Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Following the renewal of funding for the Books Alive campaign for another four years, announced in last week's federal budget, director Cheryl Akle reports the 2009 campaign is travelling well....

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Dymocks has reopened in Brisbane in a small temporary store ‘almost diagonally opposite' the old Edwards street store. ‘It's about fifty metres across the road from where we were, so...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Dymocks will open a new store in the Wellington CBD area ‘as soon as possible', following the closure of its Lambton Quay franchise on Monday, according to Dymocks CEO Don...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Christos Tsiolkas has won the Overall Best Book Award for The Slap (A&U) in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP), announced on Saturday at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. The...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (AWRF) concluded on Sunday, having run from 13 to 17 May. The organisers have called it a ‘momentous success' with attendances up 89% on...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
As the nights draw in and cats find warm places to curl up (in the southern realms of Australia at any rate), crime lovers and vampire-romance fans are going for...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival, 18-24 MayWarsaw International Book Fair, 21 MayThe Emerging Writers' Festival, Melbourne,...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
In the May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher, which includes the Term 2 issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher, you'll find: 47 reviews of new Australian and New Zealand adult and children's titlesauthor interviews with Belinda...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
‘Book-dumping--i.e. of remainders--is only a marginal risk. Kinokuniya's buyers have agreed not to knowingly purchase Australian author's books as remainders from overseas remainder merchants. Kinokuniya does this out of respect...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Writing about how the Productivity Commission could ‘usefully spend its additional time' in studying parallel importation legislation in Australia, former John Wiley & Sons managing director Peter Donoughue posed the...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
In rights news this week:Nonfiction Hardie Grant has sold rights to Eat Ate by Guy Mirabella in co-edition deal to Inmerc Publishers (Kosmos) in the Netherlands, and rights to The Future of Cricket...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
In what managing director Daniel Jordon said was ‘a major initiative', Collins Booksellers will be introducing a loyalty scheme in the December quarter of 2009.Jordon told WBN the chain also...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Nielsen BookData has announced the shortlist for the 2009 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award, worth $NZ2500 ($AU1986). New Zealand booksellers vote for the book they have most enjoyed...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
New sponsor for NZ Book AwardsThe New Zealand Post will becomes the naming-rights sponsor of the New Zealand Book Awards from 2010 after the decision of Pernod Ricard New Zealand...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
The Scribo Group has announced the appointment of Jon Attenborough to the role of general manager at Bookwise International. Attenborough, formerly managing director at Simon & Schuster Australia, took up...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon launches Kindle DXAmazon Kindle store optimised for iPhoneHarperCollins sales drop 19.5% in a quarterS&S posts 20%...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
As reported in a WBN special bulletin last week, the Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen has announced an extended deadline of 30 June for the Productivity Commission's report to government on parallel...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Tim Winton’s Breath tops the Highest New Entries chart this week as people get their mitts on the paperback version. Super sleuth Colin Mclaren’s book Infiltration: The True Story of...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: A Commonwealth Bill of Rights: Do We Need It? -- panel discussion, Eltham, VIC, 13...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Author and ‘ghost hunter' Hans Holzer has died, aged 89. He was best known for Murder At Amityville.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Newly appointed Brisbane Writers Festival artistic director Jane O'Hara has announced some changes for this year's festival. ‘In addition to the more "traditional" genres [this year's festival] will reach out...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Author/publishers Michael Wilding and Phillip Edmonds have announced the launch of  Press On, a new publisher modelled on 18th- and 19th-century subscription models. Wilding told WBN one reason behind the...

Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookstore has become one of the first independent bookstores to carry a range of ebook readers. The store stocks the Bookeen Cybook, Irex iLiad (V2 and Book...

Monday, 11 May 2009
The shortlists for the Kibble Literary award and Dobbie Encouragement award 2009 have been announced. The Kibble Literary award, worth $25,000, recognises the work of an established Australian female writer....

Monday, 11 May 2009
Dymocks in Brisbane's CBD has closed due to the expiration of its current lease. The store closed on Tuesday 28 April. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told WBN that Dymocks was...

Monday, 11 May 2009
Australia's Biggest Book Group is a new initiative formed to raise funds and awareness for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The initiative, established by Lucy Burns, encourages the public to buy...