Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Conservative US journalist, author and former US President Richard Nixon's speechwriter William Safire has died, aged 79. He wrote Freedom and Full Disclosure, among other titles.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Authors on tour from September to March 2010: SeptemberJeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution)Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print)Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage)Padma Viswanathan, UWA...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The Five Mile Press has announced that Michael Herridge has been appointed interim CEO of the company. The appointment follows the resignation, last week, of former CEO Lesley Williams, who...

Friday, 25 September 2009
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (A&U) is the overall winner of the second annual Indie Book of the Year. Silvey, whose book won the fiction category of the 2009 award, wins...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
‘Reworking the deal will not be an easy process ... as the parties must address issues ranging from class action law to copyright, as well as antitrust and foreign rights issues'--Publishers...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Australian book publishing industry (estimated at over $2 billion dollars in publishers' sales) posted another highly productive year in 2008, reports University of Melbourne Book Industry Study researcher Leslyn...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Mills & Boon romance brand will get a new look as part of plans to attract a younger audience. Marketing agency BMC Sydney will assist the imprint's owner Harlequin...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Australia-based software developer DNAML has launched a new software product that converts PDFs of trade titles to the digital ePub format. DNAML CEO Adam Schmidt told WBN that the software...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon forces changes to LibraryThingScribd fights author lawsuitGoogle adds 2 million titles to Espresso...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on Monday, HarperCollins has announced a restructure of its publishing business that will see Sandy Weir, formerly of Hachette Australia's Orion division, joining the team...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Random House Australia (RHA) has launched a print on demand (POD) program that will allow it to produce single copies of out-of-print titles. The program, which has been 18 months...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Booksellers New Zealand has responded to the release in ebook format of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. The ebook, which Random House has made available to Australian and New Zealand...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold German rights to MoVida Rustica, 100 Discoveries (Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish) and My Grill (Peter Evans); Slovenian rights to marie...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will again be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, to support and distribute Think Australian, the annual guide to Australia's presence at the fair, and to...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The newly created Centre for Books Writing and Ideas together with the Victorian Writers Centre, is asking Victorian booksellers and publishers to contribute to a database of literary activity in Victoria. The...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 is number one in the Highest New Entries this week as Sydneysiders take to restaurants with gastronomical gusto. You can't keep Stephanie...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize--festivities in France, 21-27 SeptemberGoteberg Book Fair, 24-27 SeptemberABA Spring Booksellers'...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Cyril Jerram, founder of Inkata Press (now a division of Elsevier Australia) has died, aged 79. Guy Kingston-Bray of Elsevier Australia writes: 'Elsevier is saddened to learn of the passing...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Author Catherine Gaskin has died, aged 80. Her first book was This Other Eden, other titles included Dust in Sunlight, All Else is Folly and Daughter of the House.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Authors on tour from September to March 2010: September Jeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution) Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print) Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of Modern...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Australian and New Zealand authors are among those nominated for this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Morris Gleitzman, Shaun Tan, Hazel Edwards and Margaret Mahy are all in the running...

Sunday, 20 September 2009
It's been years since Dan Brown reigned over the Media Extra Most Mentioned chart and now that he's back, we suspect he'll be back for a while. Brown's latest tome...

Thursday, 17 September 2009
The shortlisted titles for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett at the State Library of Victoria on Friday 18 September. Garrett,...

Thursday, 17 September 2009
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang and Night Street by Kristel Thornell have been jointly named the winning manuscripts in the 2009 Australian/Vogel award. Judges Cate Kennedy, Matt Rubinstein, Margo Lanagan...

Wednesday, 16 September 2009
The date on which the federal cabinet will make a decision on the recent Productivity Commission recommendations to remove Australia's book parallel importation laws remains unclear, with some in the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Following the announcement that it has acquired Universal Publishers (UP), Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Ian Webster as managing director of UP. ‘Ian brings considerable experience to the...

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
WBN's sister publication Australian Library News (ALN) has launched a new website at www.librarynews.com.au.The site contains information about ALN, the only independent, weekly news source on the library sector in...