Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Among the many new items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US book market flatCensorship concerns over Canadian court case82% of book buyers prefer printHas Microsoft...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Two very different books vie for top spot in the Highest New Entries chart this week but with somewhat similar subject matter. Patricia Cornwell's The Front deals with crime and...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Book Expo America, Los Angeles, 29 May – 1 June Closing date for Vignette Press...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
While final audience numbers will not be available for at least a week, Sydney Writers' Festival artistic director Wendy Were told WBN she was ‘thrilled with the success of this...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Reuben Crossman was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year award for Movida (Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish, Murdoch Books) at the 2008 Australian Publishers Association's (APA) Book...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival on Friday.  The winners were: Max Barry (Company, Scribe)Belinda...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
In an unusual move for an Australian publisher Fremantle Press has announced it will make e-book copies of Hal Spacejock 1 available free online from June. The e-book giveaway coincides...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley is the winner of this year's New Zealand Post Book of the Year prize. The title, which is illustrated by Gavin Bishop, ‘impressed the...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Among the resolutions made at the recent congress of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in Korea was one calling on the ‘Burmese, Chinese, Iranian and Vietnamese governments to engage and implement...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Author behind Gun Alley murder pardonResearch by author Kevin Morgan and used for his book Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice (S&S) has led to the pardoning of...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Hachette UK clashes with AmazonBarnes & Noble CEO keen to see an end to returnsPoD publishers sue...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
This year's Sydney Writers Festival officially kicked off with an address by Jeanette Winterson at the Sydney Opera House last night, with an opening party held later in a newly re-purposed space at Pier...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
To see the details of all the international booktrade stories we've noted in the past week, see our Around the World blog. 

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Somewhat predictably, Tim Winton's Breath hit number one in the Bestsellers and Fastest Movers charts this week. Fellow Australian icon, albeit in the musical sense, Jimmy Barnes' self-titled book came...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers' Festival, Sydney, 19-25 MayAPA Book Design Awards presentation, Sydney, 22 May'Story of the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Mary Dalmau manager of Reader's Feast writes on the passing of Nuala O'Faolain: 'When Nuala O'Faolain visited our bookstore in Melbourne, Australia on the release of her book, Are You...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Michelle de Kretser pocketed $50,000 at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards on Monday, winning both the Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($40,000) and Book of the Year ($10,000) for her third...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
The autobiography of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is be released overseas and on Amazon by Mainstream Publishing. Proceeds from My Story (Pan Macmillan) were frozen last year after the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Sonya Hartnett flies to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lingren Memorial Award--and around A$844,000--from HRH Crown Princess Victoria in a lavish awards ceremony. The fuss won’t stop there for...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Total prize money across the 11 award categories in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards has been doubled to $290,000, the state’s arts minister announced at the awards on Monday night.‘It is appropriate that the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008
More Ozlit in NSW schools?Future NSW Year 10 students will have to have studied at least four Australian books, poems or plays under changes proposed by state education minister, John...

Monday, 19 May 2008
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced changes to make the travel funding it provides to publishers ‘more flexible.' BOOKED: International Travel Fund for Publishers and Literary Agents is...

Monday, 19 May 2008
The overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes were announced on Sunday 18 May at the Franschloek Literary Festival in South Africa. The Book of Negroes by Canadian author...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The ABC has flatly denied a report in the Sydney Morning Herald that it would be closing its 43 stores around Australia. The report in the SMH and the Age...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Several big names are in the running for the Australian Literary Society's 2008 Gold Medal. The award for an 'outstanding Australian literary work', which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year,...

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Tim Winton's lauded Breath gets pipped at the post by the relentless 4 Ingredients in the Bestseller charts this week, though it does come first in the Highest New Entries....

Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Last day of the International Publishers Association's 28th Congress, Seoul, 15 MayAuckland Readers and Writers...