Ian Draper has decided to step down from the position of ARW (Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls) group managing director, following the recent purchase by ARW... Read more
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The shortlisted titles for the inaugural Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The Australian Government has introduced the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards ‘to recognise... Read more
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Books by Australian authors have taken five of the top 10 spots in the financial year’s bestsellers, according to Nielsen BookScan. Nielsen BookScan has provided... Read more
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The shortlist for this year’s Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The awards, now in their 35th year, offer three $10,000 prizes,... Read more
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The longlist for second annual Inkys–Teen Choice Book Awards, was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria. Created by the State Library... Read more
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Fifteen independent Canberra bookshops have banded together to produce a brochure intended to lure residents and tourists to visit the city’s non-chain booksellers. Distributed at... Read more
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Two book-related businesses are among the finalists for the 2008 Telstra Victorian Business Awards. Melbourne-based design and book publishing company Ripe Off The Press is... Read more
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Amazon.com has announced that it has acquired AbeBooks. AbeBooks is an ‘online marketplace’ that offers ‘over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the world blog in the past week: Rushdie to sue former bodyguard over book Book trailer tops YouTube... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2008 National Retail Forum and 2008 Retail Expo Australasia, 12-14... Read more
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Penguin’s Little Library (board books for children) is top of the Bestsellers chart this week, and Odd Hours by Dean Koontz reigns supreme in the... Read more
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‘To be able to be relieved of the tyranny of feeding the machine at the bank or feeding the mortgage … just to be able... Read more
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Nobel Prizewinning author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Sozenitsyn has died aged 89. His best-known book One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch, based on... Read more
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