Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Rubin and Applebaum lose roles in Random US restructuringfiction in translationthe Nobel lecturepublisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The results of WBN's pre-Christmas survey of booksellers will be published in a WBN special bulletin tomorrow. If your store has not yet participated either by phone or online, you...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The global financial crisis has begun to make its influence felt on the publishing world, as many large international publishers, particularly those with substantial operations in the US, announce restructures...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has announced that long-standing staff member George Ciofuli will retire at the end of the year. Ciofuli, who has spent more than 25 years in publishing,...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Emma Neale is the winner of the inaugural Janet Frame Memorial Award. The biennial award, worth NZ$3000 (A$2470), is for ‘an author of literary or imaginative fiction, or poetry' and...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The Australian Children's Literature Alliance (ACLA) was established on 19 November. The group consists of representatives from the Australian Booksellers Association, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors, Children's Book...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
A new Dymocks store will be opening right in time for Christmas on 15 December in Albany, Western Australia. The new franchise owners, Albany locals Deborah and Richard Congdon told...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Aurealis Awards has been announced. It consists of 56 Australian writers of speculative fiction, including science-fiction, fantasy and horror, shortlisted in 13 categories. Among the...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The 23rd annual Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP) is to be announced at the Auckland Writers' and Readers' Festival (AWRF), New Zealand, in May 2009, coinciding with the festival's 10th anniversary....

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Random House Australia (RHA) has announced the promotion of Nikki Christer to the role of publishing director, adult publishing. ‘I am delighted to promote Nikki into this role and onto...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Did he really mean to say that? John Coote at the opening of Borders Doncaster, quoted in Inside Retailing: ‘We haven't had a great book this year so you've really...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Leading Edge Books members who attended the three information sessions hosted by the buying group in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, have come to a ‘unanimous position' on the current parallel...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
In 2009 the Australian Society or Authors (ASA) will be responsible for administering the Australia Council's support for emerging writers under a new partnership. The support program, to be known...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has raised $238,000 to date for 2008, with further pledges expected to be received in coming weeks. ‘The recent ABC Sydney Silent Auction Fundraiser together...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
The University of Melbourne Book Industry study, being undertaken in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association and Thorpe-Bowker, has found more than half of respondents nominate territorial copyright as their...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Productivity Commission chair Gary Banks has responded to industry concerns about the appointment of commissioner Louise Sylvan to the commission's study of parallel importation laws, declaring Sylvan ‘will remain attached...

Tuesday, 9 December 2008
New Zealand's booksellers association, society of authors and copyright agency have formed a new digital publishing initiative, the Digital Publishing Forum. Formed last week, the forum is a partnership between...

Monday, 8 December 2008
No surprises in the charts this week as Christmas book-buying gets underway with gusto. Bryce Courtenay's Fishing for Stars is number one in the Bestsellers, Patricia Cornwell's sleuth Scarpetta is...

Monday, 8 December 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Esther and Jerry Hicks tour, 7-14 DecemberClosing date for entries for Miles Franklin Literary Award,...

Monday, 8 December 2008
In addition to last week's Christmas closing list the following organisations have advised us of their closing dates: Book and Music Market (Gold Coast) Last day: 23/12/08 First day: 5/1/09 Era...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Next week's WBN (Wednesday 10 December) will be the last for 2008. The first WBN for 2009 will be published on Wednesday 7 January.In the interim period WBN will continue...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
ILP auction raises $8000 The recent auction broadcast on 702 ABC Sydney raised $8000 for the Indigenous Literacy Project. The winning bidder will receive a large set of signed and...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report undertaken for the Australian Copyright Council has found that Australia's copyright industries generated $97.7 billion in economic activity in 2007. The report, which was released by the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
A total of $250,000 has been dedicated to literature projects in the Victorian Government's latest round of arts grants. This includes $50,000 to longstanding literary journal Overland; $30,000 to the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
‘Referring this subject to the Productivity Commission is like asking duck-hunters what they'd like to shoot'--Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom responding to the Productivity Commission's study of book importation laws on...

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Don Watson's American Journeys (Knopf) has been awarded the 2008 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book. The annual awards for excellence in journalism were presented in Melbourne last week. As...