The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has commissioned a ‘green paper’ to study the impact on its membership of the parallel importation of books. The report,... Read more |
The 2007 Books Alive campaign, which ran nationally through the month of August, was a ‘strong’ one, according to Books Alive project director Brett Osmond.... Read more |
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on Monday night. With a total prize pool of $195,000 awarded in 11 categories, Victorian Premier... Read more |
After 10 days of panels, workshops, conversations and book launches, the 2007 Melbourne Writers’ Festival wrapped up on Sunday 2 September. According to organisers, the... Read more |
The winners of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards–Australia’s premier prizes for crime writing–were announced on 29 August by the Crime Writers’ Association of Australia, in... Read more |
Following hot on the heels of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Brisbane will next week play host to an impressive line-up of international and local authors... Read more |
The Berkelouw Books chain has ‘emerged as a strong contender’ to buy the Australasian operations of the Borders bookselling chain, according to a report in... Read more |
Lonely planet has launched a trial of ‘Pick and Mix’, a new product that enables travellers to purchase individual chapters from Lonely Planet guidebooks. More... Read more |
Faith & Duty: The John Anderson Story, Paul Gallagher’s biography of the former Deputy Prime Minister (Random), has been announced as Christian Book of the Year for... Read more |
The University of Melbourne has announced it will commission a short external review to ‘provide advice to the Meanjin board on the literary magazine’s intellectual... Read more |
OUP acquires Beazer PublishingOxford University Press (OUP) has acquired Beazer Publishing. Beazer, founded in 1994 by Margaret Beazer, specialises in texts for Legal Studies and... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Borders’ 2nd quarter: sales up, but still making a loss Family settles... Read more |
‘$195,000: that’s almost a living wage for someone at Macquarie Bank … almost’–MC John Doyle (aka ‘Rampaging Roy Slaven’) commenting on the total prize pool... Read more |
Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden’s Dangerous Book for Boys: Australian Edition proved to be a hit for Father’s Day, coming in at number two this... Read more |
Lesley Beaumont of John Wiley & Sons Australia writes: ‘It is with regret that we heard late last week of the passing of one of... Read more |
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The Guardian reports that Julia Briggs, literary scholar and ‘champion of women’s writing and children’s literature’, died on 16 August 2007.
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