The National Library of Australia (NLA) has recently begun the process of moving 40 kilometres of its collection material into a new offsite storage facility.... Read more
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The Victorian public library system has announced a new, state-wide internet catalogue and interlibrary loan system called LibraryLink. Launched last week, LibraryLink makes the catalogues... Read more
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As the trade counts down to the changeover to 13-digit ISBNs on 1 January 2007, booksellers, publishers, distributors and software vendors have all been meeting... Read more
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Coles Myer, Australia’s second-largest retailer, has been in the news in the past week with confirmation that it has been approached by a possible buyer,... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that its 2007 conference will be held in Melbourne from Sunday 17 to Tuesday 19 June at the... Read more
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As reported in a WBN special bulletin last Friday, the winners and honour books in this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of... Read more
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Imagine how useful it would be if the whole book trade had access to the same calendar. Now it does! Our new online events calendar provides the... Read more
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Pan Macmillan has announced a new trade publishing division, Picador Asia. The imprint will aim to secure world rights to Asian titles to publish simultaneously in... Read more
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Rockpool Publishing, a new Australian publishing house owned by former Random House production manager Lisa Hanrahan and Gary Allen of book distributor Gary Allen Pty... Read more
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The Prime Minister, John Howard, has announced the creation of a new annual prize for Australian history. The prize, which the Prime Minister said could... Read more
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The deadline for applications for grants from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Professional Development Fund is this Friday, 25 August. In 2005-06 $150,000 was allocated... Read more
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It looks like Australian readers like a little murder and mystery in their reading diet at the moment. The Husband, Dean Koontz’s nail-biter about a... Read more
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Jim Hall, former editor and literary editor of the Australian newspaper and editor of the Bulletin magazine, died last week, aged 71. Although he spent... Read more
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Popular and prolific Australian playwright and author Alex Buzo has died at the age of 62, after a long battle with cancer. Buzo was best... Read more
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The importance of Australia as a rights market will be discussed at the 20th International Rights Directors Meeting, to be held the day before this year’s Frankfurt... Read more
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In news from our Around the World blog, arts and development funding body New Zealand Creative gets a new chief executive; Time Out booksellers launch... Read more
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The shortlist of books for this year’s Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) awards–the ACT’s children’s choice book awards–has been announced. Voting begins on 1 September and finishes on... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our Events Calendar, include: Children’s Book Week, which wraps up on 25 August; the University of... Read more
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