Bookseller+Publisher magazine and Bookseller+Publisher Online/WBN regularly survey our readers to ensure that your trade publications are relevant and useful. For the first time, we have... Read more |
After again postponing the announcement of its ruling, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) now expects to announce the outcome of its review of the... Read more |
After 35 years with Macmillan Publishers Australia (MPA), Peter Phillips is taking the first steps towards retirement by stepping down from his position as sales and... Read more |
Despite a court injunction preventing the screening in Victoria of the 13-part Channel Nine true-crime TV series Underbelly, on the basis that it could prejudice... Read more |
Continuing efforts by the Australian newspaper to discredit former boy soldier Ishmael Beah appear to have fallen flat, with customers continuing to purchase his memoir, A Long Way... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the shortlist for the 2008 Book Design Awards. Penguin leads the way with 13 finalists across its various... Read more |
Pearson Education has acquired Swinburne University’s publishing arm, Tertiary Press. ‘It is a pretty simple story,’ said Pearson Education’s managing director, David Barnett. ‘Swinburne put... Read more |
Patricia Edgar, who established the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and was the force behind acclaimed television series such as ‘Touch the Sun’ and ‘Round the... Read more |
The Australia Council’s annual accolade for writers over 65, the $50,000 writers’ emeritus award, will be shared by Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane. Koch is a... Read more |
The Literature Board of the Australia Council has announced a new one-off grant for established writers and picture book/graphic novel illustrators. The $40,000 ‘Breaking new... Read more |
Geraldine Brooks and J M Coetzee are among the authors on the list of ‘good reads’ voted on by the members of the US-based National... Read more |
Bolinda’s audiobook of Ogre in a Toga, written and narrated by Geoffrey McSkimming, has made the shortlist for the 2008 Audies awards. Ogre in a... Read more |
Author Nick Earls will spearhead a new push to sell more Queensland-authored books in the growing Asian market. Earls has been named as the face... Read more |
The Running Man (Scholastic) is in the running for another prize. Brisbane author Michael Gerard Bauer’s 2004 YA novel has been nominated for the Katholischer... Read more |
The Australia Council and Copyright Agency Ltd have commissioned book industry consultants Bloom Partners to conduct a new study into the future impact of digital... Read more |
Boomerang Books is promising some ‘major changes’ this year. The Adelaide-based online bookstore will take its website ‘to a new level by adopting some exciting Web 2.0... Read more |
One of the world’s biggest licensing publishers is getting set to enter the Australian market with 30 books based on the children’s TV show, Hi-5.... Read more |
Total international revenue for McGraw-Hill Education rose 7.2% in 2007, and operating income increased 21.5% to US$400 million (A$430 million), according to annual results just released... Read more |
Lowry and Morris share NZ fellowshipThis year’s NZ$40,000 (A$38,890) Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship will be shared by authors Brigid Lowry and Paula Morris. The writers... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Writers at the Convent, Melbourne, 15-17 February SCBWI Conference Perth,... Read more |
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Tolkien estate sues film company Authors protest at UK PLR... Read more |
Crime is prevalent and ever-popular–in the book world at any rate. James Patterson’s 7th Heaven comes in at number one again this week, indicating readers... Read more |
‘Most book consumers are not yet aware that it is possible to download books, let alone interested in the prospect of doing so’–according to a new... Read more |
Kate Jones was a literary agent with ICM in London and was about to sign a deal for a co-venture with Curtis Brown UK when she... Read more |
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