Sunday, 18 October 2009
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book industry event, closed on Sunday 18 October. After five days packed with meetings, seminars and other events (and of course dinners,...

Saturday, 17 October 2009
Australian authors Shaun Tan and Marcus Zusak have been announced as winners at the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious awards for children's and YA books.The awards ceremony, held as part...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the winners of its annual ‘Book of the Year' Awards. The awards, which began in 2003, are intended to highlight books that can ‘assist children's...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
A shortlist of 17 print, audio and film works in the running for the 2009 NSW Premier's History Awards have been announced. The shortlists include: Australian History Prize ($15,000)Travels in...

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Booksellers New Zealand has announced it plans to launch a new weekly newsletter and website on Thursday 22 October. The newsletter, to be called The Read, will combine the organisation's...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The nominees for this year's Walkley Awards were announced on Wednesday night, 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Macmillan)To...

Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Penguin Group has announced changes to its global management structure that will see Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne taking on regional responsibility for Asia Pacific. Under the new structure, Coyne...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In international news from our Around the World blog: Lonely Planet appoints new head of US operations Douglas Adams a hit on iPhoneGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterates opposition to Google...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher: Stephanie Johnston tells us about Brazil’s FLIP literary festivalAndrew Wilkins reports from Tonga Unwin Trust fellow Amy Tipper shares some of her findings on Australia’s...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Collins Booksellers has announced the resignation of CEO Peter Lothian. Lothian, who held the position for almost three years, will finish on Thursday 22 October. He told WBN he would remain...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Striped World by Sydney poet Emma Jones (Faber) has won Best First Collection at Britain's Forward Prizes for Poetry. The £5000 pound (A$8935) prize, awarded in London on Wednesday...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has become a shareholder in the UK-based publisher Atlantic Books. A&U's involvement as a significant shareholder follows the decision of Atlantic Books' New York-based parent company...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
German author Herta Müller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Svenska Akademien described Müller as a writer, ‘who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The winners of New Zealand's Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Awards have been announced. One of the NZ$35,000 (A$28,300) awards went to Peter Wells MBE to write a book of biographical essays...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The titles shortlisted for this year's Inky Awards for YA literature have been announced. Shortlisted for the Golden Inky for an Australian author were Worldshaker (Richard Harland, A&U); Everything Beautiful...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak professional body for editors, held a successful National Editors Conference during October, on the banks of the River Torrens in Adelaide. The...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Borders this week announced its 100 Favourite Books of All Time, as voted for by customers. Subscribers to the Borders e-newsletter were asked to vote for their favourite book throughout...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its sixth year, was held in Ubud, Bali, from 7 to 11 October.While final numbers will not be available until the end...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
In rights news this week: SalesFiction-Hachette Australia has sold US rights to Stephen Irwin's The Dead Path (also known as The Darkening) to Doubleday via Scott Miller at Trident Media...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
‘I'm tired of going to conferences and talking about "the future": we're in it already ... what are you doing?'--Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan UK addressing the inaugural O'Reilly Tools...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the 61th fair of Frankfurt's modern era, gets underway officially from today, but already the German city is a hive of international publishing activity. The...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest presides over the Highest New Entries chart this week and comes second in the Bestsellers after The Lost Symbol by Dan...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 14-18 OctoberAustralian and NZ Society of Indexers Conference, Sydney, 15-17 OctoberSisters...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has been making many an appearance on the MX Most Mentioned chart of late, thanks to her new novel The Year of the Flood. Local favourite...

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Monday 2 November. The second annual award ceremony will be a lunchtime event to be held in...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mantel's novel was the favourite to win the prize and is the first bookies'...