The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has raised concerns over aspects of proposed Government legislation that could mean that all books will have to be classified.... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), a new initiative to build on the success of the 2006 Australian Readers Challenge (ARC), has been launched. ILP is... Read more |
The Classification Review Board (CRB) has banned The Peaceful Pill Handbook–a book on euthanasia co-written by euthanasia advocate Phillip Nitschke. The ban follows complaints from... Read more |
Despite full-year results showing ‘a fairly tough year’ for the company as a whole, culminating in a drop in net profit of 44% on 2005,... Read more |
Pearson Group, parent company of Penguin and Pearson Education in Australia, has reported its 2006 preliminary results, which indicate that while overall profits for the... Read more |
Australia’s second-largest retailer, the Coles Group, is again up for sale. After turning down an $18 billion takeover bid by private equity group KKR last... Read more |
The Japanese edition of Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, by Australian author Ben Hills (Random), has been cancelled by publisher Kodansha after much... Read more |
Campbell Mattinson has been announced as the winner of the The Saltram Wine Communicator 2006 Award, Australia’s top wine-writing award. Mattinson’s Wine Hunter (Hodder), a... Read more |
Westfield, the world’s largest shopping centre operator, has reported a record annual net profit $5.5 billion, an increase of more than 30% on 2005. The... Read more |
The elegant ballroom of Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel was the setting for this year’s Dromkeen Medal presentation and dinner, held on 23 February and hosting some... Read more |
Elliot Perlman’s Three Dollars (Picador) was voted Victoria’s favourite story set in Victoria in the inaugural Reading Victoria program at the State Library of Victoria.... Read more |
Mind-body-spirit (MBS) book distributor Brumby Books has merged with New World Music Australia. The new company is known as Brumby Books & Music. ‘Brumby Books... Read more |
Lonely Planet has been named Top Guidebook Series for the fourth time in UK travel magazine Wanderlust‘s annual awards-voted on by almost 3000 consumers. However,... Read more |
Spanish-language titles and authors will again be a hot topic at the London Book Fair, to be held from 16 to 18 April at Earls... Read more |
HarperCollins (HC) has announced an addition to its ‘Browse Inside’ digitisation program with the release of a free ‘widget’ that can be used to add... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Philip Roth has won the PEN/Falkner award for the third time; Lord George Weidenfeld, co-founder... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont is targeting young girls with big dreams in some of its latest releases. And it seems to be working. Total Girl Star... Read more |
Joseph Low, an American children’s book illustrator best known for his 1981 Caldecott honor book Mice Twice (S&S), has died at the age of 95.... Read more |
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