Tuesday, 8 January 2008
That stalwart, the Guinness Book of Records, has probably broken some records itself as it comes in a healthy second in the bestsellers this week. The top spot goes to...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • Closing date for the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and Josephine Ulrick Poetry prize, 14...

Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Author and creator of the Flashman series, George MacDonald Fraser, has died aged 82.

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Due to the overwhelming response of the trade to WBN's annual pre-Christmas survey, we will publish the results as a Special Bulletin tomorrow, Thursday 13 December.WBN will start ringing around...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
‘This is absolutely extraordinary, there has never been anything quite like it before'--Penguin NZ publishing director Geoff Walker on the success of Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip.

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week:Beaufoy to step down from New HollandPaddington Bear returns--as an illegal immigrantGoogle Books scans more than pagesManga sales up...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Having announced a major foray into electronic books last month, Dymocks will now be the first retailer in Australia to sell the iLiad e-book reader, with plans to have it on sale...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Perhaps it's an indication that Christmas is but a few sleeps away--budding chefs, penniless students and house-husbands among other foodies are snapping up 4 Ingredients, which takes the cake as...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Entries close for the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award, 14 DecemberAdvertising booking deadline for February 2008 issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, 14 DecemberEntries close for the ABR Poetry Prize, 15 DecemberTo...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
James Kemsley, who drew the Ginger Meggs cartoon strip since 1984, has died. His published books included a number of Ginger Meggs titles, the Cartoon Book I and II (Scholastic) and numerous...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
This is the final Weekly Book Newsletter for 2007. Thorpe-Bowker publisher Andrew Wilkins said: '2007 has been a great year for Bookseller+Publisher Online, with record readership, and 2008 will see...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
In addition to last week's Christmas closing list the following organisations have advised us of their closing dates: New HollandLast day of business: 1pm, 21/12/07First day of business: 2/1/08Intext Book...

Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Text/Penguin NZ) has topped New Zealand's bestseller charts for the year, with over 46,000 copies sold in NZ. Another 25,000 copies have sold in Australia...

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...