Simon & Schuster Australia MD Jon Attenborough has announced his resignation. Attenborough has headed S&S in Australia since 1987. ‘I have decided that it is... Read more |
The New Zealand Commerce Commission has cleared Angus & Robertson/Whitcoull’s Group Holdings (ARW) to acquire 100% of the shares in Borders NZ. Commission chair Paula... Read more |
Hardie Grant Publishing celebrated 10 years in business with a cocktail party held in Melbourne last Friday night. Guests, including Hardie Grant staff from both... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed ‘serious concerns’ over rights and contractual issues caused by the increasing delivery of digitised content. The ASA’s... Read more |
Online retailer Amazon.com has released its long-awaited Kindle e-book reader in the US. The lightweight, slim, hand-held device uses an updated version of the ‘electronic... Read more |
Murdoch Books has enjoyed ‘strong growth’ over the financial year to June, according to CEO Juliet Rogers. Rogers said this was ‘despite challenges in [the... Read more |
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) held its annual conference in Sydney last week. With over 60 delegates and ‘some great speakers’, outgoing ACBA president... Read more |
As the nation prepares to vote, even the annual New South Wales Writers’ Centre Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow, held in Leichhardt from 16 to... Read more |
Mr Stuart’s Track by Melbourne author John Bailey (Macmillan) has been named the winner of the 2007 Westfield/Waverly Library Award for Literature at an award... Read more |
A national Australian curriculum appears guaranteed, regardless of which political party is voted to power this weekend, with both the Coalition and opposition declaring their... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced it will launch a new large print imprint in January next year. The imprint, HarperLuxe, is intended to ‘provide a more comfortable... Read more |
Stephanie Johnston of Wakefield Press, founding chair of the South Australian Big Book Club, announced her resignation from the position at the Club’s AGM last... Read more |
The shortlisted titles for this year’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commision’s Human Rights Awards arts nonfiction category have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:... Read more |
Rivers and Siems leave Phoenix to found Teaching SolutionsHaving sold their shares in Phoenix Education to their partner David Stewart, Barney Rivers and Ruth Siems... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Copyright Council – Law and Practice Symposium, Sydney 22... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: LP warns about Chinese guidebook confiscations Indian company was bidder for Borders Chinese... Read more |
‘You can’t outbook the traditional book. You have to have a device that can do things that the print book can’t do’–Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos... Read more |
Former rugby league player Andrew Johns’ autobiography The Two of Me has hit the charts this week with a bang. It comes second after Matthew Reilly’s... Read more |
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Ira Levin, the author of many successful novels including Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, has died in Manhattan aged 78.
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