Independent booksellers of Australia have voted Tim Winton’s Breath (Hamish Hamilton) their inaugural ‘Indie’ Award winner for 2008. The author of the ‘Best Australian Book’... Read more |
Book City Glendale and Book City Lake Macquarie have closed. Both were run by franchisee Jean-Marc Biram. Book City Mackay has also closed. Book City... Read more |
Learning Media, the New Zealand company responsible for the publication, production, marking and sale of educational materials ‘particularly to the Ministry of Education’, anticipates some... Read more |
Family, friends and many colleagues from the book trade joined Michael Zifcak (pictured with his wife Ludmila) in Melborune last week to celebrate his 90th... Read more |
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the details of a new prize to commemorate John Button. The most popular article published in ABR in... Read more |
Earth, the new out-sized atlas from Millennium House, has been printed in Hong Kong to avoid a possible embargo by China, Millennium House managing director... Read more |
In its second year the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Introduction to Bookselling course, staged in Melbourne last weekend, attracted 25 participants from Western Australia, Queensland,... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Receiving $60,000 each for their contribution to New Zealand... Read more |
Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The iPhone is beating the Kindle as a popular e-book reader First pictures... Read more |
‘We’re surrounded by savage booksellers hungry and desperate to indent everything in sight. Their whole perverted purpose is quite simple–it’s to eat us until we... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date for the Age short story competition, 10 October... Read more |
Brisingr by the young Christopher Paolini has come up trumps in the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers charts this week. Top spot in the Highest... Read more |
American illustrator Dirk Zimmer has died aged 64. Zimmer illustrated nearly 40 books and was best known for such works as In a Dark, Dark... Read more |
American poet Hayden Carruth has died, he was 87. Carruth, who wrote more than 30 books, won the 1996 National Book Award for Poetry for... Read more |
Adelaide Caroline Marston Trigg, co-founder of the Haunted Book Shop in Alabama, USA has died. She was 89. The store was named after the Christopher... Read more |
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