Australia’s booksellers have had another strong Christmas, with over 40% of respondents to WBN‘s post-Christmas survey saying that the season was ‘excellent’, and two-thirds reporting... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog since our last issue: HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan sacked in the wake of the O J Simpson... Read more |
As we found during our post-christmas survey of the trade, one bookseller’s dissapointment is another’s bestseller. Many of the titles that appear on the bestsellers... Read more |
The staff at Harcourt Education extend their heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Neil Curtis, an extremely talented and much loved illustrator.... Read more |
New Zealand author Fleur Beale has won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book for her first novel for children Slide the... Read more |
Beginning this year, the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival will become an annual event, expanding to a four-day program, including readings, workshops, poetry events, panel... Read more |
South Australian playwright and script editor Roxxy Bent has won Sisters in Crime’s 13th Scarlet Stiletto Award by taking out the HarperCollins-sponsored first prize of... Read more |
Plans for a month of events to ‘nurture, showcase and celebrate the literary arts’ to be held on the Sunshine Coast in June this year... Read more |
Kate Crawford was the winner of the individual 2006 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award for Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood (Macmillan), with... Read more |
German publisher Tandem has announced its Könemann list will be renamed Ullmann, following the departure from the company on 18 December of consultant Ludwig Könemann,... Read more |
Independent UK publisher Profile Books has bought fellow independent publisher Serpent’s Tail for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will add fiction to Profile’s list. ‘This... Read more |
Madison Press Books, the ‘book packager’ behind titles including Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall’s Sexual Intelligence and Being a Girl (both Hardie Grant),... Read more |
Adelaide-based distributor Bookwise is confident about its future, despite its US-based parent company Advanced Marketing Services (AMS) filing for bankruptcy under the US Chapter 11 law.... Read more |
J K Rowling has announced that the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter will be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury has... Read more |
Social entrepreneur and Anglican clergyman Nic Frances has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues for his submission... Read more |
Melbourne’s Technical Bookshop closed its doors on 23 December last year, after trading under family ownership since 1941. The business went into voluntary administration in... Read more |
Mary Dalmau and Rosie O’Connor of Reader’s Feast write: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Mr. Maurie Craven on Sunday... Read more |
US-based Advanced Marketing Services declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 30 December, owing publishers worldwide over US$100 million (A$124 million). AMS owns a number of book-related... Read more |
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