Registrations are now open for the 2008 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, to be held in Melbourne from 15–17 June. ‘Early-bird’ discounts have been extended... Read more |
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones (Vintage) is one of eight titles on the shortlist for the €100,000 (A$160,000) IMPAC award, the world’s richest single... Read more |
‘The broad idea of vision’ will underpin this year’s Sydney Writers Festival program, says artistic director Wendy Were. ‘More than ever, it feels as though... Read more |
Susannah McFarlane is stepping down as managing director of Hardie Grant Egmont, the business she helped found and develop in 2002. ‘The rapid growth of the... Read more |
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Lesley Beaumont to the position of CEO. David Horgan, the previous CEO and founder of The Five... Read more |
Dymocks has announced the resignation of buying manager Meredith Drake. ‘Meredith has been with us for over seven years and during this time has contributed... Read more |
Bernard Beckett’s YA sci-fi epic Genesis is one of the big hits of this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, selling to Quercus for £100,000 (A$202,500), the... Read more |
Leading Edge Books has finalised the plans for its new book prize, to be called the Indie Award. The award, for ‘the best Australian book... Read more |
The first joint annual conference for Collins Booksellers and Book City franchisees was held at Palm Cove in Queensland late last month. ‘A full business-oriented... Read more |
Early bird three-day passes are now available for the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival and are selling in ‘record’ numbers. To be held on 25-27 July,... Read more |
Terry Dowling’s short story ‘Toother’ has won the Australian Shadows Award for best horror story of 2007. Published in Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books), Dowling’s tale... Read more |
Half of 50 Australian shoppers research products online before purchasing in-store, a study from Google and Monash University has revealed. The study also found that... Read more |
Junot Díaz has been announced as the winner of this year’s Pulitzer prize for fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao... Read more |
Borders Group has announced that it has finalised its new financing agreement with Pershing Square Capital Management, its largest shareholder, under ‘terms more favorable than... Read more |
Novelist Nicholas Jose will share Harvard University’s Chair of Australian Studies from 2009, along with scientist Alison Bashford. The post at one of the US’... Read more |
HDS Retail Asia Pacific, which operates airport retail outlets including NewsLink, Relay and Watermark Books, has changed its name to Lagardère Services Asia Pacific. Lagardère... Read more |
Waiting for Mummy by Korean author Lee Tae-Jun and illustrator Kim Dong-Seong, published in Australia by Melbourne-based independent publisher Wilkins Farago, is on the shortlist for the picture-book... Read more |
Miles Franklin and NSW Prem’s shortlists next weekThe shortlists for both the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards will be announced next... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: London Book Fair, London, 14-16 April Galley Club of Sydney... Read more |
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Anger growing at Amazon PoD moves New global list for HarperCollins... Read more |
Underbelly: The Gangland War has finally been knocked off its bestseller perch and is superseded by Jodi Picoult’s new release–A Change of Heart. Picoult is... Read more |
Former ALP Senator John Button has died. He served as the Minister for Industry and Commerce under Labor prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.... Read more |
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