According to a report in the Age, Nikki Christer, Picador publishing director at Pan Macmillan, has announced her resignation from the company. Christer denied that... Read more |
The online newsletter Crikey yesterday published a copy of a draft version of the government’s proposed legislation aimed at making classification of content ‘technology neutral’.... Read more |
Following the severe storm that lashed Canberra with golf-ball sized hailstones and 50km/h winds last Tuesday evening (27 February), several Canberra bookshops have spent the past... Read more |
Books Alive has announced that Peter FitzSimons will be the ambassador for its fifth national campaign, running from Wednesday 25 July to Friday 31 August.... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the early-bird rates for this year’s ABA Conference to be held in Melbourne, calling them ‘the best conference... Read more |
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), US-based parent company of the Australian distributor Bookwise, has reached an agreement with US wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) on the sale... Read more |
Luck in the Greater West, by 37-year-old Damian McDonald, was announced as the winner of this year’s ABC Fiction Award at an award ceremony in... Read more |
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is facing a defamation suit from Kyle Kutasi, who objects to a number of passages referring to him in John Hyde Page’s... Read more |
The federal opposition has joined the government in pushing for a national curriculum for Australian schools. The Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced the opposition’s plan... Read more |
Random House has struck a deal with Sir Richard Branson to acquire 90% of his publishing imprint Virgin Books. The agreement includes a five-book deal... Read more |
Total international revenue for Simon & Schuster rose six percent in 2006, to US$807 million (A$1 billion), and operating profit increased four percent, to US$68.5... Read more |
Canada-based media group Torstar, owner of romance publisher Harlequin/Mills & Boon, has described 2006 as a ‘challenging’ year in announcing its annual results. Net income for the year... Read more |
The 10 finalists in this year’s Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton); Stick out Your Tongue (Ma Jian,... Read more |
Following last week’s announcement by HarperCollins of a ‘widget’ to enhance its Browse Inside digitisation program, Random House has launched its own ‘widget’, called Insight.... Read more |
The winners of India’s Hutch Crossword Book Awards were announced on 21 February in Mumbai. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, Faber) won the English fiction award,... Read more |
Among the stories recently added to our ‘Around the World’ blog: new CEO for Reader’s Digest B&N forecasts a flat year Sharemarket pundits say ‘sell... Read more |
With summer officially over it’s time for booksellers to start preparing for the next big sales event: Mother’s Day. The bestseller charts are brimming with... Read more |
Professor David Myers, publisher of Central Queensland University Press imprint Outback Books, has died from complications related to his battle with a brain tumour. CQU... Read more |
Pan Macmillan writes: ‘Billy was not just one of the country’s rock ‘n’ roll legends, he was also a very successful author. His two books... Read more |
American historian and author Arthur Schlesinger has died from a heart attack, aged 89. An influential liberal voice in US politics, Schlesinger once served as... Read more |
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