Tuesday, 29 August 2006
As previously reported in WBN, the Australian newspaper intends to launch a monthly literary supplement in the vein of its now defunct Australian Review of Books. To be called the...

Tuesday, 29 August 2006
The Canberra Readers and Writers Festival held from 25 August to 27 August at the National Library of Australia was a success for the ACT Writers Centre, which has organised...

Tuesday, 29 August 2006
The Melbourne Writers' Festival kicked off last Friday 25 August with the announcement of the Age Book of the Year winners, followed by the festival's traditional keynote address, this year...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our Events Calendar, include: Children's Book Week, which wraps up on 25 August; the University of Melbourne Publishing & Communications annual...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The shortlist of books for this year's Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) awards--the ACT's children's choice book awards--has been announced. Voting begins on 1 September and finishes on 15 September with the winning...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
In news from our Around the World blog, arts and development funding body New Zealand Creative gets a new chief executive; Time Out booksellers launch a competition to find the...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has recently begun the process of moving 40 kilometres of its collection material into a new offsite storage facility.Despite the enormity of the task,...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The Victorian public library system has announced a new, state-wide internet catalogue and interlibrary loan system called LibraryLink.Launched last week, LibraryLink makes the catalogues of 42 metropolitan and 97 regional...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
As reported in a WBN special bulletin last Friday, the winners and honour books in this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Imagine how useful it would be if the whole book trade had access to the same calendar. Now it does!Our new online events calendar provides the whole industry with a way of...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Pan Macmillan has announced a new trade publishing division, Picador Asia. The imprint will aim to secure world rights to Asian titles to publish simultaneously in Asia, the UK, Australia and...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Rockpool Publishing, a new Australian publishing house owned by former Random House production manager Lisa Hanrahan and Gary Allen of book distributor Gary Allen Pty Ltd, will launch its list...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The Prime Minister, John Howard, has announced the creation of a new annual prize for Australian history. The prize, which the Prime Minister said could go to a substantial written...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The deadline for applications for grants from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Professional Development Fund is this Friday, 25 August. In 2005-06 $150,000 was allocated to the fund, which allocates...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
It looks like Australian readers like a little murder and mystery in their reading diet at the moment. The Husband, Dean Koontz's nail-biter about a landscape gardener whose wife is...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Jim Hall, former editor and literary editor of the Australian newspaper and editor of the Bulletin magazine, died last week, aged 71. Although he spent most of his career working...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Popular and prolific Australian playwright and author Alex Buzo has died at the age of 62, after a long battle with cancer. Buzo was best known for his 1968 play...

Tuesday, 22 August 2006
The importance of Australia as a rights market will be discussed at the 20th International Rights Directors Meeting, to be held the day before this year's Frankfurt Book Fair.The topic of this...

Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Michael Sellers, the son of comedian Peter Sellers, has died.Sellers wrote two memoirs about the difficult relationship he had with his father: PS I Love You (Sutton Publishing) and Sellers...

Tuesday, 15 August 2006
American author, environmentalist and anarchist Murray Bookchin has died, aged 85.Bookchin was the author of over 20 books on environmental and political topics, and his writings in the 1960s anticipated...

Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Australian theologian and biblical scholar Leon Morris has died, aged 92.Morris wrote more than 50 books that have sold nearly two million copies worldwide and have been translated into many...