Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Dorothy Rowe ‘one of top 100 living geniuses'Psychologist and author Dorothy Rowe has been named as one of ‘the top 100 living genuises' by consultants Creators Synectics, who polled over...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
[this item ran last week with a number of typographical errors: WBN apologises for any inconvenience caused] The Australian Publishers Association and the Literature Board of the Australia Council are...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
The Western Australian state government has cut funding to Westerly, the Perth-based literary magazine that launched the careers of writers including Tim Winton, Robert Drewe and Elizabeth Jolley.The journal has...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Jenny Katauskas, managing librarian of the Book Bunker at Westmead Children's Hospital in New South Wales, was awarded the 2007 Dromkeen Librarian's Award at the homestead's annual Literary Luncheon. Also...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
The inaugural Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival will be held at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent from 15 to 17 February 2008. Readers Feast has previously put on several Writers...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
The finalists in the 2008 Aurealis Awards, which recognise the best Australian works in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, have been announced. Aurealis Awards director Ron Serdiuk...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), which administered the inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day in bookshops around Australia on 5 September this year, has now raised almost a quarter of a million...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Bryce Courtenay's latest, The Persimmon Tree, was the fastest mover this week, also taking out the number-one spot for the second week in a row. Another fast mover was Guinness...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The UK's Booksellers Association (BA) has released a new report on digitisation, Embracing the Digital Age, which is co-authored by Francis Bennett, founder of BookData, and Michael Holdsworth, the chair...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Chris Masters' Jonestown (Allen & Unwin) has won the 2007 Walkley award for a nonfiction book.The annual awards for excellence in journalism were presented in Sydney last week. For the...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a statement defending its members against recent claims from the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) that nascent e-book download services such as the newly...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The newly elected Labor government has announced two new literary prizes worth $100,000 each. From 2008 the Prime Minister's Literary Prize will be awarded for a work of fiction and...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Peter Donoughue has announced that he will be retiring as MD of John Wiley & Sons Australia in August 2008. As part of the succession plan, Wiley's current information services...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Next week's issue of WBN, Wednesday 12 December, will be our last for the year. We will be hitting the phones at the end of this week in order to...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Film deal for QuercusPerseus named PW's publisher of the yearUS court voids landmark electronic rights caseAdobe, Yahoo...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. CompanyLast day of businessFirst day of businessAllen & Unwin21/12/072/1/08Alliance Distribution ServicesClosed 24/12/07 and public holidays Australian Book GroupClosed...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Cullen interviewed on RN Book ShowAs the book trade prepares to farewell Barbara Cullen, who will step down as ABA CEO today, she has been interviewed on ABC Radio National's Book Show,...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku has won the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition for her story ‘Sozi's Box'.The story, which was chosen as the best story from the Africa region of...

Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The Australian Publishers Association and the Literature Board of the Australia Council are calling for applicants to attend the fifth biennial Residential Editorial Program (REP) in late May 2008. ‘Nurturing a...

Monday, 3 December 2007
Bookseller, library and publisher websites can now host the latest book news, and book professionals can keep abreast of breaking news at any time, following the launch of the Bookseller+Publisher...

Sunday, 2 December 2007
Bookseller, library and publisher websites can now host Weekly Book Newsletter news headlines on their own web pages following the launch this week of the Bookseller+Publisher Online RSS feed.The XML-based...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Patricia Genat has joined South Australian library supply business ALS Library Services as managing director. She has also taken an equity position in the business.Genat left her position as managing director...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
‘Frankly, we're stunned that Dr Fisher has reacted in this way to a development that would see Australian books reach new global markets'--Dymocks CEO Don Grover responding to the Australian...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: Fodor's goes mobileHC UK CEO talks up digital futureBorders' third-quarter figures upAll-female shortlist for Costa prizePiracy 'could drive...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Melbourne Writers Festival director Rosemary Cameron has confirmed that the 2007 festival this year earned the highest box-office sales on record. Box office sales increased by 44% on 2006, while...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
The combined children's bookshop, education centre and gallery space Books Illustrated is moving from the Gasworks Arts Park in Melbourne's Albert Park where it has been housed for the past...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
As the nation adjusts to the end of 11 years of Liberal governance, the publishing industry will be among many waiting as the dust settles to see what the change...