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...

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...