The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has changed its position on the question of an open market, recommending Australia retain its territorial copyright. ‘The management committee... Read more |
The Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller (A&U) has been awarded the Annual Best Foreign Novels, 21st Century Award in Beijing. Miller is the first... Read more |
Following his arrest for lese-majeste (offences against the crown) in Thailand, Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been given the minimum sentence of three years jail... Read more |
The program for the second annual Writers at the Convent festival, organised by Reader’s Feast bookstore, has been announced. On February 13, 14 and 15,... Read more |
Finch Publishing has announced that from 1 April this year it will be represented by HarperCollins Publishers Australia. HEDS currently warehouses and fulfils all Finch... Read more |
Telecom New Zealand has announced it is closing its online shopping venture Ferrit. Ferrit, an online retail aggregator, included books from stores such as Whitcoulls... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Espresso Book Machine debuts in UK American Booksellers Association CEO to step down Barnes &... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionHachette Australia has sold Sasha by Joel Shepherd to Italy. Margaret Gee reports: ‘my German sub-agent Bastian Schluck sold... Read more |
‘Going through all this again is torture for the trade. Old warriors are hiding behind remainder bins. Industry heads are speechless with disbelief and boredom.... Read more |
In what could be a welcome break from the Stephenie Meyer-induced frenzy currently in the charts, word-nerds can note that the Australian Oxford Mini Dictionary... Read more |
Robert Fisher writes: ‘Alan Leutenegger, who died last month after a short illness, came to the book industry in 1974 when the paperback distribution side... Read more |
Michelle Brasington of Thames & Hudson writes: ‘Thames & Hudson is sad to announce the death of our former long-time South Australian agent, Earl Gleaves.... Read more |
Kevin Meade, a journalist in the Queensland bureau of the Australian, has died, aged 57. His book, Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One... Read more |
Author John Mortimer has died, aged 85. Mortimer was best known as the author of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also wrote Paradise Postponed and... Read more |
Peter Bowron, group managing director of the Random House Group in the UK has died. Bowron worked for Hodder & Stoughton as a graduate trainee... Read more |
British poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell has died, aged 76. At his death Mitchell had just completed three works to be published next year: Tell... Read more |
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American author Hortense Calisher has died aged 97; she wrote the novel Mysteries of Motion.
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