The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has again postponed its decision on A&R’s proposed takeover of Borders’ stores in Australia. The commission was due... Read more |
Publishers Patrick Gallagher (chairman of Allen & Unwin) and Louise Adler (CEO of Melbourne University Publishing), and literary agent Rosemary Creswell were among the Australians honoured... Read more |
A move by Cricket Australia (CA) to ban editorial material created at its events from being used in books, unless approved by CA, has drawn... Read more |
The 2006-07 annual report of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme has been released, showing detailed figures on the recipients of over $7 million in... Read more |
The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced. ‘The field was of a particularly high standard this year, indicative of... Read more |
Melbourne-based Central Book Services has launched what it describes as ‘Australia’s first booktrade consolidation service.’ Central Book Services ‘promises a solution to the many-warehouses-to-many-bookstores supply... Read more |
Illustrator Shaun Tan can add yet another award to his bulging CV, after taking out the Album of the Year prize at Angouleme, France’s prestigious... Read more |
Jillian Durance has won the main prize at the 2007 Victorian Community History Awards for Still Going Strong: The Story of the Moyarra Honor Roll (Moyarra... Read more |
Gillard flags national IR planThe federal government is acting on a pre-election pledge to implement a national industrial relations platform for employees of private companies.... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Costa award to Kennedy US textbook prices ‘rise 186% in 20... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Professional Publishing in Asia 2008 Conference, New Delhi, 31 Jan–1... Read more |
James Patterson knocks Ian McEwan’s Atonement off top spot this week, with his new crime novel, 7th Heaven, set in San Francisco. It also claims... Read more |
Controversial columnist and former Quadrant editor Padraic ‘Paddy’ McGuinness has died in his Sydney home after a battle with cancer. He was 69. First coming... Read more |
Maori poet Hone Tuwhere has died in Dublin, aged 86. The former Te Mata Poet Laureate, who won Montana NZ Book Awards in 1998 and... Read more |
Crime writer Edward D Hoch has died of a heart attack in his New York home. He was 77. The famously prolific author published more... Read more |
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