Tuesday, 3 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Borders launches a US online book club; Waterstone's reports another sales decline; Amazon.co.uk takes out ‘bestselling company of the year';...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Oxford University Press has appointed Peter van Noorden as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand operation (OUPANZ). Van Noorden, formerly general manager of the Jacaranda School Division at...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Caro Llewellyn, former director of the Sydney Writers' Festival, has been appointed the director of the PEN World Voices--The New York Festival of International Literature. The festival, which was launched...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Good Reading magazine has announced that as of 31 December this year it will no offer book sales through its Good Reading Direct service (operated by SeekMedia). The magazine, which...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
The Australian Food Media Club presented its annual awards on Wednesday 27 September. Winning titles were as follows: Simon Johnson award for excellence in a hardcover food-related book: Plenty: Digressions...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Frankfurt Book Fair, which kicks off on 4 October; the International Booksellers Federations' 50th...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006
This week the new Guinness World Records notches up a rather impressive record of its own; the 2007 edition has gone straight to number one in its first week out...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Among the new stories added to our Around the World blog:Turkish novelist acquitted of 'insulting' chargeMurakami wins world's richest short story prizesales up for Man Booker shortlisted titlesFor more, see...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the 20th International Rights Directors Meeting in Frankfurt on 3 October; followed by the big event, the Frankfurt Book Fair,...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Disgruntled PAs and butlers take note: there's a buck to be made in ragging out on your famous former employer. Lauren Weisberger did it in The Devil Wears Prada, using...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Iranian publisher Shahla Lahiji was awarded the inaugural International Publishers Association (IPA) Publishers' Freedom Prize on 21 September. Lahiji was given the award, worth 5000 Swiss Francs (A$4950), ‘in recognition...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
On Tuesday 19 September, the first box of The Peaceful Pill Handbook by voluntary euthanasia proponent Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart (Exit International) to be sent from the US to...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Several organisations representing authors and librarians have issued a joint statement protesting the forced removal of two books from the University of Melbourne's library. Join the Caravan (Azzam Publications) and...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Former Jacaranda Wiley MD John Collins writes: Shirley Macpherson, former college and professional marketing manager at Jacaranda Wiley (now Wiley Australia) has died in Toowomba, aged 75. A long-time publishers'...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
The Happiness of Kati by Jane Vejjajiva (Allen & Unwin) has been named the winner of the 2006 SEA Write Award. The book is the first children's title to have...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Adelaide, Nature of a City (ed by Christopher Daniels & Catherine Tait, Biocity--the Centre for Urban Habitats at the University of Adelaide) has been awarded the 2006 Whitley Medal. The...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Kate Lyons, author of The Water Underneath and The Corner of Your Eye (both Allen & Unwin), has been awarded Arts NSW's 2006 Writer's Fellowship. Lyons will receive $20,000 to...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Loney Planet has signed a licensing deal with Sony to launch a new series of ‘Passport to...' guides on Sony's Play Station Portable (PSP). The guides, to London, Amsterdam, Barcelona,...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Hachette Livre Australia has announced that Fiona Hazard has been appointed publishing director, effective immediately. Hazard, formerly director of publishing and production, has been at Hachette for seven years and...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
We have two quick matters to bring to your attention that relate to your subscription to WBN and/or MX.1. We're moving to a new, faster email-sending platform. Therefore, from the...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006
The Canadian Consulate General has announced Jeanne Ryckmans as the successful candidate for the inaugural Australia/Canada Publishers' Exchange.Ryckmans, publisher of fiction and nonfiction for Vintage, Knopf, Random and Arrow at...

Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Belinda Castles has been announced as the winner of this year's Australian/Vogel Literary Award.Castles won the award--for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under 35--for her second novel The River...

Tuesday, 19 September 2006
The Australian Government has released its draft recommendations for changes to the Copyright Act dealing with technological protection measures (TPMs).For more information, see this website.

Tuesday, 19 September 2006
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recommended that the Australian Government drop the term ‘sedition' from its anti-terror laws.Summarising the main outcome of a five-month review, ALRC president David...

Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Macmillan Publishers Australia has announced the resignation of Shane Armstrong as managing director of Macmillan Education Australia (MEA).After almost eight years with Macmillan, Armstrong is moving to Singapore to take...