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...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
WBN subscribers, please note that the email address you receive your WBN from will change in coming weeks.The new email address will be wbn@emailthorpe.com.au. Please add this address to your email...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Christos Tsiolkas was announced on Monday night as the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2009 Booksellers' Choice Award for his multiple prize-winning novel The Slap (A&U). Tsiolkas, whose book signing...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Thursday night, Tim Winton has been announced as the 2009 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award ($42,000), with Breath (Penguin), making...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2009/10 Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their seventh year, the Fellowships allow writers, artists,...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
A lost masterpiece rescued and rediscovered … be one of the first to see restored Australian classic Wake in Fright. As a special offer for WBN subscribers, we are offering...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Phillip Gwynne's novel The Build Up is to become a 13-part drama series, filmed in the Northern Territory by TMG Media for SBS Television. The series will be called Dusty,...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Tools of Change for Publishing meets Frankfurt OUP reference launches on iPhoneNew management structure at Random House...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
What is it about people these days and their obsession with vampires? As well as Stephenie Meyer claiming her usual top positions in the Bestseller charts this week, Claudia Gray’s Stargazer...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Copyright Council--2009 Training program, 23-26 June, SydneyThe Future of the Book conference, 24-25 June,...

Monday, 22 June 2009
The 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were presented last night, Tuesday 23 June, at a gala event at Sydney's Sofitel, hosted by Tara Moss. The 20 awards honour and recognise...

Monday, 22 June 2009
The winners of the 2009 Galley Club Awards have been announced.The awards, in their 33rd year, celebrate excellence in book and magazine production. The ceremony was held on Friday 19...

Monday, 22 June 2009
Stuart Beattie, co-writer of the epic Australia, will make his directorial debut with John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began, first published by Pan in 1994 and aimed at young adults.Beattie...

Monday, 22 June 2009
Independent Australian publisher Hardie Grant Books has announced the launch of a new company in London.Jane Aspden, former managing director of Mitchell Beazley, will take on the founding MD role,...