Australian Book Review just polled its readers’ favourite Australian novels, and we haven’t read many of ‘em. Are we philistines, or is it time to hunt Australia’s literary lions rather than feed them?

It's reassuring that people still want to read. It's less reassuring that they're more than willing to head to the black book market, in digital or physical form, to get their fix.

The Kindle will be available in Australia for the first time this Friday. While you might've hocked all your CDs the moment you put them on your iPod, we'd advise against any book-burning just yet.

New special edition copies of the blockbuster Twilight saga come with blood-red ink along the edge of the pages. We suss out age-old design tricks, in order to judge a book by its page edge.

New HarperCollins imprint Angry Robot ostensibly deals in genre fiction, but it's also exploring new publishing formats and community-building online PR efforts.

Reports emerge that Darren Aronofsky's new film The Black Swan will be based on a philosophical treatise on economics. Not true. Yet not unfeasible on current trends.

E-commerce behemoth Amazon claims it's cleaning its site of adult content… but many are outraged that it's effectively trying to hide books with gay and feminist themes.

Four years after his last lacklustre novel, the 82-year-old Nobel laureate has had enough. And the lit world's horror at this news reveals how authors are expected to be tireless writing machines.

700 members of the Australian Society of Authors have petitioned the Federal Government, shitscared that cheap imported books will cripple the market for local literature.