Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Senator Ted Kennedy has died, aged 77. As well as his forthcoming memoir True Compass, Kennedy wrote various other titles including Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the...

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Author and editor Fred Brenchley has died, aged 67. One of his best known books was Stoker's Submarine.

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Sheila Lukins, co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook has died, aged 66.

Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Authors on tour from September to November: September Jeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution) Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print) Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage)...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) are continuing their lobbying efforts in Canberra ahead of an expected Cabinet decision on the Productivity Commission's recommendations within coming...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) added to its line-up a special debate on the Productivity Commission report and on the pros...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Books Alive 2009 starts today, 26 August, and runs to 30 September. A free guide, 50 Books You Can't Put Down, has been distributed to booksellers nationwide. Cheryl Akle, Books...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Readings' 40th anniversary was celebrated on Monday night at Experimedia in the State Library of Victoria. Alongside the celebrations, Readings has launched an anthology--Readings and Writings: 40 Years in Books--a collection of...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Bologna dates changeSony teams with US indies; announces Epub support with new wireless E-readerGoogle settlement: privacy...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is demanding action from the NZ government on the Google Book Settlement as the 4 September deadline for rightsholders to ‘opt...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
‘It's a nonsense to use the music industry as a shining example of what happens if you introduce parallel imports. Oh, and a warning if you think subsidies will help:...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Earth, published by Millenium House, has been named the world's most detailed atlas, winning both the Best Book Based Award and the Best Overall Map Product (the Graham Stanton Award),...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The winners of the 9th annual Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards have been announced. The Davitt Awards are for the best crime novels and true crime books by Australian women,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Melbourne bookseller Leanne Hall has won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, with her debut novel This is Shyness, announced on Sunday at the Melbourne Writers...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Steven Amsterdam was announced as the overall winner of the 36th Age Book of the Year Award at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday night, for Things...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The winners of this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards have been announced. The winning and honour books are: Book of the Year: Older Readers Tales from Outer...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The ‘red edged’ version of the ever-popular Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer has been released, and that, it seems, is enough reason to propel it to the top of both...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Rob McMenemy, senior vice president of Egmont UK, USA and Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) in Australia, and member of the HGE board, has been appointed as the new regional manager...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: CBCA Book Week, 22-28 AugustLu Rees Archives of Australian Children's Literature exhibition, Canberra, 26-27 AugustEdinburgh...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
A plethora of Irvine Welsh's old tales--from magazines, articles, out-of-print anthologies and the like--have been brought together to make a new book of old stories, entitled Reheated Cabbage. All manner...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The longlist for the third annual Inky Awards has been announced by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature, via its youth reading website insideadog.com.au. The Inkys are Australia's...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Authors on tour from August to November: August Gareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who’s Right About Climate Change?) Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing (The Horse Boy) Eric Garcia,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The shortlist for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. Last year's Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript winner, Amy Barker, launched her debut novel Omega Park (UQP) at the shortlist...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Random House New Zealand receive environmental accreditationRandom House New Zealand has received Gold-level accreditation from Enviromark, an environmental accreditation scheme. The Random House NZ office features a full recycling system,...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
In rights news this week: NonfictionBlack Inc. has sold Chinese translation rights to John Hirst's The Shortest History of Europe, dramatic. Children's Scholastic has sold Japanese rights to Let's Play...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Peter Dart, information services director at Pearson, is leaving the business to pursue other interests. Dart, who has been with the business for 25 years, was Pearson's delegate on the...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
‘When I tell publishers "you must focus, you must specialize in niches so that you own vertical audiences", the inevitable question is: "what about fiction?" [...] The first answer I...

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Readers Digest files for bankruptcy in the USSimultaneous US ebook release for Dan Brown Pirate...