HarperCollins has announced that Fiona Henderson, currently publisher at Hachette Livre Australia and formerly publishing director at Random House, will take up the newly created... Read more |
The Angus & Robertson (A&R) bookselling chain is encouraging Harry Potter fans to place pre-orders for the seventh Harry Potter title with A&R stores or... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has wrapped up for another year, with new festival director Wendy Were concluding that her first program had ‘been successful... Read more |
Brendan Gullifer reports:Organisers of Book Expo America (BEA) 2007 are hailing it as one of their best events ever. Despite New York sweltering in 30-plus... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced authors Clive James and Dave Eggers will launch this year’s festival on Friday 24 August. James will discuss his... Read more |
The International ISBN Agency has announced that it expects that ISBNs with a 979 prefix will begin to be issued in the second quarter of... Read more |
Ron Serdiuk, owner and manager of Brisbane’s Pulp Fiction bookshop, has been appointed awards director for the Aurealis Awards–Australia’s leading speculative fiction awards. Serduik, who... Read more |
The shortlist of finalist titles in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: FictionThe Cowboy Dog (Nigel Cox, Victoria... Read more |
Microsoft has announced that it has added copyrighted material to its Live Search Books function, which had previously included only public domain and out-of-copyright material.... Read more |
The Australian Copyright Council has released a new book Technology, Contracts and Paracopyright, in response to the concerns of those using copyright material that usage... Read more |
DA Information Services has announced that its trade distribution arm will be renamed Central Book Services. Central Book Services will ‘focus on effective trade marketing... Read more |
LP author missingAustralian travel writer Clem Lindenmeyer, who has written a number of books for Lonely Planet, has gone missing in Tibet. He is now... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: US book sales ‘struggling’, says ‘NY Times’ BookSurge steps up PoD efforts IPA... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: State Library of Victoria’s ‘All about Books’ Week, which runs... Read more |
The battle of the non-believers heats up this week with chart newcomer Christopher Hitchens muscling in on Richard Dawkins’ territory. Hitchens’ case against organised religion God Is Not Great is one of... Read more |
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‘There’s always certain politics among writers.’ Wendy Were, SWF artistic director, on the reported tension between some of this year’s Festival guests.
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Ernie Mason, former managing director of Random House, writes: ‘Max Ell passed away on Thursday 24 May after a short battle with cancer. Max was... Read more |
Linda Funnell writes: ‘Much-loved author Lynne Wilding passed away on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. In characteristic style she dealt with her illness... Read more |
Former Thames & Hudson sales manager Trevor Craker, an ‘Australophile’ who was instrumental in establishing the Australian branch of the business, has died at the... Read more |
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