ABC Books and HarperCollins have announced a ?new commercial partnership’ that will see HarperCollins taking on responsibility for the publishing and distribution of ABC Books... Read more |
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Matthew Goldberg as its new CEO. Goldberg, previously senior vice-president, digital strategy and operations at Dow Jones in... Read more |
Caro Llewellyn, former artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival and director of the New York-based PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, has been... Read more |
As the deadline for submissions to the Productivity Commission study into parallel importation legislation draws closer, several authors have made submissions. Kate Grenville, Tony Wilson,... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has informed members that its Schools Committee will be responsible for putting member views to the National Curriculum Board, as... Read more |
The best selling book in Australia in 2008, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan, was 4 Ingredients, selling some 288,000 copies last year (on top... Read more |
The organisers have announced that this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) will be held on the new grounds of Belongil Fields, Byron Bay. Due... Read more |
Next Monday 12 January Lindfield Bookshop and Lindfield Children’s Bookshop will open in a new combined store on the Pacific Highway in Lindfield, NSW. Lindfield... Read more |
Former publisher at Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Jo Scott, has founded a new Victorian-based educational publishing house. Jo Scott Publishing will be a development company, with... Read more |
Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia authors Linda Briskman, Susie Latham and Chris Goddard have been awarded the Literature Nonfiction Award as part of... Read more |
Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia (Paul Memmott, UQP) is the recipient of the 2008 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait... Read more |
Redundancies at New Holland UKNew Holland has announced seven redundancies in its UK office. ‘We were already having a difficult year, due to the absence... Read more |
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog: Arise, Sir Terry Pratchett! McGraw-Hill restructure Bertrams sale expected soon Orbit announces US$1 e-books... Read more |
Rights managers and publishers have been busy over the past couple of months, selling and acquiring titles around the globe. In this, the first of... Read more |
‘Mr Carr’s claims on price are both misleading and spurious. Comparing the GST-inclusive ARP with a freight-free, heavily discounted, GST-free Amazon price is a gross... Read more |
In the retail days around Christmas Stephenie Meyer held her Bestseller lead with New Moon and Eclipse (Hachette), followed by J K Rowling’s slim volume... Read more |
Trade events coming up soon, as shown on our events calendar, include: Applications close for APA Publishing Internship Program – 30 Jan Registration due for... Read more |
Award-winning author Dorothy Porter died on 10 December 2008, aged 54. The Australian Society of Authors writes:‘The Australian Society of Authors expresse[s] its sadness at... Read more |
Amanda Donohoe of the University Co-operative Bookshop writes: ‘It is with great sadness we advise Ann McDougall, branch manager of our University of Sunshine Coast... Read more |
Playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, described by the New York Times as ‘the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation’, died on Christmas... Read more |
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Mystery writer Donald E Westlake, the author of more than 100 novels, died on New Year’s Eve, aged 75.
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Samuel Huntington, author of Clash of Civilisations died on Christmas Eve, aged 81.
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