Following its acquisition of Harcourt Education in May, Pearson Australia has announced a number of redundancies in the senior management group at Harcourt. ‘As previously... Read more |
Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore (Text) has been named the winner of this year’s Duncan Lawrie Dagger–previously known as the ‘Gold Dagger’–by the British Crime... Read more |
Jasmin Chua, a senior editor at Hardie Grant Books, is one of 18 recipients of this year’s Frankfurt Fellowships. The Fellowships allow a young publisher... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that it is about to commence a national campaign aimed at encouraging book buyers to choose their local... Read more |
Twenty authors will participate in nearly 100 public events during this year’s Books Alive campaign, starting on 25 July. ‘It is particularly exciting to have such... Read more |
Publishing consultancy Bloom Partners has announced that it has been commissioned to undertake a major new research study to examine the future of the campus... Read more |
Speaking during an Australian Publishers Association (APA) seminar in Melbourne on 27 June, APA CEO Maree McCaskill urged publishers to find their common interests in... Read more |
The organisers of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival have announced an impressive line-up of crime authors for this year’s festival. Dorothy Porter, Shane Maloney, Gabrielle Lord... Read more |
The launch of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)’s Publishers, Printers and Paper (PPP) Network in Melbourne in 5 July was a sell-out, attracting 130 attendees,... Read more |
The Westfield Group has lodged its Stage 2 Development Application with the City of Sydney, for the redevelopment of its Centrepoint, Imperial Arcade and Skygarden... Read more |
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has announced it will provide a Melbourne studio apartment to support the work of the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust.... Read more |
HarperCollins to be ‘carbon neutral’ by 2010News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins owned by Rupert Murdoch, will be ‘carbon neutral’ by 2010, according to... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Reed Gift Fairs in Brisbane, which runs from 14 to... Read more |
Among the new items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Meagre marketing returns from ‘social web’ BEA to Las Vegas... Read more |
Well, Channel 9 may not be winning the television ratings war in the manner to which it was once accustomed but it seems readers are... Read more |
‘Muggles, do you know what this chamber of secrets is?’–in the lead-up to HP7, the Sunday Age tries its best to make the relatively un-magical... Read more |
Romance author Kathleen E Woodiwiss, who was credited with inventing the modern historical romance novel, died last week at the age of 68. ‘We all... Read more |
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