Monday, 10 August 2009
Arts Minister Lynne Kosky announced the shortlisted titles for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award on Monday 10 August. ‘This year's shortlist features both established and emerging writers across all...

Monday, 10 August 2009
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing were announced in Melbourne on Wednesday 5 August. The full list of winners is...

Monday, 10 August 2009
The Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF) ran last weekend, 7 to 9 August, with workshops from 3 August, at its new site at Belongil Fields, in Byron Bay. The relocated...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
In rights news this week: FictionHachette Australia reports that Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman has sold to Portugal and the 'Death Works' trilogy by Trent Jamieson has sold to the...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
'The ISBN standard united the industry from author royalty statement to store shelf and, while I emphasise the ISBN is far from dead, there are sufficient warning signs to suggest...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US ebook prices fall to under US$10'The perfect bookstore': but where are the books?Is Amazon reducing choice...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Australian authors Shaun Tan and Margo Lanagan have made the nomination list for the 2009 World Fantasy Award. Lanagan's Tender Morsels (A&U) is nominated in the Best Novel category, and...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Author, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has been awarded the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize.Pilger was awarded the prize for ‘enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard', and for ‘commitment...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Thursday, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) will establish a working group to 'consider the matters raised in the Productivity Commission's report' on...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Members of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) and Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) have joined in protest against the Productivity Commission's recommendation to remove parallel import restrictions (PIRs). Shane...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper is top of the Fastest Mover chart this week--which may have something to do with the recent release of the film starring Cameron Diaz.  Tricky People:...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'Literary Subscriptions' at the State Library of Victoria, 6 AugustWrite Around the Murray Festival, Albury,...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
American author, editor and translator Simon Karlinsky has died, aged 84.

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, WBN is giving away three DVD box sets, each valued at $70, containing all eight original Asterix animated films. Asterix books have been a massive hit...

Tuesday, 4 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, 4 August 2009
Victory Books is a new commercial imprint being launched in September by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP). Victory Books is ‘proudly commercial', according to MUP CEO and publisher-in-chief Louise Adler, and will publish...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Booksellers New Zealand is preparing draft changes to its constitution, which would enable a restructure of membership to include retailers only. The changes were proposed at the Booksellers NZ AGM,...

Tuesday, 4 August 2009
The program for the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 9 to 13 September, has been announced. The theme of this year's festival is ‘The Power of the Word',...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
‘One bookseller in Australia took the children's book award sticker off The Red Tree as he felt he could sell more that way, and sold an extra 30-40 copies a...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Mary Sangster of the Children's Bookshop, Christchurch; Jerome Gauder of Whitcoulls' and Emma Radcliffe of Craig Potton Publishing joined the board of Booksellers New Zealand at the New Zealand AGM, held...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Scholastic Corporation, the parent company of Scholastic Australia, has announced that operating income in its ‘international' segment, which includes Australia, has declined from US$42.3 million (A$51.3 million) in 2007/08 to...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
At the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) AGM held on Sunday as part of the Booksellers New Zealand national conference, Adrian Keane was appointed president, replacing Tony Fisk...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
This year's Booksellers New Zealand national conference closed with the presentation of this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards at a gala dinner at Auckland Museum on Monday night. The...

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
American author E Lynn Harris has died, aged 54. His books included Invisible Life, A Love of My Own, and What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Booksurge and Amazon to sell 400,000 titles scanned by GoogleUK Kindle launch 'this Autumn' (northern hemisphere)POD and...