Sunday, 14 October 2007
As this year's Frankfurt Book Fair wrapped up last Sunday, Australian attendees and the fair's organisers expressed strong satisfaction with how it has gone.'I walked around Hall 8 [the English-language hall] yesterday...

Thursday, 11 October 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were announced last week in Sweden. This year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature is British writer Doris Lessing, at 87 the oldest person to...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Among stores added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Lawyers want biggest share of a million little refundsThomas new head of MacmillanBBC defends Lonely Planet dealWhitcoulls' purchase...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
'This type of deal is exactly what is needed in today’s market.'--Collins Booksellers CEO Peter Lothian announcing the acquisition of Book City.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
This year's Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest booktrade event, is now underway. Tuesday, the day before the fair's official opening, saw the 21st International Rights Directors Meeting and the 29th International Supply Chain Specialists...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowship winners were announced by the NSW Minister for the Arts, Frank Sartor, in Sydney last night.The annual awards were instituted in 1997...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair 10 - 14 OctoberCAL's Publishers' Career Development grants deadline 12 OctoberRedact Workshop...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Guinness World Records 2008 remains atop the charts for two weeks in a row: it seems people just can't get enough of those jaw-dropping feats. In second position, it looks...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced later this week, and while there isn't a formal shortlist Australian poet Les Murray is widely tipped as...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Elliott Perlman, Tim Winton and Nikki Gemmell have been included on a list of 'the 50 most important writers in the world' compiled by the editors of the French magazine...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has announced the shortlisted titles in its new teenage choice book awards ‘The Inkys'. The Arrival (Shaun Tan, Lothian);...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Empty North: the Japanese Presence and Australians' Reactions 1860s to 1942 (Pam Oliver, Charles Darwin University Press) has been named the winner of the 2007 Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The second New Zealand Book Month, which ran this year from 3 to 30 September, has drawn strong interest from New Zealand readers. The Six Pack Two, an anthology of...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Following its announcement earlier this year that ABC Enterprises would cease audio book production, the ABC's commercial arm has announced a partnership with Vision Australia which promises continued production of...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
‘These guys know what they're doing, they've made it successful so we just want to give them more power to make it bigger and better.'--BBC Worldwide international director Ian Watson,...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest rights fair, officially starts next week on 10 October. This year's Guest of Honour is the Catalan Culture.Seventy Australian and 25 New...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
In news from our Around the World blog this week:Amazon launches digital music storeMacmillan CEO leaves for Bloomsbury Perseus bid for PGW name approvedGoogle Book Search reloadedJohn Grisham and other authors...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
It's probably neither an outstanding nor a wacky record, but the latest 'Guinness Book' - Guinness World Records 2008 has garnered top spot this week in the charts. What could...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Watermark Literary Muster, Camden Haven, NSW 2 - 6 OctoberAustralian School Library Association Biennial Conference,...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Martin Hughes, a former Lonely Planet travel writer and former editor of The Big Issue, together with Graeme Wise, who set up The Big Issue in Australia, have launched a...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Australian authors Sonya Hartnett and John Marsden and New Zealand writer Joy Cowley have been nominated for the 2008 Astrid Lindgren memorial Award. The world's largest prize for children's and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Australian author Garth Nix has secured a seven-figure deal with HarperCollins in the US for North American rights to three new titles--including a prequel and sequel to his ‘Old Kingdom'...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Holtzbrinck, the parent of publisher Pan Macmillan, has reported a 7.5% increase in total revenue in 2006 to €2.24 billion (A$3.4 billion). The company, which has interests in newspapers and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
ABC Commercial hostsed its annual ABC Retail Conference in Sydney from 24 to 26 September. The three-day conference was attended by 160 delegates, including ABC Shop and Centre managers and...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Following its acquisition of 75% of Melbourne-based travel publisher Lonely Planet (reported in a WBN special bulletin on Monday), BBC Worldwide has announced its intention to take the publisher's 500-plus guidebooks...

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
The inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day, held around the country on Wednesday 5 September, has raised more than $120,000, with some donations yet to be received. David Gaunt, chair of the Indigenous...

Monday, 1 October 2007
Buyer wanted for Judith Wright’s homeThe chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Canberra is looking for a buyer for poet Judith Wright’s bushland home. The Australian National...