If you haven’t yet discovered all the useful new features of the online WBN, why not grab hold of a FREE copy of Weekly Book... Read more |
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 |
International publisher Parragon has announced the opening of its Australasian business, based in Melbourne and headed by Ian Ashmore. Ashmore, who formerly headed the publishing... Read more |
Limelight Press has announced that it will close at the end of 2006, after six years of operation. Jayne Denshire, who founded the press together... Read more |
Literary agent Lyn Tranter has described as ‘gutless’ the decision by Scholastic Australia to cancel publication of Army of the Pure by author John Dale.... Read more |
A pre-election proposal from the newly re-elected Labor state government in Victoria promises a $9 million package ‘to support writers, literary organisations and festivals’ in... Read more |
The 2005-06 annual report of the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme has been released, showing detailed figures on the recipients of over $7 million in... Read more |
The new State Library of Queensland building at Brisbane’s South Bank was opened to the public on 25 November. The refurbished five-level building includes an... Read more |
The eighth annual Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow, held at the Leichhardt Town Hall in Sydney last weekend was ‘a great success’, according to Irina... Read more |
This year’s NSW book trade Christmas party was held by the NSW branch of the Australian Booksellers Association on 22 November in Pyrmont, Sydney and... Read more |
Following last week’s announcement that an investor group led by Ripplewood Holdings had agreed to acquire Reader’s Digest, managing director of Reader’s Digest Australia Paul... Read more |
John Wiley & Sons was named Supplier of the Year at this year’s annual Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ABCA) conference, held in Brisbane on 16... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Ian Jack to step down as editor of editor of UK literary journal Granta; a... Read more |
This week’s bestselling title benefited from a little unexpected media attention. Schapelle Corby’s memoir My Story raced to the top of the charts amid reports... Read more |
American novelist William Diehl, author of the bestselling legal thriller Primal Fear (Vintage), has died at the age of 81. Diehl began his writing career... Read more |
Packer’s Lunch by Neil Chenoweth (Allen & Unwin) and Asbestos House by Gideon Haigh (Scribe) are the two titles shortlisted for the 2006 Blake Dawson... Read more |
The annual general meeting of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) was held on the weekend of 18-19 November. ‘Major successes of the last... Read more |
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