Monday, 13 July 2009
Tom Griffiths and Robert Kenny have jointly been awarded the 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, for their books Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South) and The...

Monday, 13 July 2009
Barry to deliver Sydney PEN lectureMax Barry will give a lecture on ‘risk' as part of the Sydney PEN Voices project, on 15 July in Sydney and 21 July in...

Monday, 13 July 2009
The longlist for the inaugural John Button Prize, worth $20,000, has been announced.The longlist features 31 titles, representing Australia's best writing on politics and public policy in the past year....

Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Among the many stories added to our around the world blog in the past week:Penguin UK makes 100 redundantAmazon to put ads into ebooks?Amazon hit with billion-dollar tax fine in...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
‘Australia's book industry is waiting anxiously for the release of a Productivity Commission report ... which could change the face of book retailing'--Kerry O'Brien, presenting a report on the parallel...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Specialist in alternative book formats ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has partnered with two more Australian publishers, Fremantle Press and Black Dog Books, to create alternative formats of their titles. Mark Tanner, publisher...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
FictionAllen & Unwin has sold rights to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap to Openhouse publishing in Korea, Mish in Slovenia and Ripol Classic in Russia; and rights to Kate Morton's The...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Chronicles Bookstore in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, closed on 31 May due to an increase in rent. Owners Sue and Ian Boyle ran Chronicles for four years, and the...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
HarperCollins book raises over $300,000 for bushfire appeal HarperCollins has announced that national sales from Black Saturday: Stories of Love, Loss and Courage from the Victorian Bushfires have ‘now contributed...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Lonely Planet opens its world-first concept store today in Sydney Airport's international terminal, as part of Sydney Airport's $500 million International Terminal redevelopment. Lonely Planet and Lagardère Services Asia Pacific...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced a funding concert to take place on 25 August 2009, during Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to raise funds for literary resources in remote...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced two programs of interest to the publishing industry to run as part of the 2009 festival: the Digital Publishing Program, and the Melbourne Visiting International...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Random House is offering consumers a free ebook of the Wil Anderson title Survival of the Dumbest, in what marketing manager Brett Osmond says is the publisher's ‘first Australian consumer ebook...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The NZ Digital Publishing Forum held a two-day conference in Auckland from 24 to 25 June, entitled ‘The Future of the Book'. The conference included a number of overseas guest...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Stephenie, Stephanie, whichever way you spell it, the name is at the top of the charts this week--Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse is at number one in the Bestsellers (no surprises there) and Stephanie Plum...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Common Readers and Cultural Critics, conference, Canberra, 8-11...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Authors on tour in July and August: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy) Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the 50ft...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
‘Whether it is the laws that protected authors and restricted the price or distribution of texts, traditional aesthetic categories and literary genres--the very structures used by libraries to order books,...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
WBN understands the Tower Books warehouse, based in Sydney, is due to close this month, with stock to move to the Bookwise warehouse in South Australia.Both Tower Books and Bookwise are...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The Productivity's Commission's final report on Australia's book parallel importation laws was delivered to recently appointed assistant treasurer Nick Sherry yesterday. A Commission spokesperson told WBN the report would be...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World section in the past week:2009 Bulwer-Lytton winner announcedPearson invests US$30 million in IndiaWikipedia plagiarism accustations dog Chris Anderson's Free US audiobook...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Readings Books, Music and Film has announced the creation of The Readings Foundation, established by Readings managing director Mark Rubbo to support ‘Victorian individuals and organisations that wish to further...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The shortlist for the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2009 has been announced. Over 200 entries were received for this year's awards. The full shortlist for all 18 categories is available from...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
FictionText Publishing has acquired Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder, to be published in November. Australian Jeremy Chambers' first book, The Vintage and the Gleaning, to publish mid-2010;...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
It's great to see a book from a relatively small publisher get top spot in the charts. IAD Press' Living Alongside the Animals Anangu Way is this week's ‘highest new...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Kids and YA Literature Festival, NSW Writers' Centre, 4-5 JulyReed Gift Fairs - Brisbane, 4-7...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
H B Gilmour, veteran publishing professional and bestselling author, has died, aged 69. She wrote The Trade, So Long, Daddy and The Muppets Take Manhattan, among others.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
New Zealand retailer The Warehouse goes online The Warehouse is offering online shopping within New Zealand, starting with books, DVDs, CDs, game software and gift cards. Chief executive Ian Morrice...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Kelly Brough as its new global online director. Taking over the position from Andy Conroy, who was seconded from the BBC in the...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Central Book Services has announced it has been contracted by Gardners Books, a UK distributor, to supply Australian titles. The agreement will cover only those Australian titles that are not...