Registrations for the 2008 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference are still open–delegates who register now will avoid the late fee. This year’s conference will be... Read more
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The Little Bookroom in Melbourne, Australia’s oldest specialist children’s bookshop, has a brand new pair of owners. Former employees Leesa and Lesley Lambert are now running the... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) held a function in Melbourne on Monday night to welcome its new CEO, Malcolm Neil. Neil spoke of his enthusiasm... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association has announced the shortlisted titles for the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award. Shortlisted for the award, which recognises the book... Read more
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HarperCollins UK will embrace e-publishing in earnest this September, CEO Victoria Barnsley has announced. Come September, the company plans to begin publishing in print and... Read more
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The shortlists for this year’s Carnegie Medal for children’s writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children’s books have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Carnegie... Read more
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The chairman of Reed Elsevier Jan Hommen has hailed a ‘year of significant achievement and strategic development’ for the multinational, despite revenue from Elsevier textbooks... Read more
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‘Five Bells’ up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia’s best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor’s son, Paul, plans to... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Publishers Association Annual General Meeting, 30 April CBCA 9th... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Nabakov’s last work to be published HarperCollins UK announces e-book launch ... Read more
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4 Ingredients by Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham has crept back to the top of the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers chart, thus knocking Marian... Read more
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Journalist, human rights advocate and author Pamela Bone has died aged 68. She was an Age columnist for 20 years.
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