Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The winner's of this year's Davitt Awards, presented by the Sisters in Crime organisation and named after Australian mystery writer Ellen Davitt, were announced on 13 October in Melbourne. The...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The Brisbane and Sydney writers' festivals were named state winners in this year's NAB volunteer awards, which recognise organisations that ‘create a positive and inclusive environment for volunteers.' ‘The NAB...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The winners of this year's LIANZA (Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) awards were announced on 9 October as part of the LIANZA conference held in Wellington. The winners...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has ‘vehemently condemned' the recent killing in Moscow of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.‘The murder of Anna Politkovskaya is not only a tragedy and an attack...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced that the second IPA Publishers’ Freedom Prize will be presented at the 2007 Cape Town Book Fair. ‘In numerous countries around the world...

Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The government has made available the draft text of proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, ahead of the Copyright Amendment Bill which is due to be introduced into Parliament sometime...

Monday, 16 October 2006
Booksellers, publishers and authors have been formally invited to nominate titles for consideration in the 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide by the campaign's organisers. ‘Books Alive is keen to see...

Thursday, 12 October 2006
Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was announced as the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature last week.The judges said of Pamuk--who was raised in Istanbul but currently lives in...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton) by Indian-born writer Kiran Desai has won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, announced in the UK this morning. Desai, whose mother Anita Desai has...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop's proposal to set up a national school curriculum board is a welcome one for many Australian educational publishers. ‘As an educational publisher, it's a...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
A&R Whitcoulls Group (ARW Group), which operates the Angus & Robertson bookselling chain in Australia and Whitcoulls in New Zealand, has announced a partnership with the newsagency chain Supanews, which...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Michelle Laforest, managing director of Harlequin Mills & Boon in Australia, has told WBN that the workforce cuts recently announced by Canadian-based parent company Torstar Corporation would not affect Australian...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
It's been a big week in the world of crime fiction with new installments in the Alex Cross and Harry Bosch sagas from James Patterson and Michael Connelly. Patterson's Cross...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya has died. The passionate critic of the war in Chechnya and the Putin administration was shot dead in Moscow on Saturday 7 October.Between 2003...

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
The winners of the 2006 NSW Premier's History Awards were announced in Newcastle last week.The annual awards were instituted in 1997, with the intention of ‘recognising and promoting excellence in...

Sunday, 8 October 2006
As another Frankfurt Book Fair comes to a close, how has it gone from an Australian perspective? Having polled a large number of exhibitors in Hall 8.0 over the week,...

Thursday, 5 October 2006
Thorpe-Bowker publisher Andrew Wilkins has again been on the spot at the Frankfurt Book Fair, reporting each day not only for WBN but also for the Fair's official daily bulletins. His stories...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
The winning titles in the 2006 WAYRBAs (Western Australian Young Readers' Book Awards) were announced on 22 September. The winners were as follows: Younger readers' award: Garden of the Purple...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Allen & Unwin's Patrick Gallagher was among the speakers at the 20th Rights Directors Meeting, a traditional precursor of the Frankfurt Book Fair. With a topic covering the English-language rights market,...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
This year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is focusing strongly on education and literacy, with a theme of ‘Education for the Future.' Speaking at the opening press conference of the fair,...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
This year's Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair is India, which today unveiled a major exhibition focused on its literature and cultural history. Coordinated by the National Book...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
A 4% increase in exhibitors from Germany has more than compensated for a small drop in overseas exhibitors this year, allowing the Frankfurt Book Fair to legitimately claim another record...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
With a turnover of about US$88 billion (A$115 billion), the global publishing industry is the world's largest creative industry, International Publishers Association (IPA) president and Argentinian publisher Ana Maria Caballenas...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Sony has finally released its much-delayed Sony Reader in the US--but so far the global electronics giant has no plans to release the device in Australia.The paperback-sized reader, which has...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
The 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair starts today.More than 280,000 people are expected to attend this year's fair. All 13 exhibition halls at the fair are sold out and 3.5% more...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Federal Attorney-general Philip Ruddock has rejected the key recommendation of the Australian Law Reform Commission's report into the Government's 2005 Anti-terrorism Act--that the term ‘sedition' be removed.‘I won't be recommending...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Administrator Worrells Insolvency has issued an update to the creditors of remainder wholesaler Australian Book Centre, which went into liquidation earlier this year.The update reveals that unsecured trade creditors still...