Tuesday, 2 October 2007
In news from our Around the World blog this week:Amazon launches digital music storeMacmillan CEO leaves for Bloomsbury Perseus bid for PGW name approvedGoogle Book Search reloadedJohn Grisham and other authors...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
It's probably neither an outstanding nor a wacky record, but the latest 'Guinness Book' - Guinness World Records 2008 has garnered top spot this week in the charts. What could...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Watermark Literary Muster, Camden Haven, NSW 2 - 6 OctoberAustralian School Library Association Biennial Conference,...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Martin Hughes, a former Lonely Planet travel writer and former editor of The Big Issue, together with Graeme Wise, who set up The Big Issue in Australia, have launched a...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Australian authors Sonya Hartnett and John Marsden and New Zealand writer Joy Cowley have been nominated for the 2008 Astrid Lindgren memorial Award. The world's largest prize for children's and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Australian author Garth Nix has secured a seven-figure deal with HarperCollins in the US for North American rights to three new titles--including a prequel and sequel to his ‘Old Kingdom'...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Holtzbrinck, the parent of publisher Pan Macmillan, has reported a 7.5% increase in total revenue in 2006 to €2.24 billion (A$3.4 billion). The company, which has interests in newspapers and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
ABC Commercial hostsed its annual ABC Retail Conference in Sydney from 24 to 26 September. The three-day conference was attended by 160 delegates, including ABC Shop and Centre managers and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Following its acquisition of 75% of Melbourne-based travel publisher Lonely Planet (reported in a WBN special bulletin on Monday), BBC Worldwide has announced its intention to take the publisher's 500-plus guidebooks...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
The inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day, held around the country on Wednesday 5 September, has raised more than $120,000, with some donations yet to be received. David Gaunt, chair of the Indigenous...

Monday, 1 October 2007
Buyer wanted for Judith Wright’s homeThe chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Canberra is looking for a buyer for poet Judith Wright’s bushland home. The Australian National...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali 25 - 30 SeptemberApplications close for the John Curtain...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Text) by US writer and filmmaker Miranda July has won the 2007 Frank O'Connor award--the world's richest short story prize. July's debut collection...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
In news from our Around the World blog this week: New Borders UK owner outlines his plansOprah and the 'If I Did It' saga Audiobooks added to eMusic site Authors take...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) has announced the appointment of Tan Tat Chu to the role of president of ‘a newly formed Asia-Pacific Group that will combine the previously separate...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
'The fact is only about 30 or 40 per cent of people ever buy a book, so there is potential for a greater proportion of people to buy books.' So...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Clarification: Hachette NZ  Further to the 'in brief' story in last week's WBN, WBN wishes to clarify that Hodder Moa Beckett's name change to Hachette Livre NZ occured in early 2006. NSW...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
A ‘behind the scenes' title on celebrity culture by former New Zealand Woman's Day editor Wendyl Nissen that was due to be published by HarperCollins New Zealand in October (and...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Ian Rankin’s latest offering Exit Music takes the prize this week shunting Kathy Reich’s Bones to Ashes to second place. Rankin would hope it stays this way when he tours...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
The inaugural Manly ‘Writers on the Rooftop' festival, held as part of the Manly Arts Festival ‘went really well', attracting around 500 people, according to former Angus & Robertson frachisee...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Sally Bird from Calidris Literary Agency writes: 'It is with the deepest sadness that I advise of the death of travel writer Wendy Khadijah Moore. Wendy died from cancer on...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
The fifth Canberra Readers and Writers Festival was held in Canberra at Exhibition park alongside the Lifeline Bookfair from 21 to 23 September. According to festival director Anne-Marree Britton, highlights...

Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Further to last week's announcement that Allen & Unwin will move its distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to the Pearson-owned United Book Distributors (UBD), Hachette Livre Australia has confirmed...