Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The books shortlisted for this year's CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced yesterday at a ceremony hosted by the Governor of Victoria David de Kretser at Government House...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) has announced it will offset all carbon emissions from this year's festival, as well as introducing a ‘range of initiatives to reduce [its] environmental impact.'...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The six titles shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction were announced in London yesterday. The shortlisted titles are: Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
In the forthcoming episode of the ABC's ‘First Tuesday Book Club', to be screened on 1 May, the following feature titles will be announced: The Raw Shark Texts (Steven Hall, Text) and Alice's...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The 2007 London Book Fair (LBF) is currently underway.Early reports suggest that the new venue at Earls Court has been received much more warmly than last year's controversial Docklands site.Along...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The winners of the annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday at a luncheon at Columbia University. Books honoured in the Letters, Drama and Music section were:Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Picador)...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Thorpe-Bowker has launched another supplement to Bookseller+Publisher magazine with the first issue of Innovation+Technology (‘I+T'), which is being distributed with the April/May issue of Bookseller+Publisher. ‘There is scarcely a part...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The Australian arm of John Wiley & Sons celebrated its parent company's 200th birthday at a special celebratory dinner last night at Brisbane's Marriott Hotel. The dinner, for 135 guests, was attended...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
UK-based book wholesaler Gardners has announced that it will expand its services to include a ‘digital warehouse'.The digital warehouse will allow publishers to link their existing digital files, e-books, audio...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Veteran British publisher and bookseller John Calder has announced that he has chosen Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini of Alma Books to take over his businesses.Calder said: ‘I am over...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The 2007 Angus & Robertson Top 100 Book List was released on Tuesday with the ‘Harry Potter' series taking out the top spot, followed by The Da Vinci Code and...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) Project has announced that it has passed a ‘major milestone' following a recent meeting in London.ACAP is a joint initiative by book and newspaper...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has supported a case filed against China at the World Trade Organisation by the United States, which includes allegations of ‘inadequate protection' against piracy and...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
A potential takeover bid for Funtastic has been called off.Talks between Funtastic's major shareholder, childcare provider ABC Learning, and ‘an unnamed third party' have been terminated, leading to the end...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a new Publishers' Career Development Fund that will offer $50,000 in grants each year. The fund will offer publishers grants for staff career development...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Second Life, the ‘virtual world' that is currently one of the most popular sites on the internet, has announced the inaugural Second Life Book Fair (SLBF). The fair runs from...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Award will be announced tomorrow, Thursday 19 April. WBN will send subscribers a special bulletin as soon as the shortlist is released.

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Wednesday 25 April, next week's WBN will be sent on Thursday 26 April. However, the deadline for advertising and editorial submissions will...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The kids are reclaiming the charts this week, with the sixth Specky Magee title (released to coincide with the kick-off of the 2007 footy season) breaking into the adult-fiction-heavy top...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:the London Book Fair, which finishes up on 18 Aprilthe Abu Dhabi Book Fair Information Session at the...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, a hero of the 1970s counter-culture, best known for his anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage), has died of brain injuries after a fall in his Manhattan...

Thursday, 12 April 2007
As announced in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, Peter Carey is among the 15 authors on the judges' list of contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize. The...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK figures show chains sufferingBloomsbury posts a small lossRecord advance for Agassi memoirHugo Awards shortlistGoogle 'engages' with...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Brumby Books and Music has signed a ‘conditional contract' to purchase fellow distributor Bookwise International. Under the deal--reportedly worth over $450,000--Bookwise will remain in Adelaide with all of its current staff,...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
The Australia Council is now calling for appointments with the 12 guests of this year's Visiting International Publisher (VIP) Program.Meetings will take place at 30-minute intervals on Thursday 31 May...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Marcus Zusak has picked up another award in the US: the membership of the American Booksellers Association has voted The Book Thief (Picador) its favourite book of the past year...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Australian resident J M Coetzee is one of eight authors in the running for this year's Dublin IMPAC Award, one of the world's most valuable literary awards.The shortlisted titles are:Arthur...