Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Australian author and photographer Jim Powe has died. His book Trains and Railways of Australia was released by New Holland in October last year.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
English historian and author Christopher Hibbert has died, aged 84. His books included The Destruction of Lord Raglan, George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811 and George IV: Regent and King,...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Austrian writer Johannes M Simmel has died, aged 84. He was the author of The Stuff Dreams are Made Of and It Can’t Always Be Caviar.

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:PW editor-in-chief sackedBarry wins Costa iPhone 'will all but destroy traditional publishing'Feb release for Kindle 2.0?Amazon...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale (Longacre Press) has won the 2009 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award in New Zealand. Established in 1997 to commemorate the life and works of...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
On the Jellicoe Road (known as Jellicoe Road in the US) by Melina Marchetta (Viking) has won the 2009 Michael L Printz Award in the US. ‘This roller coaster ride...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
In rights news this week: Children'sClaire Pretyman at Scholastic reports the sale of The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas (Tony Wilson & Sue deGennar) to the UK and...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
The Productivity Commission has now received more than 120 submissions to its study on the laws governing the parallel importation of books in Australia. The study and attendant issues are...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of former Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Visontay as publisher of the newly formed ABC Books division of HarperCollins. Visontay will report to HarperCollins publishing...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
US novelist John Updike has died of lung cancer, aged 76. His most famous works were from his Rabbit series, including the novels Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest,...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Unless you have been living under a rock for while--which sounds rather enticing, not to say cool in this Melbourne heat--you will be familiar with Stephenie Meyer and her dominance...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American poet William DeWitt Snodgrass has died. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, Heart's Needle. Selected Poems: 1957-1987 was published in 1987 and Not...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Les Phillabaum, long-time director of Louisiana State University Press has died, aged 73. During his time at LSU Press he published A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, which...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American journalist and author Malcolm MacPherson, has died, aged 65. He wrote Roberts Ridge, reportage about one of the bloodiest battles of the war in Afghanistan, and Time Bandit about...

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
British poet John Fairfax, who co-founded the creative writing community Arvon, has died, aged 78. Fairfax wrote Bone Harvest Done and Adrift on the Star-brow of Taliesin.

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
American psychologist and author Stanley Fisher has died, aged 81. Fisher was the author of Discovering the Power of Self-Hypnosis.

Monday, 26 January 2009
Central Queensland poet and author Valentine Vallis has died. He wrote the poem 'The Ballad of Changi Chimes'. 

Monday, 26 January 2009
The recipients of some of the most prestigious awards in children's literature were announced on 26 January at an American Library Association mid-winter meeting in Denver.The 2009 winners of the...

Monday, 26 January 2009
Four books have been shortlisted for the 2008 Blake Dawson prize for business literature.They are Rupert's Adventures in China (Bruce Dover, Viking); Good Things Came from Glass (Mal Harrop, MUP);...

Monday, 26 January 2009
Costco to open at second Melbourne locationSpeculation in Melbourne indicates that the US retailer Costco has secured a second Victorian site ahead of a mooted Sydney location, according to Inside...

Monday, 26 January 2009
The winning Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror titles in this years Aurealis Awards have been announced. The 13th annual Aurealis Awards ceremony was held at the Judith Wright Centre...

Monday, 26 January 2009
‘QBD The Bookshop would be one of the biggest winners should this change happen, as we have the size to source stock from overseas and it would make remainder buying,...

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Espresso Book Machine debuts in UK American Booksellers Association CEO to step down Barnes & Noble cuts 'nearly 100' jobs...

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Telecom New Zealand has announced it is closing its online shopping venture Ferrit. Ferrit, an online retail aggregator, included books from stores such as Whitcoulls and online bookseller thenile.com among...

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
In what could be a welcome break from the Stephenie Meyer-induced frenzy currently in the charts, word-nerds can note that the Australian Oxford Mini Dictionary is first in the Fastest...

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Author John Mortimer has died, aged 85. Mortimer was best known as the author of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also wrote Paradise Postponed and many screenplays.

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
American author Hortense Calisher has died aged 97; she wrote the novel Mysteries of Motion.

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Peter Bowron, group managing director of the Random House Group in the UK has died. Bowron worked for Hodder & Stoughton as a graduate trainee and in 1993 joined Simon...