Tuesday, 12 August 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards was announced on Friday, 8 August, by Arts Minister Lynne Kosky at the State Library of Victoria. The 2008 Awards are...

Monday, 11 August 2008
HarperCollins Worldwide has announced its year-end financial results for the financial year to June 2008. The company reported full-year sales of US$1.39 billion (A$1.53 billion), an increase of three percent on...

Wednesday, 6 August 2008
'To be able to be relieved of the tyranny of feeding the machine at the bank or feeding the mortgage ... just to be able to get on with your...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the world blog in the past week:Rushdie to sue former bodyguard over bookBook trailer tops YouTubeS&S figures down in first halfBreaking Dawn breaks...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Two book-related businesses are among the finalists for the 2008 Telstra Victorian Business Awards. Melbourne-based design and book publishing company Ripe Off The Press is a finalist in the ‘micro-business'...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Amazon.com has announced that it has acquired AbeBooks. AbeBooks is an ‘online marketplace' that offers 'over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
The longlist for second annual Inkys--Teen Choice Book Awards, was announced on 1 August at the State Library of Victoria. Created by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
The shortlisted titles for the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced.The Australian Government has introduced the Prime Minister's Literary Awards ‘to recognise the major contribution of Australian literature...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Fifteen independent Canberra bookshops have banded together to produce a brochure intended to lure residents and tourists to visit the city's non-chain booksellers. Distributed at tourist centres around Canberra, The...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
The shortlist for this year's Age Book of the Year awards has been announced. The awards, now in their 35th year, offer three $10,000 prizes, one each for a work...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Books by Australian authors have taken five of the top 10 spots in the financial year's bestsellers, according to Nielsen BookScan. Nielsen BookScan has provided WBN with figures that show...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Penguin’s Little Library (board books for children) is top of the Bestsellers chart this week, and Odd Hours by Dean Koontz reigns supreme in the Highest New Entries chart. Koontz’s...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2008 National Retail Forum and 2008 Retail Expo Australasia, 12-14 August, Sydney‘You Can Heal Your...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Nobel Prizewinning author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Sozenitsyn has died aged 89. His best-known book One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch, based on his own experiences, chronicled the...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The first day of this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival, held over the weekend at the Byron Bay Beach Resort, was cancelled due to flooding and mud on the festival...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
‘I have bemoaned the price of books in Australia ever since I arrived here, but now I understand the implications I'll buy from Australian bookshops when I can'--writes ‘Lizabelle', commenting...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
HarperCollins has announced the creation of a web application that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to browse e-book extracts and the option to purchase the titles online via the Dymocks...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:students scanning textbooks to file-sharehealthy half-yearly result for PearsonPN's Liz Thomson looks back on 25 yearsHachette...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
‘Mr Paparazzi' recalledPenguin has announced a recall of Mr Paparazzi by Darren Lyons (Viking, ISBN 9780670029563) due to ‘impending legal action' (see Classified). Melbourne writer wins Lorian Hemingway Short Story...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Best first fictionA Fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz, Hamish...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The 2008 Books Alive campaign started last Sunday, 27 July, with the public release of the 50 Books You Can't Put down booklet and this year's free book, Michael Robotham's...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Australian Literary Agents Association (ALAA) has written a letter to the Prime Minister arguing against any change to Australia's territorial copyright rules. The letter, written by ALAA president Jenny...

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize....

Tuesday, 29 July 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the outcome of a strategic review, which will include the redundancies of two staff from the association's Sydney office: deputy CEO Janice Fewin...