Thursday, 1 February 2007
As first reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will have a worldwide release on Saturday 21...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
In our Around the World blog this week:Is AMS headed for liquidation?Shafak cuts US tour after Dink murderT S Eliot Prize for Seamus Heaneyto see more, click here

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Text Publishing has announced that is has signed a new novel by Nobel laureate and double Booker-winner J M Coetzee. Diary of a Bad Year will be published in Australia...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers (Text) and a number of other books on nature and the environment, has been named Australian of the Year for 2007. Flannery, who...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
ABC Fiction Award-winner Will Elliot has taken out the Golden Aurealis, the highest award in Australian speculative fiction, for his debut novel The Pilo Family Circus (ABC Books).Elliot was presented...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include several overseas book fairs: the International Book Fair in Cairo, the Kolkata Book Fair and...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
After several weeks in the top 10, Kim Edward's family drama The Memory Keepers Daughter has finally taken out the top spot. The bestselling title also made it into this...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Hachette Livre Australia has announced the appointment of Matt Hoy as sales and marketing director of its Little, Brown division. Hoy, currently senior national accounts manager at Allen & Unwin,...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
A memorial tribute for Neil Curtis, who sadly passed away on Monday 11 December last year, will be held on Sunday 4 February at 2pm, Middle Park Bowling Club, Canterbury...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Era Publications writes: ‘On the occasion of the memorial held for illustrator Neil Curtis, the team at Era Publications offers sincere condolences to his partner and son.Neil was a fantastic...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Book Expo America (BEA) has launched a new website at http://www.bookexpoamerica.com, designed to be ‘a more effective, year-round tool in building relationships,' according to event director Lance Festerman.Many new features...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Australian audiobook publisher Bolinda has six of its titles in the running for the Audies, the annual US-based audiobook awards.The six Bolinda titles are:Knitting (Anne Bartlett, read by Beverley Dunn),...

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has died of cancer at the age of 73. As the Polish Press Agency's sole foreign correspondent during the 1960s and 70s, Kapuscinski travelled...

Monday, 29 January 2007
The NSW Writers' Centre has added a new event to its calendar: the Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival.The inaugural Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival will be held on Saturday 26 March, with...

Monday, 29 January 2007
Young Australian Muslim author Randa Abdel-Fatah has been named on the longlist for the UK's deciBel Writer of the Year award, for her debut YA novel Does My Head Look...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Fiona Henderson has been appointed as a publisher at Hachette Livre Australia.‘Fiona's appointment, along with Vanessa Radnidge's recent promotion to publisher, effectively doubles Hachette's commissioning capacity and, along with a...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Hardie Grant Books MD Julie Pinkham has announced a number of recent appointments and promotions.Fran Berry has been promoted to publishing director. ‘Fran will now lead the publishing endeavours of...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Mark Scott has been formally appointed as general manager of Funtastic's publishing division.Scott has been acting in the role for the last four months, overseeing a restructure of Funtastic's publishing...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The big Christmas sellers continue to wield their influence on the bestsellers charts this week; looks like all those people who weren't lucky enough to find a copy of The...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The winners of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals have been announced at the American Library Association's midwinter conference in Seattle.The Newbery winner is Susan Patron for The Higher Power of...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The shortlists for the Aurealis Awards, Australia's premier awards for speculative fiction, have been announced.With 12 categories covering science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and short stores for adults and...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The Perseus Books Group has made a formal offer for all of the distribution contracts of US distributor Publishers Group West (PGW), which has been caught up in the Chapter...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has condemned the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul last week.IPA spokesperson Bjorn Smith-Simondsen said in a statement: ‘He was a free...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Among a bumper crop of overseas news in our Around the World blog this week:Da Vinci Code copyright appeal opensAre literary prize nominations contractual obligations?Pearson reveals digital plansHC closes down...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include the International Book Fair in Cairo, which runs from 23 January until the 4 February;...

Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Children's book author and editor Ann Philippa Pearce has died of a stroke at the age of 86. Pearce produced more than 30 children's books during her career, including the...