Publishers/distributors are asked to advise WBN of their Christmas closing dates by 4 December. A full list will appear once only in WBN on 6... Read more |
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin on Monday, John Wiley & Sons has entered into a ‘definitive agreement’ to buy Blackwell Publishing, at a... Read more |
Your Summer Holiday – Booked!, a summer fiction promotional sampler, will be distributed to participating booksellers next week. Produced by BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine and designed by award-winning... Read more |
As reported in last week’s WBN, the Australia Council’s literature board has announced a total of $2.1 million worth of grants to writers around Australia... Read more |
The inaugural $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, the most valuable literary award in Australia, was awarded to Helen Garner at a well-attended ceremony at Melbourne’s Federation... Read more |
Anthologist John Leonard (who edited Seven Centuries of Poetry in English; Australian Verse, an Oxford Anthology; New Music; and Contemporary Australian Poetry) has announced the... Read more |
Coles Myer shareholders have agreed to a proposal to re-brand the retailer as Coles Group Limited. While the new name will take effect immediately, stores... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced the launch of digical, a forum for online discussion about key issues on copyright issues for writers, publishers and... Read more |
Dymocks’ Booklover customer loyalty program has won a bronze award in the annual Australian Direct Marketing Awards. ‘Booklover has received recognition from ADMA before,’ Dymocks... Read more |
Dymocks has re-launched its website at www.dymocks.com.au, incorporating many new features based around the world-class Endeca search technology. The Dymocks site is the first Australian-based... Read more |
Footprint Books has acquired fellow distributor Astam Books. From 7 December 2006, most publishers’ lists that were available from Astam Books will be distributed by... Read more |
American economist and Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman has died of heart failure at the age of 94. The best known of Friedman’s many published works... Read more |
The 2007 Gourmand world cookbook awards will be held next year in Beijing from 4 April to 8 April. The five-day event includes cookbook exhibitions,... Read more |
A group of investors led by Ripplewood Holdings has agreed to acquire Reader’s Digest (RDA), subject to shareholder approval, in a sale expected to close... Read more |
It’s a case of too many memoirs, too few titles. This week there are two books in the top 10 bestsellers that share the same... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: a new audiobook device with built in player due in the UK in April; Howard... Read more |
BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine has commenced work on a special report into technology and innovation in the book industry, to be published in March 2007. The report... Read more |
As the festive season approaches, the Events Calendar is rapidly filling up with book festivals, book launches and, of course, Christmas parties. Events coming up... Read more |
As widely reported in the mainstream media, Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp media company owns HarperCollins, has announced the cancellation of plans to publish If... Read more |
Nicholas Marland has been named the winner in the ‘words’ category of this year’s Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYAs). Marland, whose ‘darkly humorous’ writing... Read more |
Children’s book author and illustrator Ursula Moray Williams has died at the age of 95. Williams was best known for her classic children’s book Adventures... Read more |
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