The creditors of Melbourne’s Technical Bookshop, which went into administration in late August, have voted to accept a Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA) proposed by... Read more |
We have two quick matters to bring to your attention that relate to your subscription to WBN and/or MX. 1. We’re moving to a new,... Read more |
The Canadian Consulate General has announced Jeanne Ryckmans as the successful candidate for the inaugural Australia/Canada Publishers’ Exchange. Ryckmans, publisher of fiction and nonfiction for... Read more |
Loney Planet has signed a licensing deal with Sony to launch a new series of ‘Passport to…’ guides on Sony’s Play Station Portable (PSP). The... Read more |
Hachette Livre Australia has announced that Fiona Hazard has been appointed publishing director, effective immediately. Hazard, formerly director of publishing and production, has been at... Read more |
Several organisations representing authors and librarians have issued a joint statement protesting the forced removal of two books from the University of Melbourne’s library. Join... Read more |
On Tuesday 19 September, the first box of The Peaceful Pill Handbook by voluntary euthanasia proponent Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart (Exit International) to be... Read more |
Iranian publisher Shahla Lahiji was awarded the inaugural International Publishers Association (IPA) Publishers’ Freedom Prize on 21 September. Lahiji was given the award, worth 5000... Read more |
The biennial conference of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) was held in Perth from 19 to 22 September. During the conference, delegates voted... Read more |
Disgruntled PAs and butlers take note: there’s a buck to be made in ragging out on your famous former employer. Lauren Weisberger did it in... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the 20th International Rights Directors Meeting in Frankfurt on 3 October; followed by the big... Read more |
Among the new stories added to our Around the World blog: Turkish novelist acquitted of ‘insulting’ charge Murakami wins world’s richest short story prize sales... Read more |
Scott Whitmont, owner of the Lindfield Bookshop and the Lindfield Children’s Bookshop in Sydney, has been announced as the new president of the New South... Read more |
Adelaide, Nature of a City (ed by Christopher Daniels & Catherine Tait, Biocity–the Centre for Urban Habitats at the University of Adelaide) has been awarded... Read more |
Kate Lyons, author of The Water Underneath and The Corner of Your Eye (both Allen & Unwin), has been awarded Arts NSW’s 2006 Writer’s Fellowship.... Read more |
Former Jacaranda Wiley MD John Collins writes: Shirley Macpherson, former college and professional marketing manager at Jacaranda Wiley (now Wiley Australia) has died in Toowomba,... Read more |
The Happiness of Kati by Jane Vejjajiva (Allen & Unwin) has been named the winner of the 2006 SEA Write Award. The book is the... Read more |
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