Tuesday, 24 April 2007
The shortlists for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced on 29 May, during the Sydney Writers' Festival. The main book category shortlists...

Monday, 23 April 2007
As announced in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, the four titles shortlisted for the 2007 Miles Franklin Award are: Careless (Deborah Robertson, Picador)Carpentaria (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)Dreams of Speaking (Gail...

Monday, 23 April 2007
Asbestos House (Scribe), Gideon Haigh's examination of James Hardie and the controversies surrounding its compensation of those injured by exposure to asbestos, has won the $30,000 2007 Blake Dawson Waldren...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Da Vinci Code appeal failsSterling in VietnamSecond round of British Book AwardsNelson stamps out 'imprint pollution'US bookstore...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
State and territory education ministers and the federal minister for education Julie Bishop have negotiated a deal that will see all states and territories develop a new minimum standard national...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
State and territory attorneys-general have agreed to a request by federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock to investigate how they can more closely restrict material that advocates terrorism. Ahead of a meeting...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The rights to Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical epic Shantaram and a new book, The Mountain Shadow, have been purchased by Pan Macmillan, where they will be published under the Picador...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Peter Rose, editor of the Melbourne-based literary magazine Australian Book Review (ABR), has announced that financial management business Ord Minnett is the magazine's new and exclusive corporate sponsor. The financial...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The 10 winning works in this year's ‘One Book Many Brisbanes' short story competition were announced by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman on 11 April. The winning stories in the...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The books shortlisted for this year's CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced yesterday at a ceremony hosted by the Governor of Victoria David de Kretser at Government House...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) has announced it will offset all carbon emissions from this year's festival, as well as introducing a ‘range of initiatives to reduce [its] environmental impact.'...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The six titles shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction were announced in London yesterday. The shortlisted titles are: Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
In the forthcoming episode of the ABC's ‘First Tuesday Book Club', to be screened on 1 May, the following feature titles will be announced: The Raw Shark Texts (Steven Hall, Text) and Alice's...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The 2007 London Book Fair (LBF) is currently underway.Early reports suggest that the new venue at Earls Court has been received much more warmly than last year's controversial Docklands site.Along...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The winners of the annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday at a luncheon at Columbia University. Books honoured in the Letters, Drama and Music section were:Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Picador)...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Thorpe-Bowker has launched another supplement to Bookseller+Publisher magazine with the first issue of Innovation+Technology (‘I+T'), which is being distributed with the April/May issue of Bookseller+Publisher. ‘There is scarcely a part...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The Australian arm of John Wiley & Sons celebrated its parent company's 200th birthday at a special celebratory dinner last night at Brisbane's Marriott Hotel. The dinner, for 135 guests, was attended...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
UK-based book wholesaler Gardners has announced that it will expand its services to include a ‘digital warehouse'.The digital warehouse will allow publishers to link their existing digital files, e-books, audio...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Veteran British publisher and bookseller John Calder has announced that he has chosen Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini of Alma Books to take over his businesses.Calder said: ‘I am over...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The 2007 Angus & Robertson Top 100 Book List was released on Tuesday with the ‘Harry Potter' series taking out the top spot, followed by The Da Vinci Code and...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) Project has announced that it has passed a ‘major milestone' following a recent meeting in London.ACAP is a joint initiative by book and newspaper...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has supported a case filed against China at the World Trade Organisation by the United States, which includes allegations of ‘inadequate protection' against piracy and...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
A potential takeover bid for Funtastic has been called off.Talks between Funtastic's major shareholder, childcare provider ABC Learning, and ‘an unnamed third party' have been terminated, leading to the end...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a new Publishers' Career Development Fund that will offer $50,000 in grants each year. The fund will offer publishers grants for staff career development...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Second Life, the ‘virtual world' that is currently one of the most popular sites on the internet, has announced the inaugural Second Life Book Fair (SLBF). The fair runs from...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Award will be announced tomorrow, Thursday 19 April. WBN will send subscribers a special bulletin as soon as the shortlist is released.

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Wednesday 25 April, next week's WBN will be sent on Thursday 26 April. However, the deadline for advertising and editorial submissions will...

Tuesday, 17 April 2007
The kids are reclaiming the charts this week, with the sixth Specky Magee title (released to coincide with the kick-off of the 2007 footy season) breaking into the adult-fiction-heavy top...