Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Lesley Beaumont of John Wiley & Sons Australia writes: ‘It is with regret that we heard late last week of the passing of one of Wiley's leading investment authors, Austin...

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
The Guardian reports that Julia Briggs, literary scholar and ‘champion of women’s writing and children's literature’, died on 16 August 2007.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007
The 2007 Books Alive campaign, which ran nationally through the month of August, was a ‘strong' one, according to Books Alive project director Brett Osmond. 'The response from the media...

Monday, 3 September 2007
OUP acquires Beazer PublishingOxford University Press (OUP) has acquired Beazer Publishing. Beazer, founded in 1994 by Margaret Beazer, specialises in texts for Legal Studies and commerce subjects in Years 11...

Monday, 3 September 2007
After 10 days of panels, workshops, conversations and book launches, the 2007 Melbourne Writers' Festival wrapped up on Sunday 2 September. According to organisers, the last year at the festival's...

Monday, 3 September 2007
Following hot on the heels of the Melbourne Writers' Festival, Brisbane will next week play host to an impressive line-up of international and local authors as part of the Brisbane...

Monday, 3 September 2007
The winners of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards--Australia's premier prizes for crime writing--were announced on 29 August by the Crime Writers' Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Age and...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
'For most Amazon customers, a special order is a terrible customer experience'--Amazon exec Kurt Beidler on the 'need it now' attitude of his 66 million customers.

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
No real surprises this week, with some familiar books continuing to make their presence known. Harry Potter garners top spot again and creeping up at number three is the Australian...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Pan Macmillan) has been announced as the winner of this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, Britain's oldest literary prize.Byron Rogers won the nonfiction...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Kurt Beidler, the senior manager of business development for Amazon.com, is in Australia this week for meetings with publishers in Sydney and Melbourne, hosted by the Australian Publishers Association (APA).Beidler...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
The Washington Post reports American poet and short story writer Grace Paley died on 23 August. Paley began writing prose in the 1950s and in the late 1990s formed Glad...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Booksellers New Zealand notes the passing of long-time Penguin NZ senior editor Philippa Gerrard, who died in Auckland last week.

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pearson's Harcourt acquisition cleared in UKUK competition watchdog probes supermarkets over 'abuse of suppliers'One in four Americans...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
The inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day will be celebrated with events around Australia next Wednesday 5 September. On the day, booksellers and publishers who have pledged their support will donate a...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
In response to recent changes to the Copyright Act, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has introduced a new license to ‘support legal copying by businesses.' An expansion of the current CAL...

Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Author threatenedBen Hills, the Australian author of the controversial book Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, has received threatening emails just before the Japanese translation was due for publication....

Monday, 27 August 2007
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, a book about political developments in 1850s NSW by Peter Cochrane (MUP), has won the $20,000 Age Book of the Year award, announced last Friday...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Following stories in the past two weeks on the controversy generated by Angus & Robertson's recent discussions with suppliers, the Weekly Book Newsletter sent a list of questions to ARW...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
With the 2007 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) due to open this Friday 24 August, running until 2 September, organisers have already sold ?over 90% of projected box office,' according to...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
The bean-counters at Bloomsbury must be rubbing their hands with something akin to glee, with both the latest Harry Potter offering and Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns holding the...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Rosemary Cameron writes: Mark Worner passed away last Tuesday in Sydney from liver cancer. Mark was Director of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival for many years in the late 1980s. Drinks to celebrate...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK indie publishers frustrated with chainsIs 'searchandising' the next online retail strategy?Is Rowling turning to crime?Bangladeshi writer...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
‘I think it's got about as much commercial appeal as Osama bin Laden's love sonnets. It's a terrible idea for a book, and I don't know why anybody would either...

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Stephen King mistaken for ‘vandal' in Alice SpringsThe bestselling author Stephen King was mistaken for a book vandal when he began signing copies of his latest book Lisey's Story at...

Monday, 20 August 2007
The shortlist for the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes are: Fiction Every Move You Make (David Malouf, Vintage)Underground (Andrew...

Monday, 20 August 2007
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, the winners of this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) book of the year awards have been announced. For full details, click here.CBCA Children's Book Week...