Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday on Tuesday 6 November, next week's WBN will be published on Thursday 8 November. Please ensure all material for next week's WBN is...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Food and sport ... much of the Australian population can resonate with either one. This is demonstrated in the bestseller charts this week with Geelong: The Greatest Team of All...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • Australian Copyright Council training sessions, Brisbane 5 November • 2007 Davitt Awards presentation Melbourne...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Author Susanne Gervay has been awarded the Lady Cutler Award for 2007 by the NSW branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The award judges said that Gervay...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Book distribution business Gary Allen Pty Ltd has been sold to Tower Books for an undisclosed sum.Tower Books' director Michael Rakusin said that there is a logical fit between the...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
A number of big-name expat Australian authors will be returning home for next year's Adelaide Writers' Week, which has just announced its author line-up. Pater Carey, whose new novel His...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australia Council have welcomed developments in Western Australia and New South Wales intended to increase the study of Australian literature in schools....

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
'Dumbledore is gay [...] I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy'--J K Rowling outs one of her Harry Potter characters to the delight...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
How one grumpy Kiwi cost Amazon a patentAmazon.com is on the brink of losing one of its most coveted patents, all due to the efforts of one disgruntled customer from...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Horror novelist denies eating girlfriendNew MD for PNBooker prompts debate on reviewersEnright reprint after Booker winBorders UK reduces...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
James Patterson's Double Cross has succeeded in making it to the top of the bestseller list two weeks in a row. To prove crime afficionados rule the roost, the highest...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • Walkley Non Fiction Book Award Finalist long list Announcement, Sydney 24 October • Australian...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The winners of this year's Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards were announced last week in Adelaide as part of the annual Tasting Australia festival.Among the winners of ‘gold...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced it will increase the number of communities to receive literacy materials due to a higher than expected fundraising total from Indigenous Literacy Day...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for this year's Westfied/Waverly Library Award for Literature has been announced. The shortlisted works are:Mr Stuart's Track: The Forgotton Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer (John...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The children's television series based on Animalia (Graeme Base, Puffin) will air on Channel 10 on Sunday November 11 at midday. Described by producer Ewan Burnett as 'the most ambitious...

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
'Can you imagine the scene? [I'm with] my Swedish publisher at a very, very formal dinner ... an official, he said, "I've come to tell you you will never win...

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:EU clears Egmont/Bonnier dealOliveri resigns from Wiley/BlackwellGerman president attacked at book awardUK postal strike fails to dent...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Random House Australia has announced the appointment of former UQP publisher Leonie Tyle as publisher of an as yet unnamed new children's imprint. Linsay Knight, head of children's books at...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The Gathering by Irish author Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, beating New Zealand hope Lloyd Jones whose Mister Pip (Text) was the shortlist favourite....

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The Federal Government has announced that the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme will receive ‘ongoing funding'.The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has welcomed the move, saying it will ensure that...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Walker Books has reported strong results for 2006, with turnover up 11% to £53 million (A$116 million) and pre-tax profits up ‘slightly' on last year to £2.9 million (A$6.3 million)....

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Author, playwright and television writer Steve J Spears has died in Adelaide. Spears' books included Mr Edmund, Big Wish and Froggie. He was 56.