Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, a book about political developments in 1850s NSW by Peter Cochrane (MUP), has won the $20,000 Age Book of... Read more |
Kurt Beidler, the senior manager of business development for Amazon.com, is in Australia this week for meetings with publishers in Sydney and Melbourne, hosted by... Read more |
The inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day will be celebrated with events around Australia next Wednesday 5 September. On the day, booksellers and publishers who have pledged... Read more |
The 2007 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children’s Book Week, which this year ran under the theme ‘READiscover’, wrapped up last Friday, having run... Read more |
In response to recent changes to the Copyright Act, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has introduced a new license to ‘support legal copying by businesses.’ An... Read more |
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Pan Macmillan) has been announced as the winner of this year’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, Britain’s oldest literary... Read more |
Author threatenedBen Hills, the Australian author of the controversial book Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, has received threatening emails just before the Japanese... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Pearson’s Harcourt acquisition cleared in UK UK competition watchdog probes supermarkets... Read more |
‘For most Amazon customers, a special order is a terrible customer experience’–Amazon exec Kurt Beidler on the ‘need it now’ attitude of his 66 million... Read more |
No real surprises this week, with some familiar books continuing to make their presence known. Harry Potter garners top spot again and creeping up at... Read more |
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Booksellers New Zealand notes the passing of long-time Penguin NZ senior editor Philippa Gerrard, who died in Auckland last week.
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The Washington Post reports American poet and short story writer Grace Paley died on 23 August. Paley began writing prose in the 1950s and in... Read more |
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