Tuesday, 24 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week, Thomas Nelson announces it will be dropping all its imprints; Bertelsmann launches a new digital investment fund; Lonely Planet appoints...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
The Australian Readers' Challenge (ARC) Certificate Day ceremony was held at Customs House in Sydney on Monday, with NSW governor Marie Bahsir presiding and representatives from many publishing houses in...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
WBN is saddened to report that John Nieuwenhuizen, a former editor of WBN and Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, died suddenly last Friday.After working for the ABA, John came to...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
As expected, Jonestown (A&U), Chris Masters' unauthorised biography of Sydney radio personality Alan Jones, received much media in the lead-up to its release on Monday, with extracts in newspapers over...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Educational publisher Eleanor Curtain Publishing received a commendation award as part of this year's Governor of Victoria Export Awards. Company founder Eleanor Curtain was presented with the commendation award at...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
After establishing the Angus & Robertson Manly franchise territory 14 years ago, Sydney bookseller Sally Chilvers has decided it's time to move on. ‘I set out to build a bookshop...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Australia's Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that it is adopting ‘a range of strategies to accelerate payments to members in 2006/2007.' The initiatives are designed to enable CAL to...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
It's out with the old and in with the new. There are four new entries in this week's top 10 bestsellers. True crime makes a splash with Joanne Lee's No...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Pan Macmillan has announced a recall of Australian Jihad, a nonfiction account of the Bali bombings and subsequent investigations of Jemiah Islamiah, written by Walkley award-winning journalist Martin Chulov. The...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Science, technical and medical (STM) publishing group Springer has made an approach to buy Informa, the parent company of publisher Taylor & Francis.While the bid is being described by Informa...

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Popular British travel writer Eric Newby, whose books include A Short Walk in Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines (both Pan Macmillan), has died of natural causes...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The line up of writers attending the 2007 Writers at Como festival has been announced. Conn Iggulden, the British co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys (HarperCollins) will be a...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
While James Patterson's Cross and Michael Connelly's Echo Park battle it out for the top spot, Clive Cussler sneaks into tenth place with the latest novel in the ‘Oregan Files'....

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week, Google announces another addition to its book search program, the Quill awards are announced in the US and the first...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
Murdoch Books has announced a new structure for its UK operations, following the resignation of its first UK managing director Tim Whale, who had held the position for only 10...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The winner's of this year's Davitt Awards, presented by the Sisters in Crime organisation and named after Australian mystery writer Ellen Davitt, were announced on 13 October in Melbourne. The...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The Brisbane and Sydney writers' festivals were named state winners in this year's NAB volunteer awards, which recognise organisations that ‘create a positive and inclusive environment for volunteers.' ‘The NAB...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The winners of this year's LIANZA (Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) awards were announced on 9 October as part of the LIANZA conference held in Wellington. The winners...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has ‘vehemently condemned' the recent killing in Moscow of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.‘The murder of Anna Politkovskaya is not only a tragedy and an attack...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced that the second IPA Publishers’ Freedom Prize will be presented at the 2007 Cape Town Book Fair. ‘In numerous countries around the world...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The government has made available the draft text of proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, ahead of the Copyright Amendment Bill which is due to be introduced into Parliament sometime...

Monday, 16 October 2006
Booksellers, publishers and authors have been formally invited to nominate titles for consideration in the 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide by the campaign's organisers. ‘Books Alive is keen to see...

Thursday, 12 October 2006
Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was announced as the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature last week.The judges said of Pamuk--who was raised in Istanbul but currently lives in...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton) by Indian-born writer Kiran Desai has won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, announced in the UK this morning. Desai, whose mother Anita Desai has...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop's proposal to set up a national school curriculum board is a welcome one for many Australian educational publishers. ‘As an educational publisher, it's a...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
A&R Whitcoulls Group (ARW Group), which operates the Angus & Robertson bookselling chain in Australia and Whitcoulls in New Zealand, has announced a partnership with the newsagency chain Supanews, which...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Michelle Laforest, managing director of Harlequin Mills & Boon in Australia, has told WBN that the workforce cuts recently announced by Canadian-based parent company Torstar Corporation would not affect Australian...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
It's been a big week in the world of crime fiction with new installments in the Alex Cross and Harry Bosch sagas from James Patterson and Michael Connelly. Patterson's Cross...