Tuesday, 6 June 2006
The UK-based Whitbread Book Awards are to be renamed the Costa Book Awards, reflecting a change of sponsor from hospitality group Whitbread to its retail brand Costa Coffee.The Whitbread Awards...

Tuesday, 6 June 2006
Grant Thornton International, the company appointed as administrators over the Collins Booksellers company stores in April 2005, has released a third report into the company, revealing that unsecured creditors will...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Sydney's The Next Chapter Books-owned by Maurine Clear, Lyn Hogan and Richard Hogan-has announced that it has bought the long-established Books Etcetera store at Wahroonga from Janet and Richard Grundy....

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The 2006 Sydney Writers' Festival wound up last Sunday, with a closing night address by Alain de Botton before an audience of over 2000 at the Sydney Opera House. Spread...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The Melbourne Writers' Festival (MWF) has begun to announce some details of this year's event, to be held from 25 August to 3 September.Among the international writers who will be...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Over 500 people attended the inaugural Sydney Jewish Writers' Festival, which was held from May 17-21. The festival was organised by The Shalom Institute at the University of New South...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
As reported in WBN on 5 April, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP) has been experiencing some financial difficulties. FACP's publisher Ray Coffey has now released a statement saying that ‘like...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
After the success of a picture book and artwork display at the 2006 Taipei Book Exhibition (TIBE) and at other venues in Taiwan, organised by Asialink, Books Illustrated and the...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The 2005 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards culminated with a gala presentation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20 May. Over 6000 books from 67 different countries were entered in this year's...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Eminent Aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has been honoured with the 2005 Australia Council for the Arts Writers Emeritus Award. The Australia Council (OzCo)describes the $50,000 Writers Emeritus...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has backed the recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) that sedition should be removed entirely from the statute books as a crime.The...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Brisbane-based author Nick Earls has been named as Queensland's 2006 Multicultural Champion.Earls, who migrated to Australia from Northern Ireland as a child in 1972, trained as a doctor before swapping...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Bertelsmann, the German-based parent company of Random House, which is controlled by the Mohn family, has again headed off a proposal to float the company on the stock market.Instead of...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The biennial Jerusalem Book Fair has announced new dates for its 2007 event in order to prevent a clash with the rescheduled London Book Fair. The Jerusalem Book Fair will...

Wednesday, 31 May 2006
The winner of this year's Le Prince Maurice Prize is Louise Dean for her debut novel Becoming Strangers (S&S).The Le Prince Maurice Prize is awarded each year in Mauritius and...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, the owner of Netherlands-based subscriptions company Swets Information Services, has announced its annual figures for 2005, showing an ‘outstanding performance,’ according to a company release.Globally, net...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
US-based religious publisher Thomas Nelson has released its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2006. Both income and revenue increased six percent on 2004-05, with income up to...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
A group of private equity firms led by Valcom have been successful in their revised bid to take over VNU, the Netherlands-based owner of A C Neilsen (see WBN 10...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a major restructure at its US office, combining the trade and academic divisions. Trade publisher Ellen Chadosh, chief operating officer Barbara Wasserman and director...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The winners of the Audies, the annual awards of the US-based Audio Publishers Association, have been announced.Winner of the audio book of the year is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The inaugural Cape Town Book Fair in South Africa begins in under a month, on 17 June, and the fair’s organisers—the Frankfurt Book Fair—are expecting a strong turn-out, with all...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced a new pricing structure to go with its change of venue to Earls Court in 2007, matching the rates initially offered by thwarted...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
This year’s Book Expo America (BEA) was held last week in Washington, DC. Reports in the US trade press indicate that the expo was generally well-received and well-attended. One qualm...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The winners of the 10th annual New Zealand Post Book Awards 2006 were announced on Wednesday 17 May. The junior fiction award went to Hunter by Joy Cowley (Puffin); the...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
This year’s Galley Club Awards shortlist has been announced, recognising the books of the highest standard of print and production. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on the 23...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The Macquarie Bank Foundation, a philanthropic arm of Macquarie Bank, has announced that it will support the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP) to the value of £50,000 (A$120,000). The foundation’s...

Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The Asia Pacific New Writing Partnership (APNWP) is a new international collaborative writing venture, showcasing new writing from and about Asia and the Pacific at writers’ festivals around the region...