Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Hong Kong Book Fair, 22-28 JulyPoetry for the Poeple--Montana Poetry Day, NZ, 24 JulyNew Voices...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Frank McCourt, who turned his difficult Irish childhood and 30 years teaching in New York into the memoirs Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man, died Sunday July 19 in New...

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Authors on tour in July, August and September: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins  (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the 50ft...

Monday, 20 July 2009
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has acquired the Redfern Legal Centre Publishing imprint and will be publishing the new edition of The Law Handbook and The Family Law Handbook;...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog (with many more to come!)Google settlement: what will happen if it's rejected?Anderson's Free free on Scribd, or is it?Blackwell...

Wednesday, 15 July 2009
'What does the recommendation to review subsidies "with a view to better targeting of cultural externalities" mean. Anyone?'--Meanjin twitter feed, approximately 4.30pm yesterday.

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
FictionNicola Barr at the Susijn Agency has sold Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia, to Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming, to Harvill Secker. The title was published by Sleepers in...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine: Angela Meyer rounds up Father's Day titles, and also food and drink titlesMatthia Dempsey reports on this year's ABA conferencee We take a look...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
HarperCollins has announced that it is ‘restructuring the customer service and credit teams' at the Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) Moss Vale Distribution Centre. The announcement follows the move of...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Susannah McFarlane, former co-owner and publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont, has announced the launch of her new company LemonFizz Media (LFM). The business, which McFarlane said would ‘not be a...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Snakes alive! Medusa by Clive Cussler gets top gong this week in the Highest New Entries chart. The title doesn't relate to snakes however, but a rare blue jellyfish called...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney PEN presents: Max Barry on Risk - Sydney, 15 JulyEltham Bookshop events featuring Malalai...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Exiled author Vasily Aksyonov, who left the Soviet Union in 1980 and lived in the US for more than two decades, has died, aged 76. His work included The Burn,...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Larissa Behrendt has been named Indigenous Person of the Year during the recent NAIDOC Week. The award was announced at the NAIDOC Week ball in Brisbane.Behrendt, whose novel Home won...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
The New South Wales Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced it will be holding a two-day conference in Sydney on 18 and 19 June 2010....

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Melbourne University Publishing has announced its participation in a new series of ‘born digital' fully interactive ebooks, designed to be read on screen. Universitas 21 (U21) is an international network...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009
The ALS Gold Medal for 2008 has been awarded to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (A&U).The judges said of The Slap: ‘There is a raw energy in Tsiolkas' prose that is...

Monday, 13 July 2009
Carolyn Lewis, Spencer Levine and Keely O'Shannessy have been announced as the shortlisted designers for the inaugural Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award. The new New Zealand award...

Monday, 13 July 2009
Tom Griffiths and Robert Kenny have jointly been awarded the 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, for their books Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South) and The...

Monday, 13 July 2009
Barry to deliver Sydney PEN lectureMax Barry will give a lecture on ‘risk' as part of the Sydney PEN Voices project, on 15 July in Sydney and 21 July in...

Monday, 13 July 2009
The longlist for the inaugural John Button Prize, worth $20,000, has been announced.The longlist features 31 titles, representing Australia's best writing on politics and public policy in the past year....

Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Among the many stories added to our around the world blog in the past week:Penguin UK makes 100 redundantAmazon to put ads into ebooks?Amazon hit with billion-dollar tax fine in...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
‘Australia's book industry is waiting anxiously for the release of a Productivity Commission report ... which could change the face of book retailing'--Kerry O'Brien, presenting a report on the parallel...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Specialist in alternative book formats ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has partnered with two more Australian publishers, Fremantle Press and Black Dog Books, to create alternative formats of their titles. Mark Tanner, publisher...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
FictionAllen & Unwin has sold rights to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap to Openhouse publishing in Korea, Mish in Slovenia and Ripol Classic in Russia; and rights to Kate Morton's The...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Chronicles Bookstore in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, closed on 31 May due to an increase in rent. Owners Sue and Ian Boyle ran Chronicles for four years, and the...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
HarperCollins book raises over $300,000 for bushfire appeal HarperCollins has announced that national sales from Black Saturday: Stories of Love, Loss and Courage from the Victorian Bushfires have ‘now contributed...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Lonely Planet opens its world-first concept store today in Sydney Airport's international terminal, as part of Sydney Airport's $500 million International Terminal redevelopment. Lonely Planet and Lagardère Services Asia Pacific...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced a funding concert to take place on 25 August 2009, during Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to raise funds for literary resources in remote...