The Printing Industries Association of Australia has joined the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) in opposing the removal of... Read more |
The 87th annual Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Wellington on Sunday and Monday. While the general feeling in the NZ trade is that... Read more |
The 2008 Books Alive ‘50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ List will be released to the public in News Limited newspapers around the country this... Read more |
Anna McFarlane, children’s publisher at Pan Macmillan, has resigned ‘to pursue other interests, including children’s book-related film and television projects’. McFarlane’s new company, which she... Read more |
The inaugural Crime & Justice festival, presented by Reader’s Feast Bookshop, was held at Melbourne’s Abbotsford Convent over the weekend. The festival, which combines the... Read more |
The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader’s Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night. The winner... Read more |
Having only started operations in New Zealand last year, at the invitation of Booksellers NZ and the Book Publishers Association of NZ (BPANZ), Nielsen BookScan... Read more |
The Sunday night of the recent Booksellers New Zealand conference saw the Penguin NZ-sponsored conference dinner and industry awards, held in Wellington’s impressively restored Town... Read more |
The Booksellers NZ annual conference concluded on Monday night with the presentation of New Zealand’s premier book prizes, the Montana Awards. Charlotte Grimshaw (pictured, photo... Read more |
The longlist for the 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize was announced on Tuesday. Among the longlisted titles is Leave Me Alone, Chengdu by Chinese author... Read more |
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) has won the 10th Anniversary BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson... Read more |
Churchill fellowship to State Library of South Australia directorThe director of the State Library of South Australia Alan Smith has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship... Read more |
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Harry Potter on the top of the charts again?! Hold onto your hats, it’s not a new one from J K Rowling but her most... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ‘A Night of Wine and Crime’, Mornington, VIC, 24 July... Read more |
‘Over the course of four years I made time to read all of the Harry Potter books out loud to my daughters. If I can... Read more |
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