Tuesday, 8 September 2009
HarperCollins Publishers has announced it will be introducing a second 'new title' release each month. The publisher will be changing the delivery date of its new releases and, from November, introducing...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Hachette Australia has announced that, from November, all titles under its Hachette Australia imprint will be printed on either FSC or PEFC paper. The publisher will include the FSC and PEFC...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
An Australian ‘online, interactive, full curriculum learning system' has been selected by Cambridge University Press as its global flagship ICT mathematics resource. Created over nine years, HOTmaths is a suit...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Crime author Kathy Reichs has done the unthinkable! This week she has knocked Stephenie Meyer off her comfy number one spot in the Bestsellers chart with 206 Bones. Will it...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Overload Poetry Festival, 4-13 SeptemberAustralian Copyright Council--2009 training program--Adelaide, 8-11 SeptemberBooks Alive 2009--author events--Melina Marchetta...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Australian authors J M Coetzee and Cate Kennedy were neck-and-neck for the top place on the Media Extra Most Mentioned chart this week. These weren't the only Australian writers to...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Authors on tour from September to November: SeptemberJeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution)Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print)Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage)Padma Viswanathan, UWA Publishing...

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
British author and journalist Keith Waterhouse has died, aged 80. His most famous work was the novel Billy Liar.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced the appointment of Dennis Haskell as chair of the Australia Council Literature Board, for a three-year term. Haskell replaces Imre Salusinszky to who Garrett...

Monday, 7 September 2009
This year's Indigenous Literacy Day, held last Wednesday 2 September to support the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), revealed ‘a wave of support and goodwill right around Australia', according to ILP...

Monday, 7 September 2009
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the ‘soft launch' of its new Australian website. The new website at www.simonandschuster.com.au is ‘the first step' in an ongoing plan to improve...

Monday, 7 September 2009
Hardie Grant acquires Universal PublishersPlease note that in a story in last week's WBN our heading incorrectly referred to Hardie Grant purchasing Universal Publishing. In fact, as stated in the story,...

Monday, 7 September 2009
Dale Campisi of Arcade Publications reports: Port Fairy's annual Ex Libris Book Fair celebrated 10 years last weekend 5-6 September. The festival drew hundreds of people to the historic Victorian south west...

Sunday, 6 September 2009
In rights news this week: Rights soldFiction--Hachette Australia has sold As Darkness Falls and Dark Country (Bronwyn Parry) to the UK and The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti) to Germany....

Sunday, 6 September 2009
The winners of this year's Janet Frame Awards have been announced. Geoff Cochrane was the winner for poetry and Alison Wong for fiction. The Wellington authors receive NZ$10,000 (A$8,000) each...

Sunday, 6 September 2009
The winners of this year's Book Publishers Association of New Zealand were announced on Thursday 3 September. The best book award went to the popular Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
'We should never forget that a language isn't just a dialect, it is a whole way of looking at the world, the universe...'--author Richard Flanagan discussing Indigenous languages on last Thursday's...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
As the 4 September deadline for opting into or out of the Google Settlement approaches, the New Zealand Society of Authors has expressed shock that the New Zealand Government has...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
An iPhone version of Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro has been released for download, worldwide, by Cave's UK publisher Canongate, in cooperation with other rights-holders. The text is...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Today is the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day, with fundraising events taking place around the country and many booksellers and publishers donating a percentage of their profits to the Indigenous...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Among the many stories from the international book scene added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Ebooks could kill hardbacks, warns Hachette headUp to 400 US bookstores...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The shortlist for the Colin Roderick Award, for the best book on an Australian topic published in 2008, has been announced. The Award received a ‘record number' of submissions, said...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
In rights news this week:FictionHarperCollins has sold Kylie Chan's ‘Dark heavens' trilogy to the UK; Linda Jaivin's A Most Immoral Woman to Hungary; Karen Miller's Hammer of God to the...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The newly formed Australian Children's Literature Alliance (ACLA) has announced that its website will be launched in October. ‘The website will be a "one-stop shop" for the children's and young...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were presented at a dinner last night at Zinc, Federation Square, Melbourne. Premier John Brumby, who presented the awards, noted that for 25 years the...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The 2009 Australian Christian Literature Awards (for a Christian work by an Australian author, published in Australia) have been announced. The first place prize for Book of the Year went to Naomi...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Author John Flanagan was announced as the 2009 National Literacy Ambassador during the current National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW), by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The ambassador will exist in order...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The cabinet response to the Productivity Commission's recommendation that Australia remove parallel import restrictions on books may come sooner than originally anticipated, with some indications cabinet may decide on the issue...