The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will work with the Victorian government to assist communities affected by the bushfires that... Read more |
Caro Llewellyn, the former director of PEN World Voices Festival who was appointed director of the Melbourne’s new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has said it will closely study the proposals put by the Australian Bookseller’s Association’s (ABA) in its submission to the Productivity... Read more |
Printer PMP Limited, parent company of Griffin Press, will shut down a press in Adelaide and a second printing plant in Brisbane. PMP said the... Read more |
ReadHowYouWant (RHYW), a special format publisher, has launched an online Braille bookshop ‘in celebration of Louis Braille’s 200th birthday’. The Sydney-based company offers public domain... Read more |
The online bookshop Booktopia celebrated its fifth birthday on Wednesday 4 February. ‘Booktopia started in 2004 on a $10-per-day budget using the Seekbooks system to... Read more |
The OPUS Print Group, formerly Knox Print Media Group, parent company of Ligare book printers, has announced it has ‘joined forces’ with Canberra-based print companies... Read more |
Pat Woolley, director of Wild & Woolley/Fast Books, writes: ‘I am astounded at the great submissions to the productivity commission that have been written by... Read more |
Booksellers NZ Conference 2009 dates and theme announcedThe 2009 Booksellers Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland, 26 to 27 July,... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog: Kolkata Book Fair expects two million visitors India to take 73 stands at LBF Google... Read more |
In rights news this week: NonfictionHarperCollins has acquired the rights to the political autobiography of former Prime Minister John Howard. The New Glucose Revolution by Professor Jennie... Read more |
‘In the longer term there will be a rebuilding phase for those communities. It is then that the book industry will be needed to co-ordinate... Read more |
The Highest New Entries chart holds the most interest this week, as it is the only chart that doesn’t feature Stephenie Meyer in abundance, or... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Jerusalem International Book Fair, 15-20 February Writers at the Convent,... Read more |
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Puerto Rican writer and boxer Jose Torres has died, aged 72. Torres wrote Fire and Fear (released in 1989) a book about Mike Tyson.
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