Thursday, 17 September 2009
The shortlisted titles for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett at the State Library of Victoria on Friday 18 September. Garrett,...

Thursday, 17 September 2009
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang and Night Street by Kristel Thornell have been jointly named the winning manuscripts in the 2009 Australian/Vogel award. Judges Cate Kennedy, Matt Rubinstein, Margo Lanagan...

Wednesday, 16 September 2009
The date on which the federal cabinet will make a decision on the recent Productivity Commission recommendations to remove Australia's book parallel importation laws remains unclear, with some in the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Following the announcement that it has acquired Universal Publishers (UP), Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Ian Webster as managing director of UP. ‘Ian brings considerable experience to the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
WBN's sister publication Australian Library News (ALN) has launched a new website at www.librarynews.com.au.The site contains information about ALN, the only independent, weekly news source on the library sector in...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Authors taking pay cuts as advances fallPatterson signs 17-book dealBooker chair slams 'sloppy editing'UK...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Pearson Australia has announced a partnership with online platform provider VIP Tone. ‘VIP Tone's EduTone XchangeTM Platform provides single sign-on authentication for teachers, students and parents, to simplify access to...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
‘It can only be good for all of us if more people are in the stores'--Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster in the US, on the release of Dan...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Infectious Diseases: Atlas, Cases, Text (Robin A Cooke, McGraw-Hill Education Australia) has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Competition's BMA Illustrated Book Award, announced in London on 8...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
The University of Melbourne has announced it will establish a ‘new and exciting' bookstore in early 2010. The bookstore, which will merge the recently acquired SPP Medical Bookshop with the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Finch Publishing has today launched a new annual nonfiction award for Australian authors. The Finch Memoir Prize will be awarded to an unpublished nonfiction manuscript in the form of a...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
The finalists for the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award have been announced. In the running for the $60,000 Melbourne prize for Literature for a ‘Victorian author...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
‘Twilight' books removed from some school librariesLibrarians in some primary schools have reportedly removed Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' series from shelves and asked parents not to allow students to bring the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Attendance at this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival, which wrapped up on Sunday 13 September having run from the 9 September was 29,000, up from 28,000 in 2008. ‘More than 250...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Indonesian poet, writer, dramatist, cultural activist and theatre director, W S Rendra has died, aged 73.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Then by Morris Gleitzman (Viking) has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. ‘To succeed in writing about the Holocaust with a light touch is rare indeed, but Morris...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
No less than 33 titles reviewed in the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher received four stars or more from our obviously very impressed reviewers. Among these were Peter Carey's Parrot and...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
In rights news this week: Rights soldFiction--Random House has sold German language rights in Paul Cleave's forthcoming crime title Blood Men to Heyne Verlag.  Nonfiction--Random House has sold North American...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
As announced in the Australian on Saturday 12 September, the shortlist for the 2009 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award has been chosen. The manuscripts shortlisted for this year's Award--which includes publication...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
An ebook version of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Transworld), which went on sale in hard copy yesterday, will be available for purchase from the Random House Australia (RHA) website...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
There has been something of a respite from Stephanie Meyer titles this week and as we wait for the Dan Brown phenomena to take over (The Lost Symbol was released...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Books Alive 2009--author events--Toni Jordan & Gretel Killeen, Noosa, QLD, 17 SeptemberReadings Create Your Own...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Tracey Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, topped the Most Mentioned chart in Media Extra this week with her new novel Remarkable Creatures. It's a story set in...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
American poet, diarist and musician Jim Carroll has died, aged 60. His most famous work is The Basketball Diaries.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
English bookseller and author Ian Norrie has died, aged 82. He wrote, among others, The Business of Lunch: A Bookman’s Life and Travels.