Publishers and distributors that visit the Frankfurt Book Fair are again warned to beware of correspondence from Austrian-based company Construct Data Verlag AG and an... Read more |
As first annnounced in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, Australian authors M J Hyland and Kate Grenville have made the shortlist for this year’s Man... Read more |
Belinda Castles has been announced as the winner of this year’s Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Castles won the award–for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under... Read more |
German historian and author Joachim Fest, best known for his biographies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, has died, aged 79. His book Inside... Read more |
The Australian Government has released its draft recommendations for changes to the Copyright Act dealing with technological protection measures (TPMs). For more information, see this... Read more |
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recommended that the Australian Government drop the term ‘sedition’ from its anti-terror laws. Summarising the main outcome of... Read more |
ABC Enterprises hosted the 2006 ABC Retail Conference over three days in Sydney last week. The conference was attended by 170 delegates–ABC Shop managers, staff... Read more |
Macmillan Publishers Australia has announced the resignation of Shane Armstrong as managing director of Macmillan Education Australia (MEA). After almost eight years with Macmillan, Armstrong... Read more |
WA-based educational bookseller Encompass Infoshop is for sale. After starting Encompass Infoshop in 1994, owner Allen Gianatti has decided to put the business out to... Read more |
The finalists in the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature have been announced, along with the finalists for the Best Writing Award. The winner of the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Advertiser’s Big Book Club Literary Event, which finishes up on 20... Read more |
The 2006 Brisbane Writers Festival wound up on Sunday, having run from 13 September. This was the 10th annual festival and the first for director... Read more |
This week it’s all about the fairies: Rainbow Magic Funday Fairies. They’ve taken up all but the top spot in this week’s highest new entries... Read more |
The 2006 annual conference of Book City franchisees was held in Melbourne on the weekend of 9 and 10 September, with the theme ‘working to... Read more |
Novelists Julian Davies and Robin Wallace-Crabbe; illustrator-bookbinder Phil Day; and bookseller Ingeborg Hansen have formed the publishing house Finlay Lloyd, which last week published the collection... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced it will be running an expanded mentorship program with funding of $150,000 from the Cultural Fund of... Read more |
Unseen Footprints by Sheridan Voysey (Scripture Union) has been named the 2006 winner of the Australian Christian Book of the Year award. Also shortlisted for... Read more |
Dymocks has announced it will open a new store in the Westfield Queensgate Centre at Lower Hutt in New Zealand in early November. The franchise... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week comes reports that Amazon is developing its own e-book reader; meanwhile Sony’s e-Reader will be... Read more |
German-born writer Sasha Soldatow has died in Sydney, aged 58. His book Private: Do Not Open (Penguin) was one of the first explicitly gay works... Read more |
Maori writer and popular young-adult author Kingi McKinnon has died at the age of 63. McKinnon wrote several award-winning novels about the experience of young... Read more |
Anthropologist and author Margaret Orbell has died at the age of 72. Orbell dedicated her career to the promotion of Maori literature. Her books include... Read more |
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