The first shot has been fired in this year’s Harry Potter price showdown with Dymocks announcing it will sell J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and... Read more |
The second annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), previously scheduled for 25 July 2007, will now be held the evening before on 24 July. The... Read more |
Scholastic has announced the appointment of Ken Jolly AM, formerly managing director of Scholastic Australia, to the position of chairman, Scholastic Australia and New Zealand.... Read more |
The annual Overstock and Remainders Fair (OARF), facilitated by Bookwise Australia, was this year held in Melbourne at the Rydges Hotel on 11 and 12... Read more |
‘Small technical issues’ that have emerged in the final development of DataPage have delayed the service’s launch in Australia and put back the proposed launch... Read more |
Further to last week’s story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft’s Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details... Read more |
The annual Perth Words & Ideas Festival, part of the Perth International Arts Festival, will be held from 22 February to 28 February. Beginning with... Read more |
More than 1000 library and information professionals gathered in Sydney from January 30 until 1 February for Online, the biennial conference examining the future of... Read more |
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), the US-based parent company of Australian distributor Bookwise, has entered into a letter of agreement with book distributor Baker & Taylor... Read more |
The Asialink Literature Program has announced the writers who will be awarded grants and residencies as part of Asialink Literature Residency Program, which offers Australian... Read more |
The finalists in the annual New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The 2007 finalists are: Picture book: Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! (Kyle Mewburn,... Read more |
Two of Australia’s leading library bodies have combined to launch a special promotion for Valentine’s Day, highlighting Australians’ dedication to libraries. Public Libraries Australia and... Read more |
The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus) by first-time writer Stef Penney has won the 2006 Costa Book of the Year in the UK, formerly the Whitbread... Read more |
Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont and its sister company Egmont UK have announced they will be setting up a New Zealand sales and marketing operation.... Read more |
Children’s and young adult writer Ken Catran has been announced as the winner of the 2007 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, New Zealand’s most prestigious award... Read more |
Novelist and short story writer James George has been announced as the 2007 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow in New Zealand. The fellowship honours New Zealand... Read more |
The change to 13-digit ISBNs on 1 January 2007 was accompanied by rule changes to the use of ISBNs. Among these, it is now forbidden... Read more |
The Cambridge Information Group (CIG), parent company of library resource provider CSA (and of WBN‘s publisher Thorpe-Bowker), has announced the finalisation of its acquisition of... Read more |
Speculation has been mounting in recent weeks over a possible takeover bid for Pearson, parent company of Penguin and Pearson Education. A Reuters report on... Read more |
Among stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Wal-Mart faces lawsuit from two million women Time Warner adds $530 million... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Writers at Como festival, which runs from Friday 16... Read more |
There’s an eclectic mix of new titles in this week’s top 10 bestsellers: some crime fiction, some crime nonfiction and a new diet book (no,... Read more |
Working Title Press writes: ‘Sue Williams, the co-founder of Omnibus Books and Working Title Press, children’s author, publisher, designer and art director extraordinaire, died peacefully... Read more |
Australian historian Noel David McLachlan, author of Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism (Penguin), has died from pneumonia at the age of... Read more |
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