Science, technical and medical (STM) publishing group Springer has made an approach to buy Informa, the parent company of publisher Taylor & Francis. While the... Read more
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Plans for the 2007 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference are well underway. The ABA has announced that sponsorship opportunities for the conference are now open... Read more
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The takeover bid for retailer Coles Myer by US-based venture capital group Kolhberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has been abandoned. The Coles Myer board last week... Read more
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As expected, Jonestown (A&U), Chris Masters’ unauthorised biography of Sydney radio personality Alan Jones, received much media in the lead-up to its release on Monday,... Read more
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Educational publisher Eleanor Curtain Publishing received a commendation award as part of this year’s Governor of Victoria Export Awards. Company founder Eleanor Curtain was presented... Read more
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After establishing the Angus & Robertson Manly franchise territory 14 years ago, Sydney bookseller Sally Chilvers has decided it’s time to move on. ‘I set... Read more
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Australia’s Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced that it is adopting ‘a range of strategies to accelerate payments to members in 2006/2007.’ The initiatives are... Read more
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Pan Macmillan has announced a recall of Australian Jihad, a nonfiction account of the Bali bombings and subsequent investigations of Jemiah Islamiah, written by Walkley... Read more
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The Australian Readers’ Challenge (ARC) Certificate Day ceremony was held at Customs House in Sydney on Monday, with NSW governor Marie Bahsir presiding and representatives... Read more
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In news from our Around the World blog this week, Thomas Nelson announces it will be dropping all its imprints; Bertelsmann launches a new digital... Read more
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WBN is saddened to report that John Nieuwenhuizen, a former editor of WBN and Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, died suddenly last Friday. After working... Read more
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It’s out with the old and in with the new. There are four new entries in this week’s top 10 bestsellers. True crime makes a... Read more
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Popular British travel writer Eric Newby, whose books include A Short Walk in Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines (both Pan Macmillan),... Read more
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