Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Thomson Corporation, the US-based parent company of Thomson Learning, which has operations in 39 countries, including Australia, has announced it will sell the Thomson Learning group in ‘three independent...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week, Adobe unveils a new ebook Internet application; Penguin enters the virtual reality world market; Amazon and AAP object to Google...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Springcleaning is in the air ... and it seems the nation's readers are inspired to pull out the dusters and the squeegee mops with Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming. Their cleaning bible Spotless,...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the APA Basic Editing and Proofreading Workshop in Sydney on 2 November, and the Copyright...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Wendy Lowenstein, oral historian, author and passionate defender of workers' rights, has died in Melbourne from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 79. Lowenstein's books include Weevils in the Flour (Scribe),...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Another successful Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge has come to an end. The 2006 challenge, which ran from February until the end of August, recorded almost twice as many successful participators...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) national executive, which is currently based in New South Wales, is coming to the end of its two-year term and will hand over...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Australian author Nicholas Jose has been chosen as a judge of the new Man Asian Literary Prize, along with US-based writer Andre Aciman and former Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson. The...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Following the departure of Ian Ashmore from his position as general manager of the publishing and entertainment arm of Funtastic, the company has announced that Mark Scott, currently general manager,...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Readings book chain has won this year's Age/D&B Victorian Business Award in the retail category, and is eligible for the overall award to be announced later this month. Owner...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Applications are now open for the 2007 Unwin Trust Fellowship, the program that allows a member of the Australian book trade to visit the UK for three months to enhance...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
RMIT Publishing's Informit E-library has annouced that it has added its 100th journal.Eureka Street joins 99 other Australian journals on the online service, including BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER.'The 100th journal online in Informit e-Library heralds...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has made a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, which is currently reviewing the Government's proposed changes to the Copyright Act.In its submission,...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The board of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has given the go-ahead for the development of a price and availability service for New Zealand booksellers.The service, which will be built on...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week, Thomas Nelson announces it will be dropping all its imprints; Bertelsmann launches a new digital investment fund; Lonely Planet appoints...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
The Australian Readers' Challenge (ARC) Certificate Day ceremony was held at Customs House in Sydney on Monday, with NSW governor Marie Bahsir presiding and representatives from many publishing houses in...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
WBN is saddened to report that John Nieuwenhuizen, a former editor of WBN and Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, died suddenly last Friday.After working for the ABA, John came to...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
As expected, Jonestown (A&U), Chris Masters' unauthorised biography of Sydney radio personality Alan Jones, received much media in the lead-up to its release on Monday, with extracts in newspapers over...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Educational publisher Eleanor Curtain Publishing received a commendation award as part of this year's Governor of Victoria Export Awards. Company founder Eleanor Curtain was presented with the commendation award at...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
After establishing the Angus & Robertson Manly franchise territory 14 years ago, Sydney bookseller Sally Chilvers has decided it's time to move on. ‘I set out to build a bookshop...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Australia's Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that it is adopting ‘a range of strategies to accelerate payments to members in 2006/2007.' The initiatives are designed to enable CAL to...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
It's out with the old and in with the new. There are four new entries in this week's top 10 bestsellers. True crime makes a splash with Joanne Lee's No...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Pan Macmillan has announced a recall of Australian Jihad, a nonfiction account of the Bali bombings and subsequent investigations of Jemiah Islamiah, written by Walkley award-winning journalist Martin Chulov. The...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Science, technical and medical (STM) publishing group Springer has made an approach to buy Informa, the parent company of publisher Taylor & Francis.While the bid is being described by Informa...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Popular British travel writer Eric Newby, whose books include A Short Walk in Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines (both Pan Macmillan), has died of natural causes...