Several educational publishers and campus booksellers have united in opposition to the Productivity Commission’s recommendations on parallel importation restrictions (PIRs). ‘It is certainly disappointing that... Read more |
Online Australian bookseller Seekbooks has announced it will offer Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol for more than 60% off the $49.95 recommended retail price, at... Read more |
The program for the 2009 Melbourne Writers’ Festival (MWF), which will run from 21 to 30 August, was launched on Thursday 16 July. MWF organisers,... Read more |
The Reader’s Feast Crime & Justice Festival, held last weekend in Melbourne and now in its second year, proved ‘a great success’, Reader’s Feast’s Mary... Read more |
Booksellers can download various web banners promoting the Indigenous Literacy Project ahead of the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 2 September. The Indigenous... Read more |
The travel market is ‘increasingly challenging’, according to Lonely Planet owner BBC Worldwide, which has released its annual results. The results are for the 2008/2009... Read more |
Thomson Reuters has announced that it has acquired the Redfern Legal Centre Publishing imprint and will be publishing the new edition of The Law Handbook... Read more |
The Bookshop in Sydney’s Darlinghurst–a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) specialist bookstore–is celebrating 25 years in business. SX News asked The Bookshop’s manager of... Read more |
Rawnsley AWRF 2010 artistic director; Rodda acting general managerJill Rawnsley, previously the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival director, will continue at the festival as artistic... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: management buyout for Borders UK CUP creates global PoD list writer... Read more |
FictionRights to The Dead Path by Stephen M Irwin (Hachette) have sold to Germany and the UK. Children’sScholastic has sold the Taiwanese rights to Leaf... Read more |
Authors on tour in July, August and September: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy)Scott Frost, Hachette (Don’t Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Emma Tom,... Read more |
‘Further, the expansion of the books production industries over recent decades has attracted and held productive resources, notably skilled labour and capital, that have thereby... Read more |
The ‘bit lit’ phenomenon continues with Stephenie Meyer devouring the top four places on this week’s Bestseller chart. Lookout for handouts with this week’s highest... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Hong Kong Book Fair, 22-28 July Poetry for the Poeple–Montana... Read more |
Frank McCourt, who turned his difficult Irish childhood and 30 years teaching in New York into the memoirs Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis and Teacher Man, died... Read more |
UK children’s writer, critic and teacher Naomi Lewis has died, aged 97. Her publications include A Visit to Mrs Wilcox and countless reviews in the... Read more |
Author Gordon Burn, whose work explored boundaries between fact and fiction, and the dark side of celebrity, has died, aged 61. His books included Somebody’s... Read more |
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