Tuesday, 11 November 2008
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michael Moynahan as new CEO for Australia and New Zealand. Moynahan, currently managing director for Random House India and chairman of Random House New...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Penguin Australia has announced the creation of a new award to celebrate the 75th birthday of author Bryce Courtenay. The Power of One Australian Hero Award, worth $50,000, is a...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced that the University Co-operative Bookshop Ltd (UCB) has been selected as the preferred tenderer for the operation of the University of Queensland...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Rowling endorses new Potter fan historyMore worries for Borders in the US?Over 100 take voluntary redundancies at...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Ubud Writers' and Readers' Festival attendance up 30%The 2008 Ubud Writers' and Readers' Festival in Ubud, Bali, ran from 14-19 October with its largest ever program featuring over 150 events,...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
This year's Patrick White Award ($30,000) has gone to John Romeril, Melbourne playwright and screenwriter. ‘With the huge significance of his contribution to Australian literature, the relative modesty of his...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The general program for the Perth Arts Festival has been released, with the Perth Writers' Festival component to follow on January 28. The writers' festival will run from 27 February...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The winners of the 2008 Inky Awards have been announced. The Inkys are Australia's teen choice book awards, administered by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature through...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The Guardian's first book award (£10,000/A$23,283) shortlist has been announced, and includes Australian author Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton). The other shortlisted titles are:The Rest is...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Angus & Robertson Ashfield will be closing at the end of the year, after being run as a franchise for eight years by Samira Rezai-nia. Prior to the Ashfield store,...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
One of the highest paying literary awards in the world, the Dylan Thomas Prize (worth £60,000/A$140,000), has been awarded to Melbourne-raised writer Nam Le, author of short story collection The...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
The ubiquitous James Patterson has struck again, with novel Cross Country gracing the top of both the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts this week. Australian author Di Morrissey who...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Northern Notes Writers Festival 2008, 7-16 NovemberSociety of Editors NSW workshop: InDesign for Editors, Sydney,...

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Writer and artist William Wharton (real name Albert de Aime) has died. His novels included Birdy, Dad and A Midnight Clear.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
American literary and cultural critic John Leonard has died. He was 69.

Monday, 10 November 2008
The annual Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference was ‘very successful', ACPA president Graeme Connolly told WBN. The conference, which was held from 5 to 7 of November at the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Westfield charges shock UK retailers New CEO for Reed Elsevier B&N heads warns of tough times...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The five titles shortlisted for the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award have been announced. The award, Australia's richest, is open to any book-length work published in print or electronically in the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The category winners of this year's Western Australian Premier's Book Awards have been announced. The awards recognise the best 2007 book in each category by a Western Australian author or...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Ligare launches new Digital Print FacilityLigare will launch a new ‘state of the art Digital Print Facility (DPF)' at its Riverwood plant on 19 November. ‘Despite the current economic climate,...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Random House Australia has launched a YouTube channel with short book previews, teasers, author introductions and interviews. Random House marketing director Brett Osmond said the channel was about enriching the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that its CEO Jim Alexander has been elected to the Board of the international membership body for rights management organisations. The International Federation...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Lady Cutler Award, which recognises distinguished service to children's literature, primarily in NSW, has been awarded in 2008 to Di Bates. ‘I was so overcome when the phone call...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Nineteen delegates from Scotland and northern UK will arrive in Melbourne on 9 November to meet with Melbourne's literary community. The delegates are from trust organisations, libraries, publishers, festivals, magazines,...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 CAL Waverley Award for Literature, also known as ‘The Nib', has been announced. This is the first year that Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has been...

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
American author Michael Crichton has died, aged 66. Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, as well as Congo and Disclosure, all of which were adapted into films.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The results for the Bestsellers are in for this week and Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict has made it to number one. The irrepressible Stephenie Meyer and Twilight comes in...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey, 1-9 NovemberInky Awards night, State Library of Victoria, 6 November Closing...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Veronica Sumegi, publisher, Brandl & Schlesinger writes: 'It is with great sorrow that we let you know that Jacob G Rosenberg died on Thursday morning in Melbourne, after a heart...