Monday, 8 December 2008
In addition to last week's Christmas closing list the following organisations have advised us of their closing dates: Book and Music Market (Gold Coast) Last day: 23/12/08 First day: 5/1/09 Era...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Next week's WBN (Wednesday 10 December) will be the last for 2008. The first WBN for 2009 will be published on Wednesday 7 January.In the interim period WBN will continue...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
ILP auction raises $8000 The recent auction broadcast on 702 ABC Sydney raised $8000 for the Indigenous Literacy Project. The winning bidder will receive a large set of signed and...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report undertaken for the Australian Copyright Council has found that Australia's copyright industries generated $97.7 billion in economic activity in 2007. The report, which was released by the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
A total of $250,000 has been dedicated to literature projects in the Victorian Government's latest round of arts grants. This includes $50,000 to longstanding literary journal Overland; $30,000 to the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
‘Referring this subject to the Productivity Commission is like asking duck-hunters what they'd like to shoot'--Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom responding to the Productivity Commission's study of book importation laws on...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Don Watson's American Journeys (Knopf) has been awarded the 2008 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book. The annual awards for excellence in journalism were presented in Melbourne last week. As...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
The shortlist for the inaugural Territory Read Literature Award, celebrating Northern Territory literature, has been announced. The shortlist consists of: Alone on the Soaks (Alec Kruger/Gerard Waterford, IAD Press)A Monster...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Hachette Livre Australia has announced it is changing its name to Hachette Australia. ‘Alongside this name change, we are also pleased to announce the launch of a new company logo,...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Derek Dryden, owner of the Better Read Than Dead (BRTD) bookshop in Sydney's Newtown, has announced the appointment of Sally Chilvers to the newly created role of general manager. ‘With...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
CEO of the University Co-operative Bookshop Simon Milne has announced his resignation. ‘There have been many significant successes over the last seven years,' he said of his time at the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
WBN has begun its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers to find out how the industry is faring during its peak selling period. We are in the process of calling booksellers...

Monday, 1 December 2008
Cookbooks, sports books, Bryce Courtenay and a Clive Cussler title topping the charts this week? Must be Christmas! Donna Hay's No Time to Cook is number one in the Fastest...

Monday, 1 December 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico, 29 November-7 DecemberAustralian Poetry Slam final, Sydney, 4 DecemberOpen Access...

Monday, 1 December 2008
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:the ethics of pirated e-booksbook on religious tolerance wins CAN$75,000 awardBriscoe wins Ugly libel caseyoung publishers...

Monday, 1 December 2008
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. CompanyLast day of businessFirst day of businessAllen & Unwin24/12/085/1/09Alliance Distribution ServicesClosed on all public holidays and 2/1/09 Andrews...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
'The thoughts behind this issues paper come from people who obviously do not read Australian authors, have contempt for their works and would prefer all Australians to read only foreign...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher is now online here, featuring author interviews with Peter Singer, Ross Gibson, Kate De Goldi and John A Flanagan, 42 book reviews, a round-up of...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
It's that time of the year again! Over the next week WBN will be hitting the phones to conduct our annual pre-Christmas survey, speaking to as many booksellers as we can...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Random US freezes pensions U Minn Press reissues entire backlist UK booksellers suffer from discounting...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Productivity Commission today released its issues paper on ‘copyright restrictions on the parallel importation of books', as part of its study commissioned by the federal government. The issues paper...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Public Lending Right (PLR) Committee has released its annual report, showing it approved annual payments of over $7 million for the financial year 2007-08. Annual payments of $7646010.58 were...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced ‘licensing revenue of $107 million alongside payments of more than $90 million to copyright owners'. The agency also announced it had acquired a...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Melbourne University Bookshop (MUB) has announced that it has acquired Standish Prideaux & Pye (SPP) Medical Bookshop. The acquisition will take effect from 5 January next year.‘SPP will continue trading...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Cambridge University Press has reported organic sales growth of 9% for the financial year ended 30 April 2008. When the acquisition of the Japanese wholesaler United Publishers' Services Worldwide is...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
The shortlist for the biennial Tasmanian Book Prize has been announced. In the running for the $25,000 prize, awarded to the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre, are:Van...