Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Due to the volume of responses we've had to our post-Xmas survey, the number-crunching is taking a bit longer than expected. We will publish the results of the survey as...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
'We looked at it on its own merits and we decided not to publish it for legal reasons'--Pan Mac's Annie Coulthard explains why we're not all reading the unauthorised bio...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog recently:Romantic novel award shortlist'W00t' crowned 'word of the year'Fanfic writers call for copyright shake-upShould libraries 'back-up' DRM-protected e-books?Amazon pays millions...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The Random House Group has announced the promotion of Michael Moynahan (pictured) to chairman of Random House New Zealand (RHNZ). In addition to his new responsibilities in New Zealand, Moynahan...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
McGraw-Hill has announced a global restructure, with over 600 jobs cut worldwide, 300 of them in McGraw-Hill Education publishing businesses.Murray St Leger, MD of McGraw-Hill Australia/New Zealand, told WBN that locally...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Murdoch Books has announced that Amanda Roberts will move to a full-time role as international sales director, with ‘direct responsibility for the sales initiatives in the USA, the UK and...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Pan Macmillan's decision not to publish Tom Cruise, An Unauthorised Biography (Andrew Morton) in Australia has made headlines both here and overseas in the past week. The book, which reportedly...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The bestsellers have gone to the movies this week. Ian McEwan's Atonement takes top spot, as the film takes off around the country amid all the hype about that green...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
The The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) has won the American Library Association (ALA) 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal--the first time that a novel has won the top...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Louise Egerton from Allen & Unwin writes: Author and marine zoologist Isobel Bennett has died, aged 98. An honorary Master of Science, an Officer of the Order of Australia and recipient of...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Cheryl Akle has been appointed project director of Books Alive, following the departure of Brett Osmond. ‘I've watched and admired this fabulous project from afar,' Akle told WBN, adding that...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Lonely Planet (LP) has announced the appointment of Alex Fenby as global publisher, following the departure of Simon Westcott in December. Fenby, who assumed the position on 7 January, joined...

Friday, 11 January 2008
You will soon be able to subscribe to THORPE-Bowker's Weekly Book Newletter and Media Extra services--or renew your subscription--online, following the launch of a new subscription management module to Bookseller+Publisher Online, due...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog:Seinfelds sued over cookbook plagiarism claimsWinning author refuses Nestle Prize chequeMan Booker judges announcedPratchett has Alheimer'sHP8 rumoursFor more details, click...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
'This woman is another kind of nut. You know, she thinks she invented vegetables. And she is accusing my wife of stealing her mashed-up carrots'--comedian Jerry Seinfeld defending his wife...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Blake Dawson business literature prize shortlistFour book have been shortlisted for the 2007 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. They are National Market, National Interest (Edna Carew, A&U), Indecent Disclosure:...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
New Zealand's Storylines festival has announced that UK author/illustrator Babette Cole and Australian author Carole Wilkinson will head the guest-list for its 2008 event.Storylines 2008 will be held in venues...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Following last year's announcement that Hachette's speculative fiction imprint Orbit was setting up an Australian division, Orbit and the Queensland Writers' Centre have announced a manuscript development program for aspiring...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Rob Kolman has been appointed as the managing director of Elsevier Australia. Kolman comes to Elsevier Australia from Reed Business Information (RBI) in The Netherlands, where he was responsible for...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookstore has donated a library consisting of 800 new books to The Portsea Camp, a not-for-profit children's charity that assists disadvantaged and special-needs children. Reader's Feast manager...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
The winner of the 2007 Iremonger award for writing on public issues was announced in December.The winning manuscript proposal is Once Were Radicals by Irfan Yusuf. The award carries prizemoney...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program will be held this year in conjunction with Adelaide Writers' Week.The list of confirmed participants to date is:Richard Beswick, managing director, Little,...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has accredited the Macquarie University Post-graduate Diploma in Editing & Publishing, making it the second tertiary publishing course in the country to receive the APA's...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Broadcaster SBS has announced that it has appointed Hardie Grant as its new books partner, along with a similar arrangement for music with Universal. SBS content sales and distribution manager...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
WBN will be hitting the phones later this week to gauge the trade's reaction to Christmas--was it a good season for booksellers and publishers? If you haven't been contacted in...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Catherine O'Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost (Scribe, February) recently won the UK's Costa First Novel Award, will be among the guests at this year's Perth Writers' Festival, which runs...