Brumby Books and Music has signed a ‘conditional contract’ to purchase fellow distributor Bookwise International. Under the deal–reportedly worth over $450,000–Bookwise will remain in Adelaide with... Read more |
Austrade has announced the cancellation of the funding it provides for the book display section of the Australia stand at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book... Read more |
The Australia Council is now calling for appointments with the 12 guests of this year’s Visiting International Publisher (VIP) Program. Meetings will take place at... Read more |
Books Alive has issued a reminder to booksellers and libraries that orders and marketing initiative submissions close soon. All book orders and marketing initiative submissions must... Read more |
A reminder that 2007 ABA conference registrations close at 5pm this Friday, 13 April. The ABA is urging all in the trade to register now... Read more |
Marcus Zusak has picked up another award in the US: the membership of the American Booksellers Association has voted The Book Thief (Picador) its favourite... Read more |
Australian resident J M Coetzee is one of eight authors in the running for this year’s Dublin IMPAC Award, one of the world’s most valuable... Read more |
The Ovation channel, a subscription arts and entertainment channel that is carried on Foxtel, Austar, OptusTV and SelecTV, is planning to develop a monthly half-hour... Read more |
The ongoing saga of who will own the Coles Group has taken another two turns in recent days. First, the board of Coles rejected the... Read more |
New Holland publishers and the NSW Writers Centre have announced the creation of a new ‘genre fiction award’ open to all published and unpublished writers... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK figures show chains suffering Bloomsbury posts a small loss Record... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the announcement of this year’s Man Booker International Prize contenders... Read more |
The top 10 gets a big dose of popular fiction this week from some of the genre’s biggest names. Wilbur Smith revisits the action of... Read more |
Allen & Unwin writes: we recently received the sad news that Faber author Michael Dibdin died in Seattle on Friday 30 March after a short... Read more |
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