Reporting its full-year results, Hachette Livre’s parent company Lagardere said its ‘books segment enjoyed a year of solid growth,’ raising sales by 20% overall in... Read more
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Jane Palfreyman, former executive publisher at Random House, has signed four titles since beginning in her new position of publisher at Allen & Unwin on... Read more
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Following the proposal by Minister for the Arts Senator Coonan to introduce legislation to apply classifications to all electronically published material, peak publishing industry bodies... Read more
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Faye Sutherland, manager of the Co-op Bookshop at Macquarie University, has been awarded this year’s Unwin Trust Fellowship. Sutherland, who is the first academic bookseller to... Read more
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Registrations for this year’s ABA conference open on Thursday 15 March. ABA and APA members will receive registration forms this week. On-line registration and downloadable... Read more
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Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), has announced a number of the authors who will be attending this year’s festival. German novelist... Read more
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The Miles Franklin Award has announced an expanded regional author tour program, thanks to sponsorship from CAL. Building on a successful tour of regional NSW... Read more
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The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its fourth year, has announced some of the guests who will be attending the 2007 festival, to... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s National Biography Award has been announced. The six titles are: Arthur Tange (Peter Edwards, A&U) Mr Stuart’s Track (John Bailey,... Read more
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Author Lloyd Jones has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency for 2007. Jones will spend a year in Berlin from August, where... Read more
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February retail sales figures, as measured by the Cashcard Retail Activity Index, have dropped by 0.6% to $18.6 billion, leading the National Retail Association (NRA)... Read more
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The Federal Government has issued a reminder to all employers that new record-keeping obligations required under the Work Choices legislation will be enforced after 27... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US bookstore sales drop again Waterstone’s to close up to 30... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: two awards announcements–the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional winners and the... Read more
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For scandals, both fictional and otherwise, look no further than this week’s top 10. Topping the charts is An Absolute Scandal, the latest page-turner from... Read more
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French philosopher and postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard has died at the age of 77. A fierce critic of modern consumer culture, Baudrillard published more than... Read more
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