Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Poet Robert Adamson has won his second Grace Leven Prize for The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions). The award, Australia's oldest annual poetry prize, is worth only $200--funded by the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Publisher and creator of Aduki magazine Emily Clark has announced the launch of Aduki Independent Press, which will publish a range of nonfiction books and essays in addition to the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, Random House) has won the fiction section of this year's Kiriyama Prize with Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ......

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for the CAN$100,000 (A$101,000) Griffin Poetry Prize were announced yesterday. Finalists in the Canadian shortlist were: Airstream Land Yacht (Ken Babstock, House of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Australian Publishers Association held its annual general meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday last week at the Camberwell offices of Penguin Books Australia.In her address, president Juliet Rogers of Murdoch Books...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Millennium House writes: ‘It is with the saddest of hearts that Gordon Cheers advises that Margaret Olds, after having spent many weeks in hospital, has passed away after a prolonged...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Margrete Lamond, publisher at Little Hare Books, writes: ‘It is with great sadness that Little Hare Books joins John Winch's family, the children's book world and the wider artist community...

Monday, 2 April 2007
The 17th Abu Dhabi Book Fair is in full swing this week, with over 400 exhibitors from 46 countries displaying their wares in a vast, brand-new exhibition hall.This fair marks...

Sunday, 1 April 2007
Further to the majority shareholding it took in April 2004 (see WBN 21 April 2004), Bonnier Publishing UK (previously known as Autumn Publishing) has completed its acquisition of Melbourne mass market publisher...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pearson shares rise again on renewed takeover speculationName-change for Warner Books USFor more details, click here.

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
MUP has announced a recall of The Education of a Young Liberal by John Hyde Page. The recall follows the recent ruling by a judge in the civil division of the...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Earnings paid to the family of convicted drug courier Schapelle Corby from the sale of her autobiography My Story (Pan Macmillan) have been frozen by a Queensland court. The Director...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Proposals for a new privacy law by the NSW Law Reform Commission could disrupt Australia's now uniform defamation laws. The proposals, due to be made public ‘within weeks' according to...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Random House has reported a 6.5% increase in revenue to €1.9 billion (A$2.95 billion) for 2006. In what CEO Peter Olson described as ‘a sluggish international marketplace,' Random House has...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
This year's Perth Writers' Week, part of the Perth International Arts Festival, offered ‘a full week of insightful conversation and the opportunity to connect with favourite authors and discover new...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
The ninth annual Leading Edge Books conference took place from 16 to 19 March at the Novotel Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour. ‘The conference has become known as a relaxed...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Jacob Rosenberg has been awarded the National Biography Award for his memoir East of Time (Brandl & Schlesinger). ‘This beautifully crafted book holds extraordinary humanity,' said the judges Morag Fraser,...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Frank Moorhouse has been named as the recipient of the biennial PEN Keneally Award. The award, named in honour of author Tom Keneally, recognises ‘an achievement in promoting freedom of...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Australian author Tom Keneally has been named as the recipient of the 2007 Peggy V Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The US prize, worth US$40,000 (A$48,000) is awarded annually by the...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
The line-up for this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program has been announced. Senior publishers, editors and agents visiting Australia and the Sydney Writers' Festvial as part of the program are: Catherine Argand...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has been established as a standard for ‘interoperably identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment.’ (Think of a DOI as being equivalent...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
The 16th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair will be held from 31 March-7 April. This year will mark the beginning of a collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair.Fair organisers have...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Dutch-based international professional publisher Wolters Kluwer, the parent company of CCH Australia, has announced the sale of its European educational division to UK investment fund Bridgepoint Capital for €774 million...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
RMIT University's Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing, the first tertiary publishing course accredited by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) in 2005, has been re-accredited for the period 2007-2009. Coordinated...

Tuesday, 27 March 2007
On TV, the popular reality show ‘The Biggest Loser' has become one of Channel 10's biggest winners. In bookstores, it's a similar story for Hardie Grant. The Biggest Loser--a companion...