Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced two programs of interest to the publishing industry to run as part of the 2009 festival: the Digital Publishing Program, and the Melbourne Visiting International...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Random House is offering consumers a free ebook of the Wil Anderson title Survival of the Dumbest, in what marketing manager Brett Osmond says is the publisher's ‘first Australian consumer ebook...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The NZ Digital Publishing Forum held a two-day conference in Auckland from 24 to 25 June, entitled ‘The Future of the Book'. The conference included a number of overseas guest...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Stephenie, Stephanie, whichever way you spell it, the name is at the top of the charts this week--Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse is at number one in the Bestsellers (no surprises there) and Stephanie Plum...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Common Readers and Cultural Critics, conference, Canberra, 8-11...

Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Authors on tour in July and August: JulyRupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy) Scott Frost, Hachette (Don't Look Back)Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins (Blind Eye)Emma Tom, HarperCollins (Attack of the 50ft...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
‘Whether it is the laws that protected authors and restricted the price or distribution of texts, traditional aesthetic categories and literary genres--the very structures used by libraries to order books,...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
WBN understands the Tower Books warehouse, based in Sydney, is due to close this month, with stock to move to the Bookwise warehouse in South Australia.Both Tower Books and Bookwise are...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The Productivity's Commission's final report on Australia's book parallel importation laws was delivered to recently appointed assistant treasurer Nick Sherry yesterday. A Commission spokesperson told WBN the report would be...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World section in the past week:2009 Bulwer-Lytton winner announcedPearson invests US$30 million in IndiaWikipedia plagiarism accustations dog Chris Anderson's Free US audiobook...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Readings Books, Music and Film has announced the creation of The Readings Foundation, established by Readings managing director Mark Rubbo to support ‘Victorian individuals and organisations that wish to further...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
The shortlist for the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2009 has been announced. Over 200 entries were received for this year's awards. The full shortlist for all 18 categories is available from...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
FictionText Publishing has acquired Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder, to be published in November. Australian Jeremy Chambers' first book, The Vintage and the Gleaning, to publish mid-2010;...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
It's great to see a book from a relatively small publisher get top spot in the charts. IAD Press' Living Alongside the Animals Anangu Way is this week's ‘highest new...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Kids and YA Literature Festival, NSW Writers' Centre, 4-5 JulyReed Gift Fairs - Brisbane, 4-7...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
H B Gilmour, veteran publishing professional and bestselling author, has died, aged 69. She wrote The Trade, So Long, Daddy and The Muppets Take Manhattan, among others.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
New Zealand retailer The Warehouse goes online The Warehouse is offering online shopping within New Zealand, starting with books, DVDs, CDs, game software and gift cards. Chief executive Ian Morrice...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Kelly Brough as its new global online director. Taking over the position from Andy Conroy, who was seconded from the BBC in the...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Central Book Services has announced it has been contracted by Gardners Books, a UK distributor, to supply Australian titles. The agreement will cover only those Australian titles that are not...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet (Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin, ABC Books) and Tuart Dwellers (Jan Ramage, illus. Ellen Hickman, WA Dept of...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Siobhan Dowd has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Carnegie medal for children's literature; and Catherine Rayner the recipient of the Greenaway medal for children's book illustration. Dowd's...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Random House has created free digital material that booksellers can use in email and website campaigns, beginning with the countdown to Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. The material includes ready-made...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
New Zealand author Charlotte Grimshaw is among the authors shortlisted for the 2009 Cork City Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, for her collection Singularity (Vintage). The 35,000 euro award (A$61,047),...

Thursday, 25 June 2009
WBN subscribers, please note that the email address you receive your WBN from has now changed.The new email address is wbn@emailthorpe.com.au. Please add this address to your email program's 'whitelist' &/or...

Wednesday, 24 June 2009
‘There was a small-group accelerated learning event at the station for the word was networked ... or something'--Don Watson translates the first line of Banjo Patterson's ‘The Man From Snowy...

Wednesday, 24 June 2009
While the Productivity Commission is in the final stages of preparing its report on Australia's parallel importation laws, due to be delivered to government on 30 June, the battle of the press...