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...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:French teenager arrested for posting HP translationIndonesian academics fight burning of booksAmazon ponders same-day delivery in UKB&T/AMS...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched The Franchisee Manual, a publication intended to ‘assist people thinking about buying a franchise and also existing franchisees to understand and...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
News Corp, the parent company of HarperCollins, has again announced record earnings, with a full-year operating income of US$4.45 billion (A$5.17 billion), representing 15% growth on last year.Globally, HarperCollins has increased...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Clearly, readers are still a bit Harry-mad, with the top two spots this week going to the two editions (adult and children's) of HP7, and the Half-Blood Prince making an appearance as...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Going West Books and Writing Festival in New Zealand 14-16 August Retail Expo Australasia runs...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Dymocks held its annual conference over four days last week in Sydney.Dymocks CEO Don Grover told WBN: ‘We had all major publishers represented and our 70 franchise stores. We had...

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
‘I completely acknowledge that the tone of this correspondence was inappropriate'--Angus & Robertson general manager David Fenlon in his 'clarification' letter to Crikey

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
The shortlist for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes are: The Vance Palmer Prize for FictionThe Time We...