Tuesday, 24 November 2009
‘At Text we still hold firm to that old maxim that bad s-x is like bad pizza--it's never that bad,' Nick Cave's Australian publishing team at Text, on the news that...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:  B&N moves to block investorIs Borders UK on the verge of collapse?Universities boycott...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--UQP has sold French rights to The Kiss of Saddam (Michelle McDonald) to Editions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch/Balland and Polish rights of the same title to Swiat...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Readings wins music retailing ARIAReadings Carlton in Melbourne is the winner of the 2009 ARIA Retailer of the Year Award for best independent specialist in Victoria. Other state winners were...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Angels Over Elsinore by Clive James (Picador) is on the shortlist for the Costa Poetry Prize, awarded as part of the 2009 Costa Book Awards. The collection was described by...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Jayne Wasmuth has announced that she will step down as general manager of Leading Edge Books. Wasmuth, who said she was leaving to pursue other opportunities, told WBN: ‘It has...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Booksellers NZ has announced the ratification of its new constitution, which will come into effect on 1 April 2010. The new constitution reflects a decision by booksellers and publishers at...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Custom publisher Pindar New Zealand has announced that managing director Gerard Reid is ‘stepping down from active management of the business', due to ill health. Reid will be replaced in...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced the appointment of Eloise Nolan to role of rightsholder relations manager. Nolan has been appointed to the position to replace Ross McCaul, who has...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Nick Cave's novel The Death of Bunny Munro (Text) has been named as a finalist in this year's Bad S-x in Fiction Award. ‘At Text we still hold firm to...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Land I Came Through Last (Robert Gray, Giramondo), has won this year's CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. Gray's family memoir was among 160 works nominated for the prize,...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Film rights to Tim Winton's Miles Franklin-winning novel Breath (Penguin) have been acquired by Australian actor Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson. ‘Baker, who has been surfing since childhood, will...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
HarperCollins will establish a new area within the company, charged with ‘finding ambitious innovative solutions', HarperCollins CEO Michael Moynahan has announced. ‘As we pursue growth in an ever-changing market, it is...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Bookglobe Bookshop, an online bookseller based in Sydney, has been launched. The online store, founded by director John Phillip Harding, is a general bookstore with special categories on religious and...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera (The Whale Rider, Raupo) has offered to buy back all the remaining copies of The Trowenna Sea (Raupo), reports the New Zealand Herald. The offer...

Monday, 23 November 2009
High-profile male authors have taken over the charts this week with Matthew Reilly's The Five Greatest Warriors coming in at number one in the Bestsellers, James Patterson's I, Alex Cross...

Monday, 23 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA Victorian branch 2009 Christmas party, Melbourne, 25 November Inky Awards--winners announced, 26 November Guadalajara...

Monday, 23 November 2009
Shrinking the World: The 4000-Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John Freeman made the top of the Most Mentioned chart in Media Extra this week....

Monday, 23 November 2009
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise WBN of their Christmas closing dates by COB Friday 27 November 2009. A full list will appear once only in WBN on Wednesday 2 December, listing each...

Monday, 23 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: NovemberSusan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater)Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough)Judy Nunn, Random House...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The winners of this year's YABBA Victorian children's choice book awards have been announced. The winners were: Fiction Years 7-9: Then (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)Fiction Older Readers: Specky Magee And The...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Su Tong wins Man Asia PrizeRandom US sees big increases in ebook salesHarlequin launches...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera, whose failure to acknowledge passages from other authors in his recent novel The Trowenna Sea (Raupo) has caused controversy recently, has been named a laureate...

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Dymocks CEO Don Grover is calling for a booksellers meeting to discuss and launch a campaign for reform to the industry, following the Government's rejection last week of the Productivity Commission's...