

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Ben Naparstek, a 23-year-old, Melbourne-based recent university graduate, has been named the new editor of the Monthly. Morry Schwartz, publisher of the Monthly, told the Age he was ‘thrilled’ with...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Scribd to open internet storeKindle publishing now open to blogsAmazon launches publishing program: AmazonEncoreSelf-publishing takes the lead...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Eye of the Storm: the 2009 Northern Territory Writers' Festival concluded on 4 May, having run from 1 May in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Workshops, panels, readings, poetry slams and literary activities...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced in a unanimous decision. The winners were:Nam Le (The Boat, Penguin)Alice Nelson (The Last...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
‘Good writing exists in public notices or on heartbreaking lost dog posters. It exists where you find it. It is not beholden to its surroundings. It even exists under the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
ABC Commercial has launched a ‘new look' concept store at Bondi Junction in Sydney. The store, which was unveiled last Friday, is the first of the ABC's stores to feature...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Author and former HarperCollins associate nonfiction publisher Sally Collings has announced the launch of a new publishing venture with her husband Robert Collings. The venture, Red Hill Publishing is a...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
In rights news this week: FictionRandom House has sold Stillwater Creek by Alison Booth to France (Stillwater Creek is a recent acquisition for Random House Australia from agent Lyn Tranter...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Random House Australia (RHA) has unveiled its new website in a ‘soft launch', with bugs to be ironed out in coming weeks and further developments to come in June and...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Two bookshops close in LismoreDymocks CEO Don Grover confirmed the closure of the Dymocks store in Lismore in New South Wales, telling WBN the Lismore franchisee made the decision to...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Some of Queensland's best authors will participate in community events across the state, riding a Q150 steam train from 1 to 6 June. The authors include novelist Matthew Condon, children's...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Publishing 101 and its distributor Gary Allen, has recalled the book 2008 V8 Supercars Yearbook (Wensley Scott), requesting returns of any unsold stock from booksellers. The publisher states the reason...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A new, Australian-owned site called The Reading Room is joining the slate of book networking sites in existence. The creation of Kim Anderson (former Southern Star and Nine Network executive)...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Award winners have been announced. Nam Le won both the Book of the Year Award ($10,000) and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The judging panel for the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary awards has been announced. Six cultural and literary experts will form two panels for fiction and nonfiction categories providing the 'Prime...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Following the renewal of funding for the Books Alive campaign for another four years, announced in last week's federal budget, director Cheryl Akle reports the 2009 campaign is travelling well....

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Dymocks has reopened in Brisbane in a small temporary store ‘almost diagonally opposite' the old Edwards street store. ‘It's about fifty metres across the road from where we were, so...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Dymocks will open a new store in the Wellington CBD area ‘as soon as possible', following the closure of its Lambton Quay franchise on Monday, according to Dymocks CEO Don...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Christos Tsiolkas has won the Overall Best Book Award for The Slap (A&U) in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP), announced on Saturday at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. The...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (AWRF) concluded on Sunday, having run from 13 to 17 May. The organisers have called it a ‘momentous success' with attendances up 89% on...