Tuesday, 23 September 2008
The English Teacher's Association (ETA) of NSW has opposed the move to strengthen the teaching of Australian literature in schools.The ETA objects to ‘the selective nomination of some types of text...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls (ARW) has launched the first retail ‘Espresso Book Machine' (EBM) in Australia at its Melbourne Bourke Street store. The machine, which prints a book in seven...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Susannah McFarlane has confirmed that she has ‘reluctantly sold her 25% shareholding in Hardie Grant Egmont', the children's publishing company she ran and built since its inception in 2002. McFarlane...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
ReadeR's Books in Westpoint Shopping centre, Blacktown, is closing after one year of business due to high rental rates. Howard and Preetha Joseph told WBN that the business is not...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Walker Books Australia celebrated 15 years of publishing for children last Tuesday, 16 September with a party at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Attending the party were Walker Books staff and supporters, including...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
This year's Brisbane Writers' Festival was an ?unparalleled success', festival director Michael Campbell told WBN. Initial figures indicate more than 30,000 attended the festival, which is 20% up on last...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has joined forces with the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) and the Association for the Export of Canadian Books to co-host a half-day...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Bookseller+Publisher magazine and its supplements are now available as online ‘e-mags' at the Bookseller+Publisher Online website. To see the latest issue of the magazine online, click the ‘inside this issue' box...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
A novel set in the Cold War era in Australia is this year's Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner. Andrew Croome receives $50,000 as prize and advance for his winning manuscript Document...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Collins Booksellers has announced the appointment of Daniel Jordon as managing director. Jordon, who commenced in the book industry as a bookseller for Grahames Bookshops, has spent the past 10...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Murdoch Books has announced Allen & Unwin will be its sole agent in New Zealand from 1 January 2009. ‘As the illustrated list has changed and developed over the last...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
The Bestseller charts are heavy with a swathe of Stephenie Meyer books--Twilight coming in at number three--while both 4 Ingredients, 2 and the original frugal recipe book are in first...

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) information session – Adelaide, 30 SeptemberCopyright Agency Limited (CAL) information sessions...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Dominic Rowell to the newly created role of global marketing director. Rowell, who is originally from London, will be based in Melbourne and...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Bonnier acquires TemplarSony e-reader a big hit in UKBooker tokenism?Is this the end, my beautiful friends?How fat...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Dymocks holds second RadiothonThe Dymocks Literacy Foundation and Radio 2UE are hosting a second Radiothon on Wednesday 24 September to raise money for beneficiaries to buy books. ‘Charities, schools, hospitals...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
After 32 years in the business, having established their bookshop and music centre in 1977, John and Jill Novak of Mudgee Bookcase have decided to sell due to Jill Novak's...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The winners of this year's Whitley Awards have been announced. Presented by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, the awards are for ‘outstanding publications that deal with the promotion and...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The titles shortlisted for this year's teen book choice Inky Awards have been announced. Voting has opened to determine the winner in an Australian category (the Golden Inky) and international...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
As announced in a WBN special bulletin on Friday night, the winners of the inaugural Prime Minister's Awards have been announced. Ochre and Rust by Philip Jones (Wakefield Press) won...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Helen Garner has followed her win at the Victorian Premier's awards by taking out the prize for fiction ($25,000) for The Spare Room (Text) at the Queensland Premier's Literary awards,...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The shortlist for this year's Australian/Vogel Award has been announced. Author Matt Rubinstein, one of the judges of the $50,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under 35,...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The Brisbane Writers' Festival kicks off today in and around the State Library of Queensland and runs until September 21. Chris Abani gives a speech for the opening night tonight,...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Forget sex, food sells. Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham have done it again with the 'sequel' to the chartbuster 4 Ingredients entitled (somewhat uninspiringly) 4 Ingredients, 2 which graces the...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Brisbane Writers' Festival, 17-21 September74th World Congress International PEN, 17-22 September, ColumbiaEntries close for the...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
American novelist David Foster Wallace, best known for his book Infinite Jest, has died. He was 46.  

Tuesday, 9 September 2008
New publishing and rights blogA new international publishing and rights blog ‘Beyond Hall 8' is designed for readers in the international book trade. It is sponsored by the Frankfurt Book...

Tuesday, 9 September 2008
‘There was enormous excitement, energy and packed audiences talking about and celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day last week,' according to Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) manager Karen Williams. Indigenous Literacy Day was...