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...

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Pulitzer-prize winning US author Studs Terkel has died, aged 96. His books included Division Street: America and For The Good War: An Oral History of World War II.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Milton Katseles, acting teacher, director and founder of Skylight Books in Los Angeles has died, aged 75.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Crikey publisher Eric Beecher will head up the inaugural board of the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. The centre is part of Melbourne's winning UNESCO City of Literature bid....

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Wendy Were has announced that she will not be renewing her contract as festival director of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) for the 2010 festival and beyond. ‘While delighted at...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
‘You can't just retreat ... and hide and cower until it's all over. You still have to assume there's a market for good books'--Scribe Publications' Henry Rosenbloom on the global...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Google to settle Book Search lawsuitsCanada again suffers from exchange-rate woesPublishers look to the Middle EastOprah endorses...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Man Asia Literary Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The five books are Alfred A Yuson's The Music Child; Miguel Syjuco's Illustrado;...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
A booklover with a background in retail, management and software development has launched a new online bookshop, The Mighty Tiny Book Shop. While the store began as a way for...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
The winners of the 2008 New South Wales children's choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs,) were announced on 22 October. Authors such as Duncan Ball, Ursula Dubosarsky,...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
The winners of the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and History Fellowships have been announced. The awards were presented by the NSW Premier and Minister for the Arts, Nathan Rees...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Due to next Tuesday's Melbourne Cup Day public holiday in Victoria, next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 6 November. Please note that the deadline for classifieds...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Dymocks has announced it will unveil a new ‘branding and visual identity' in November. The new logo and identity is based on the tagline ‘the love of books' and all...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Nothing like a new Maeve Binchy title to give the charts a shake-up. Heart and Soul by the aforementioned Irish writer has claimed number one spot in both the Bestseller...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Debate: Will parallel imports kill publishing in Australia? Melbourne University, 30 October Closing date for...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Amruta Slee from HarperCollins writes: Esther Deans--author, gardener, cook and poet--has passed away aged 97. Esther’s bestselling books about no-dig gardening had made her a household name, and her robust...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
American book publishing executive Dan Harvey has died aged 62. During his career, Harvey created publicity and marketing campaigns for many of America's bestselling authors, including Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell,...

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Novelist Tony Hillerman has died aged 83. His titles included The Blessing Way, People of Darkness and Skinwalkers.  

Wednesday, 22 October 2008
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Coehlo celebrates selling 100 million booksShatzkin and 'the Copernican change'British Library acquires Hughes archiveFilm of Coetzee book wins Middle East...

Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The shortlist for the NSW Premier's History Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles were chosen from 268 audio/visual and book entries. Each of the book prizes is worth $15,000...

Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Financial journalist Alan Kohler will succeed Robert McKay as Melbourne University Publishing's chair of the board of directors in December. Kohler, who has been a director of Melbourne University Publishing...