Tuesday, 27 June 2006
The industry-wide transition to full ONIX compliance, and the lead-up to the changeover to ISBN-13 in January 2007, are both well underway.All participants in the supply chain-including publishers, distributors, booksellers,...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
The Galley Club of Sydney held its annual awards presentation last Friday night, recognising the best in Australian printing and production.Book category winners include:Book of the year: Italian Joy (Penguin/Imago)Non-Standard...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual creative fellowships and the Redmond Barry Fellowship.The creative fellowship program is funded by the State Library of...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), the international standards organisation for the book trade, has warned that a number of publishers have jumped the gun on ISBN-13 changes and have...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Sydney's Books Kinokuniya has been awarded the merit prize in the best recreational retailer category in the 2006 American Express Rewards for Excellence.The AmEx Rewards are organised by the National...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
The Romance Writers of Australia has announced the finalists in this year's Romantic Book of the Year award - the RBY. Finalists in the long romance section are: The Perfect...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Melbourne bookseller Readings has announced that it will donate one dollar from every book sold in the week of 26 to 30 June in support of the Brotherhood of St...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Kristina Schulz of ABC Books is one of 18 recipients of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowships.The ‘Frankfurt Fellows' are a group publishers and agents from 15 countries who will...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
An International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) system has been introduced, similar to the ISBN system the book industry has been using for decades.Launched in Australia last week, ISAN is a...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Random House UK has bought a majority stake in BBC Books.BBC Books will become part of Random's Ebury division, which specialises in TV tie-ins and ‘brand-led nonfiction'. BBC Worldwide will...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Sitting comfortably atop the bestsellers chart for the second week running is Cathy Kelly's Past Secrets, followed this week by Patricia Cornwell's New York Times serialisation At Risk. Cornwell has...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Publisher and journalist Lyle Stuart died on Saturday, aged 83. Stuart was the head of his eponymous publishing house and, after it was sold, the founder of Barricade Books. He...

Sunday, 25 June 2006
In the second of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Jason Steger, books editor of the Age and...

Sunday, 25 June 2006
Sebastian Junger's new book A Death in Belmont is still making a splash in book news with mentions in national media as well as two states and one territory. Brian...

Thursday, 22 June 2006
The 72 titles shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Awards for Excellence inEducational Publishing have been announced.All category winners and the overall winner will be announced on Thursday 27July at a...

Thursday, 22 June 2006
Roger McDonald is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Vintage) With prize money of $42,000, the Miles Franklin is...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
The appointment of Imre Saluzinsky to the chair of the Australia Council's Literature Board, and of Joe Gersh to the role of deputy chair of OzCo, has raised some eyebrows...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
John Wiley & Sons has released financial results for the year ending 30 April, showing that its global sales increased eight percent on 2004-05, with revenue topping US$1 billion (A$1.3...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
The inaugural Kinokuniya Digital Art Prize, sponsored by Thames & Hudson, was awarded at the Sydney branch of the Japanese-owned Kinokuniya bookshop chain last week. The winner is Shira Livne,...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Further to last week's story on booktrade people being recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours list, Gail Hewison and Libby Silva from The Feminist Bookshop in Sydney's Lilyfield both received...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
The shortlist for New Zealand's Spectrum Print Book Design Awards has been announced.In the running for best book are Sarah Maxey for Afternoon of an Evening Train (Gregory O'Brien, Victoria...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
A number of major overseas literary prizes have been announced in the last week: the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, the IMPAC award and the James Tait Black Memorial prize.James...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Response to the inaugural Cape Town Book Fair (CTBF) has exceeded expectations, with what fair director Vanessa Badroodien called ‘overwhelming support from the public and trade visitors.'‘None of us could...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
This year's Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced in Sydney on Thursday night.The shortlist for the Award--Australia's largest single literary prize at $42,000--is:•            Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Carrie...

Tuesday, 20 June 2006
As announced in a WBN Special Bulletin last Thursday, Roger McDonald is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Vintage) With...

Sunday, 18 June 2006
In the first of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'Alo, we meet Murray Waldren, literary editor of...

Sunday, 18 June 2006
This week, all five of our Most Mentioned titles received three mentions in the weekend media, as recorded by our Media Extra contributors. We're particularly pleased to see that local...

Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Welcome to the first online version of Media Extra (MX) and our sincere apologies for its delay in reaching you.When we launched MX in 2004, we wanted to create an affordable...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
The 2006 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference--the 82nd annual event--was held from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 June at the Peppers Resort at Kingscliff in northern NSW.The ABA reports that...

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
At the ABA conference dinner, held on the Saturday night, Kate Grenville's The Secret River (Text) was announced as the winner of the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice award. ‘This is...