WBN will be hitting the phones later this week to gauge the trade’s reaction to Christmas–was it a good season for booksellers and publishers? If... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has postponed its decision on the proposed bid for Borders’ Australian stores by Angus & Robertson. The ACCC... Read more |
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program will be held this year in conjunction with Adelaide Writers’ Week. The list of confirmed participants to... Read more |
Broadcaster SBS has announced that it has appointed Hardie Grant as its new books partner, along with a similar arrangement for music with Universal. SBS... Read more |
Catherine O’Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost (Scribe, February) recently won the UK’s Costa First Novel Award, will be among the guests at this year’s... Read more |
The winner of the 2007 Iremonger award for writing on public issues was announced in December. The winning manuscript proposal is Once Were Radicals by... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has accredited the Macquarie University Post-graduate Diploma in Editing & Publishing, making it the second tertiary publishing course in the... Read more |
Rob Kolman has been appointed as the managing director of Elsevier Australia. Kolman comes to Elsevier Australia from Reed Business Information (RBI) in The Netherlands,... Read more |
Alone on the Soaks: The Life and Times of Alec Kruger, co-authored by Alec Kruger and Gerard Waterford, published by Alice Springs-based Indigenous publisher IAD... Read more |
Melbourne’s Reader’s Feast Bookstore has donated a library consisting of 800 new books to The Portsea Camp, a not-for-profit children’s charity that assists disadvantaged and... Read more |
Following last year’s announcement that Hachette’s speculative fiction imprint Orbit was setting up an Australian division, Orbit and the Queensland Writers’ Centre have announced a... Read more |
New Zealand’s Storylines festival has announced that UK author/illustrator Babette Cole and Australian author Carole Wilkinson will head the guest-list for its 2008 event. Storylines... Read more |
Blake Dawson business literature prize shortlistFour book have been shortlisted for the 2007 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. They are National Market, National Interest... Read more |
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog: Seinfelds sued over cookbook plagiarism claims Winning author refuses Nestle Prize cheque Man Booker... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • Closing date for the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and... Read more |
That stalwart, the Guinness Book of Records, has probably broken some records itself as it comes in a healthy second in the bestsellers this week.... Read more |
‘This woman is another kind of nut. You know, she thinks she invented vegetables. And she is accusing my wife of stealing her mashed-up carrots’–comedian... Read more |
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Author and creator of the Flashman series, George MacDonald Fraser, has died aged 82.
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