The ABC has flatly denied a report in the Sydney Morning Herald that it would be closing its 43 stores around Australia. The report in... Read more |
The 2008 federal budget contained no ‘significant new measures’ that would affect booksellers, according to the new CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Malcolm... Read more |
The Five Mile Press has issued an urgent recall of the title Killer in the Family by true crime author Lindy Cameron. The book explores... Read more |
The public now has a chance to vote for ‘The Best of the Booker’ after the shortlist for the one-off celebratory award was released on... Read more |
Several big names are in the running for the Australian Literary Society’s 2008 Gold Medal. The award for an ‘outstanding Australian literary work’, which celebrates... Read more |
Only six books were entered in this year’s $7500 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, which was won by Randa Abdel-Fattah for Ten Things I... Read more |
The author of The Honey Spinner (Murdoch Books), a nonfiction look at honey production around the world, has won the Watermark Fellowship. Grace Pundyk will... Read more |
Victoria may not be too far away from its own Hay on Wye. Currently boasting five bookshops for its 1000 residents, the picturesque Gold Rush... Read more |
New literary agency opens in SydneyA new literacy agency was launched in Sydney this week by the novelist and former Hickson Associates literary agent, Gaby... Read more |
Among the items added to our Around the World blog this week: Borders UK chief upbeat about the future of print UK booksellers attack ‘green... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Last day of the International Publishers Association’s 28th Congress, Seoul,... Read more |
Tim Winton’s lauded Breath gets pipped at the post by the relentless 4 Ingredients in the Bestseller charts this week, though it does come first... Read more |
‘Large publishers are in a position to become better booksellers than some retailers, and this will be increasingly apparent with the take-up of electronic content.’–Andrew... Read more |
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Charles Ellis, who served as president and CEO of John Wiley & Sons from 1990 to 1998, has died aged 72.
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Irish journalist and memoirist Nuala O’Faolain has died in Dublin aged 68. Her novels included My Dream of You and The Story of Chicago May.
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