Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Morris Lurie has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Patrick White Award.The award, which is worth $25,000, is presented each year to a writer whose work the award...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
The finalists for this year’s Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book were announced last week. The three finalists are Neil Chenoweth for Packer’s Lunch (Allen & Unwin), Tim Flannery for...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Picador) is one of five books in the running for the UK's Guardian First Book Award.The award, worth £10,000 (A$24,000) was established in...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
In the US, Tim Flannery has just been announced as the winner of the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, in recognition of his ‘significant contributions to English-language literature.'For more...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Jeni Caffin has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. Caffin, who has been publicist for the festvial for the past two years and was...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week Martina Cole helps the UK market to its biggest week this year; reports O J Simpson is set to publish...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Warren Stokes, owner of Spectrum Bookshop, said he was ‘very, very happy' with the deal that would see his business acquired by Campion Education. ‘I've worked here for 27 years...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Following last week's report that the Thomson Corporation, US-based parent company of Thomson Learning, had arranged to sell NETg, the corporate education and training arm of its Thomson Learning division,...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Jane Palfreyman has resigned from her position of executive publisher at Random House, effective 17 November. Palfreyman, who has held various senior publishing roles at the company over the past...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Following the recent removal of the five-cent piece from New Zealand currency, Booksellers New Zealand has raised the concern of its members regarding five-cent price-points with magazine distributors Gordon & Gotch,...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade organisation for digital publishing formerly known as Open eBook Forum, has announced the release of a new technical standard ‘to...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
A selection of Patrick White's personal papers was put on display by the National Library of Australia on Saturday, following the library's acquisition of 33 boxes of material through the...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Several writing workshops and festivals are among the 92 projects to have been granted funding approval by the federal government program Regional Arts Australia in the latest round of funding....

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The inaugural EDS Dylan Thomas Prize has been awarded to Welsh author Rachel Trezise for her collection of short stories Fresh Apples (Parthian Books). The prize, worth £60,000 (A$140,000) is...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Cat, an unpublished manuscript written by Mike Dumbleton and illustrated by Craig Smith, has been selected from over 60 entries to be developed as a picture book, theatrical production and...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include a Jeffrey Archer author signing at the Angus & Robertson bookstore in Burke Street, Melbourne on...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Not since The Latham Diaries has one book attracted so much attention among the nation's political commentators. Now the sales figures are in and it turns out Jonestown: The Power...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The 2006 Books Alive campaign has been hailed a success by its organisers, with the 50 featured books selling over 15% more copies than the 2005 selection, and market research...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
American author William Styron has died at the age of 81. Styron was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage), but was best known...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Statistics provided to WBN by internet ranking company Hitwise have demonstrated the absolute dominance of Amazon as the Australian public's preferred source of book information online.In a typical week in...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Thomson Corporation, the US-based parent company of Thomson Learning, which has operations in 39 countries, including Australia, has announced it will sell the Thomson Learning group in ‘three independent...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week, Adobe unveils a new ebook Internet application; Penguin enters the virtual reality world market; Amazon and AAP object to Google...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Springcleaning is in the air ... and it seems the nation's readers are inspired to pull out the dusters and the squeegee mops with Shannon Lush and Jennifer Fleming. Their cleaning bible Spotless,...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the APA Basic Editing and Proofreading Workshop in Sydney on 2 November, and the Copyright...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Wendy Lowenstein, oral historian, author and passionate defender of workers' rights, has died in Melbourne from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 79. Lowenstein's books include Weevils in the Flour (Scribe),...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Another successful Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge has come to an end. The 2006 challenge, which ran from February until the end of August, recorded almost twice as many successful participators...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) national executive, which is currently based in New South Wales, is coming to the end of its two-year term and will hand over...