Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Jerusalem International Book Fair, 15-20 FebruaryClosing date for nominations for the 2009 Pascall Prize, 20...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Be one of the first to see The Reader starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, based on the book by Bernhard Schlink. As a special offer for WBN subscribers, we are...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Hachette Australia had a ‘vintage year' in 2008, with sales up by 15%, managing director Malcolm Edwards told WBN. ‘Obviously, Stephenie Meyer had a lot to do with this,' Edwards...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Jean Srnecz, senior vice president of merchandising for Baker & Taylor, has died.

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill, writes: 'McGraw-Hill Australia would like to pay tribute to the life of one of our authors, Professor Rob Pierce. Tragically Rob died in...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) announced the finalists of the 2008 Australian Shadows Awards on Black Friday, February 13. Lee Battersby won the award, which honours the best and...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Hachette Australia has announced the appointment of Tegan Morrison to the role of children's publisher. Morrison, who has been senior editor for children's and young adult books at Penguin for...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
The New Zealand stationery and bookselling chain Paper Plus has announced the appointment of Joan Mackenzie to the position of group book manager. ‘We are extremely pleased with the appointment...

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of former ABC Books staff members Brigitta Doyle, Belinda Bolliger and Jane Finemore to its new ABC Books division. Doyle, formerly the managing editor of...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
'In the longer term there will be a rebuilding phase for those communities. It is then that the book industry will be needed to co-ordinate a response through the Victorian...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
ReadHowYouWant (RHYW), a special format publisher, has launched an online Braille bookshop ‘in celebration of Louis Braille's 200th birthday'. The Sydney-based company offers public domain works, as well as current...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Caro Llewellyn, the former director of PEN World Voices Festival who was appointed director of the Melbourne's new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in December, has announced that she...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Pat Woolley, director of Wild & Woolley/Fast Books, writes: ‘I am astounded at the great submissions to the productivity commission that have been written by so many writers, printers, publishers,...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog:Kolkata Book Fair expects two million visitorsIndia to take 73 stands at LBFGoogle offers 1.5 million free ebooks for mobilesAnother bad...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
The Highest New Entries chart holds the most interest this week, as it is the only chart that doesn't feature Stephenie Meyer in abundance, or at all. John Grisham's The...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Booksellers NZ Conference 2009 dates and theme announcedThe 2009 Booksellers Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland, 26 to 27 July, with the theme ‘Rethinking the...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Jerusalem International Book Fair, 15-20 FebruaryWriters at the Convent, Abbotsford, VIC, 13-15 FebruaryTo view these...

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Puerto Rican writer and boxer Jose Torres has died, aged 72. Torres wrote Fire and Fear (released in 1989) a book about Mike Tyson.

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
In rights news this week: NonfictionHarperCollins has acquired the rights to the political autobiography of former Prime Minister John Howard. The New Glucose Revolution by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell and Professor...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Book Expo Canada cancelledUK book output up in 2008Google Books and 'the tragedy of the anti-commons'Is Houghton...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Josie Rusher's Robert Pattinson: True Love Never Dies comes in at number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week. For anyone unaware who Robert Pattinson is, Stephenie Meyer...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
‘The proponents of the current protectionist regime rely on inaccurate, often emotive arguments including the alleged number of Australian titled books produced in Australia. The Chief Executive Officer of the...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Steve Braunias and Julian Novitz have been announced as joint winners of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Each writer will receive a $20,000 grant, and will spend five months...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
New Zealand-born author Ruth Park has been named the recipient of the 2008 Dromkeen Medal. Born in 1917, Park began writing early, contributing stories and poems to newspapers in New...