You will soon be able to subscribe to Thorpe-Bowker’s Weekly Book Newletter and Media Extra services–or renew your subscription–online, following the launch of a new subscription management... Read more
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International publisher Parragon has acquired the publishing division of Funtastic. Fourteen Funtastic publishing staffers have been made redundant, with the remaining 12 due to move to... Read more
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Hachette Livre Australia has announced an urgent recall of actress Kathleen Turner’s biography Send Yourself Roses, as a ‘precautionary measure’, following legal action taken by... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council have announced the 12 editors who have been selected to attend the fifth biennial... Read more
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Max Barry’s novel Company and Barry Heard’s Vietnam memoir Well Done, Those Men, both published by Scribe, are Victoria’s favourite summer reads, according to the State... Read more
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The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced that it will be removing the publishers and booksellers list from the Australian Libraries Gateway website. The... Read more
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Teachers, librarians, publishers and policy-makers gathered at Melbourne’s Foreign Language Bookshop last Friday to celebrate the International Year of Languages. The event also marked the... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2008 Australian Science Fiction Awards (also known as the Ditmars) has been announced. In the running for best novel are: The... Read more
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Borders will open a new outlet in outer-suburban Sydney on 6 March. The two-level Rouse Hill store will employ 28 staff across its 1868 square metres,... Read more
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Australian cocktail guru Hayden Wood will join Kiwi food writers Julie Biuso and Annabel Langbein and 13 other guests from around the world in a... Read more
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The Anglo-Dutch media group Reed Elsevier has announced plans to sell its £1b (A$2.04 billion) business magazine division, Reed Business Information (RBI). Details of the... Read more
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Quarto, the London-based parent company of Australian book packager Global Book Publishing, has announced its earnings for 2007, reporting a growth in total revenue of... Read more
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The organisers of the Man Booker Prize have announced that a one-off Best of the Booker award will be presented this year to ‘the best... Read more
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It was a bookish Oscars ceremony this year, with three of the five films nominated for best picture at this year’s Academy Awards being based... Read more
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NZ Post Book Awards shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards For Children and Young Adults has been announced. Three of... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Random drops DRM on audiobooks UK indie publishers flourish Has Reed... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Last day of the Reed Gift Fairs, Sydney, 27 February... Read more
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The TV series may have been banned in Victoria, but Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester and Andrew Rule has hit number one in... Read more
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French writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet has died aged 85. He helped found the ‘New Novel’ school in the 1950s and wrote more than a... Read more
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