Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Clark wins ABR poetry prizeRoss Clark has been announced as the winner of the fourth Australian Book Review (ABR) poetry prize his poem ‘Danger: Lantana.'ABR celebrates 300 issuesThe April issue...

Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookshop has stepped back in time in its role as the official bookseller to the State Library of Victoria's (SLV) new exhibition The Medieval Imagination.Reader's Feast's Mary...

Monday, 31 March 2008
Hachette Livre’s parent company, Lagardere, has reported a ‘fine performance’ for 2007, with earnings before interest and tax up by 9.4%. Locally, the managing director of Hachette Livre Australia reported...

Monday, 31 March 2008
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched an education and advocacy group for graphic novel writers and artists. The ‘Comics/Graphic Novels Portfolio’ will ‘actively support a neglected (and often...

Monday, 31 March 2008
Dymocks’s seven-year-old charity arm, the Dymocks Literacy Foundation, is to donate 2,652 books to ten pre-schools and special needs schools along the Gold Coast.Titles from Libby Gleeson, Anthony Browne, Anna...

Monday, 31 March 2008
Feather Man, poet Rhyll McMaster's debut novel (Brandl & Schlesinger), has won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award.Founded by the late ABC film critic John Hinde to commemorate his author wife, the...

Monday, 31 March 2008
Online book sales are flourishing compared other areas of online retail, but booksellers could be doing better still, according to a new report.In a survey of 1215 Australian consumers, consultancy...

Monday, 31 March 2008
As first reported in a WBN Special Bulletin, the shortlisted titles in this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlist for...

Monday, 31 March 2008
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Agents 'lazy' about new media rightsTintin heads for the big screenOddest title award winnerDo you 'buy'...

Monday, 31 March 2008
The 9th national conference of the Children's Book Council of Australia, to be held in Melbourne from 2 to 4 of May, will be opened by Astrid Lindgren award-winner Sonya...

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Following an announcement in February that they would be merging, Brumby Books & Music, Bookwise, Gary Allen and Tower Books have announced a name for the new combined group. The...

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Stories posted to our Around the World blog this week include:UK publishers don't realise how much Aussies resent them, says RosenbloomBuy a book, plant a treeCookery books will be gone...

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian) has been nominated for yet another award, this time in the United States. The Arrival has been nominated for a Hugo in the official...

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Coming in at number one this week in the Highest New Entries chart is children’s book Columbia Sneezes! Not about Columbians with hay fever problems as the title may suggest,...

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Victorian Community History Awards entries close, 28 MarchContemporary Australian Fiction Festival, NSW Writers' Centre, 29...

Monday, 24 March 2008
Australia's Workplace Ombudsman, Nicholas Wilson, has warned retailers to abandon attempts to ‘get around' workplace laws. The warning came after a Melbourne retailer was fined $30,000 for underpaying two casual...

Monday, 24 March 2008
The media group Bertelsmann, parent company of Random House Australia, is exploring the sale of its book club unit, Direct Group. Chief Executive Hartmut Ostrowski said that ‘every strategic option' would...

Monday, 24 March 2008
Random House Australia'sÿparent company Bertelsmann has reported a decline in profit for 2007, but the publisher's results in Australia 'wereÿstrong in 2007 andÿin line withÿexpectations,' according to Random House Australia's...

Monday, 24 March 2008
Registration is now open for this year's Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in Melbourne on 15-17 June. All ABA members, bookshop owners, franchisees, managers, head office management, staff...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
The NSW Writers' Centre will present the 2008 Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival on Saturday 29 March, co-presented by the UTS Centre for New Writing. Guests will include Gabrielle Carey, Katherine...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award.The six shortlisted authors come from three states: three from Victoria, two from New South Wales and one from South...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Schwartz Media, publisher of the Monthly magazine, Quarterly Essay and Black Inc., has launched a new internet TV venture, SlowTV (slowtv.com.au).SlowTV will deliver online video content--interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures on...