Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Among the international booktrade stories recently added to our Around the World blog:No buyers for Borders UK storesHachette, HC, S&S hold back on ebook releasesAmazon sells more Kindle ebooks than...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
‘Trend: The large publishing houses will continue to reduce overhead as profits shrink in the years ahead. Counter trend: Publishers will be looking for mergers and acquisitions to compensate for...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Winners of the ACT Book of the Year and the ACT Poetry Prize for 2009 were announced late last year by ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope. A Guide to the...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has announced the poet David Howard is the recipient of its Mid-Career Writers Award. Howard has published several poetry collections including In The First...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Law firm Blake Dawson has announced the shortlist for the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature 2009 at the State Library of New South Wales. This award for business writing...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Sydney bookselling chain Berkelouw books now includes a wine bar in its Leichhardt store. Berkelouw Wine Bar, which received a positive review in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Living section, offers...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
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Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Happy New Year and welcome to the first issue of WBN for 2010. With 2009 over, it's time to turn our attention to the year ahead. What will be the...

Monday, 4 January 2010
Scribe has announced the longlisted authors for the inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. The authors are: George Dunford (A Butterfly Goodbye)Angus Gaunt (Under the Ha-Ha)Leah Kaminsky (The Waiting Room) Jonathan Marshall (A...

Monday, 4 January 2010
Jim Demetriou, COO of HarperCollins writes: ‘HarperCollins Publishers Australia is sad to advise that Barrie Hitchon, former CEO of HarperCollins ANZ, passed away peacefully, after a long battle with cancer,...

Monday, 4 January 2010
Matt Howard from New South writes: ‘UNSW Press sadly notes the passing of distinguished ecologist and author Charles Birch at age 91. Professor Birch was the former Challis Professor of...

Monday, 4 January 2010
Authors on tour in January include: Harvey Milkman, Footprint Books (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration)Paul Miller, Footprint Books (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music...

Monday, 4 January 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, WBN is giving away five copies of Balibo on DVD. Balibo was based on the book by Jill Jolliffe (Scribe). It's a political thriller and true story...

Monday, 4 January 2010
That good old stalwart the Guinness World Records 2010 comes up trumps for the new year, topping both the Bestsellers and Fastest Movers chart this week. Dan Brown isn't far...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:worst books of the decade?Amazon denies plans to open UK storesPublishers 'hopeful' over Borders...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
WBN will bring you the results of this year's pre-Christmas survey in a special bulletin on Friday. Booksellers, if your store has not yet participated in the survey, either by...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
‘Books definitely held their own as a Christmas gift item'--Okay, so it's not actually a quote from this week but WBN is hoping this comment on Christmas 2008, from Guy...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Martin to write ebook based on reader votesAustralian crime author P D Martin has announced she will write an ebook ‘with one key difference--each week anyone can vote on what...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Pam McIntyre, lecturer in language and literacy at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education, was presented with the 2009 Dromkeen Librarians Award at the annual Dromkeen Literary Luncheon...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Random House Australia has sold The Cleaner and Cemetery Lake (Paul Cleave) to Turkey.Nonfiction--Random House Australia has sold Grown up and Gorgeous in your 40s,...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Collins Booksellers has announced it is rolling out a new store design. A new Collins Booksellers store which opened in Berwick, Victoria, in October, was the first to feature the...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Aduki Press has been acquired by Chris Chinchilla. Chinchilla, who has a background a a musician, writer, and 'tech-geek', said the opportunity to buy the four-year-old independent Melbourne publisher was...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Magabala Books is among 10 'outstanding Indigenous arts and cultural organisations' that will receive substantial long-term funding under the National Indigenous Arts Infrastructure Program. Magabala Books will receive $200,000 annually...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Harlequin Enterprises has announced that its distribution will move from TL Distribution to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) from March next year. 'From 1 March 2010, HEDS will commence distribution...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Andrew Easton has announced he will leave the Scribo Group at the end of 2009. Easton has spent 10 years at Bookwise which became part of the Scribo Group in...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Baker & Taylor has announced its acquisition of Australia-based library supplier James Bennett. The acquisition is part of a larger deal with James Bennett's parent company Blackwell that will see...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Windy Hollow Books has announced the creation of a new picture book imprint to be produced by Helen Chamberlin and Tina Denham. Chamberlin, the recipient of the 2009 Pixie O'Harris...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
The finalists in this year's Aurealis Awards for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing have been announced. Wonders of a Godless World (Andrew McGahan, A&U) and Astropolis Book Three: The Grand...

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
New Zealand poet and short story writer Bub Bridger has died, aged 85. Her works included Up Here On The Hill and Wild Daisies: The Best of Bub Bridger.

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
It’s the last WBN of the year--who comes out on top of the Bestsellers chart? None other than that perennial bestseller Bryce Courtenay with The Story of Danny Dunn. Courtenay makes...