Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Federal Government has issued a reminder to all employers that new record-keeping obligations required under the Work Choices legislation will be enforced after 27 March.The requirements, related largely to...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced.The six titles are:Arthur Tange (Peter Edwards, A&U)Mr Stuart's Track (John Bailey, Macmillan)The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Author Lloyd Jones has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency for 2007.Jones will spend a year in Berlin from August, where he will work on a new...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Books Alive has announced that Peter FitzSimons will be the ambassador for its fifth national campaign, running from Wednesday 25 July to Friday 31 August.FitzSimons' new book, The Ballad of...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The online newsletter Crikey yesterday published a copy of a draft version of the government's proposed legislation aimed at making classification of content ‘technology neutral'.Margaret Simons, writing in Crikey, said...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The 10 finalists in this year's Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton); Stick out Your Tongue (Ma Jian, Vintage); Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
According to a report in the Age, Nikki Christer, Picador publishing director at Pan Macmillan, has announced her resignation from the company. Christer denied that she would be filling the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Luck in the Greater West, by 37-year-old Damian McDonald, was announced as the winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award at an award ceremony in Sydney last night. McDonald, a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The federal opposition has joined the government in pushing for a national curriculum for Australian schools. The Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced the opposition's plan for a consistent curriculum on...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The winners of India's Hutch Crossword Book Awards were announced on 21 February in Mumbai. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, Faber) won the English fiction award, with Vikram Seth's family history...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Canada-based media group Torstar, owner of romance publisher Harlequin/Mills & Boon, has described 2006 as a ‘challenging' year in announcing its annual results. Net income for the year was down CAN$ 39.7 million...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), US-based parent company of the Australian distributor Bookwise, has reached an agreement with US wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) on the sale of certain AMS assets. However,...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
With summer officially over it's time for booksellers to start preparing for the next big sales event: Mother's Day. The bestseller charts are brimming with potential titles. Xmas bestsellers and...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Professor David Myers, publisher of Central Queensland University Press imprint Outback Books, has died from complications related to his battle with a brain tumour. CQU Vice-Chancellor Professor John Rickard writes:...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Pan Macmillan writes: ‘Billy was not just one of the country's rock 'n' roll legends, he was also a very successful author. His two books Sex and Thugs and Rock...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
American historian and author Arthur Schlesinger has died from a heart attack, aged 89.An influential liberal voice in US politics, Schlesinger once served as special assistant in the Kennedy White...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Among the stories recently added to our 'Around the World' blog:new CEO for Reader's DigestB&N forecasts a flat yearSharemarket pundits say 'sell Borders'Random's Rebuck says market remains tough Google Book Search...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is facing a defamation suit from Kyle Kutasi, who objects to a number of passages referring to him in John Hyde Page's memoir The Education of a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Random House has struck a deal with Sir Richard Branson to acquire 90% of his publishing imprint Virgin Books.The agreement includes a five-book deal for Branson and his retaining 10%...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Total international revenue for Simon & Schuster rose six percent in 2006, to US$807 million (A$1 billion), and operating profit increased four percent, to US$68.5 million (A$85.8 million). In the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Following last week's announcement by HarperCollins of a ‘widget' to enhance its Browse Inside digitisation program, Random House has launched its own ‘widget', called Insight.Insight is currently available for 5000...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Philip Roth has won the PEN/Falkner award for the third time; Lord George Weidenfeld, co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson has...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
HarperCollins (HC) has announced an addition to its ‘Browse Inside' digitisation program with the release of a free ‘widget' that can be used to add Browse Inside content to personal...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Campbell Mattinson has been announced as the winner of the The Saltram Wine Communicator 2006 Award, Australia's top wine-writing award. Mattinson's Wine Hunter (Hodder), a biography of winemaker Maurice O'Shea of...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The Classification Review Board (CRB) has banned The Peaceful Pill Handbook--a book on euthanasia co-written by euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke. The ban follows complaints from the Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The Japanese edition of Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, by Australian author Ben Hills (Random), has been cancelled by publisher Kodansha after much controversy in recent weeks.Hills has...

Tuesday, 27 February 2007
The elegant ballroom of Melbourne's Windsor Hotel was the setting for this year's Dromkeen Medal presentation and dinner, held on 23 February and hosting some 167 guests from all realms...