The WBN team will be hitting the phones later this week and early next to conduct our annual pre-Christmas survey. The survey will be published... Read more |
ABC Enterprises, the commercial division of the ABC, has appointmented Harcourt Education Australia as publisher of its educational products for distribution to the Australian education sector.... Read more |
Journalist and author Malcolm Knox has been appointed to the board of directors for Australian copyright management company Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Knox said in a... Read more |
Holger Ehling reports from the Guadalajra Book Fair: If you run a book fair and you manage to get three Nobel prize-winning writers to be... Read more |
Charts published by the Sydney Morning Herald last weekend alongside its book critics’ ‘books of the year’ selections offer an indication of 2006’s bestselling titles.... Read more |
The Copyright Amendment Bill was passed in the Senate on Friday 1 December, with amendments. Due to the amendments the bill will go back to... Read more |
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Company Last day of business First day of business Allen & Unwin... Read more |
Oxford University Press has announced that Melinda O’Donnell, previously secondary publishing manager at Thomson Learning Australia, has joined the company as secondary director. O’Donnell is... Read more |
Packer’s Lunch, Neil Chenoweth’s examination of the Australian power players of the ’90s (Allen & Unwin), has won this year’s Walkley Award for best nonfiction... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Rosemary Neil explores the dearth of Australian literature courses; Amazon expands its print-on-demand function; jail... Read more |
An e-book collection has won the prize for the best STM (science, technology and medicine) information product in the 2006 International Information Industry Awards held... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has sent the latest order of books (about 30 titles) destined for women’s centres and crèches at the Burunga and... Read more |
New Zealand authors Judith Binney, Patricia Grace and Vincent O’Sullivan are the winners of this year’s New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. The... Read more |
Australia will be the Focus Country at the 2007 Kolkata (formerly ‘Calcutta’) Book Fair. Eleven Australian authors will participate in events at the Kolkata fair,... Read more |
American writer, publisher and Dr Seuss-collaborator Phyllis Cerf Wagner has died at the age of 95. Wagner co-founded the Random House imprint Beginner Books with... Read more |
Elisabeth Holdsworth is the winner of the inaugural Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay for her work titled ‘An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come... Read more |
Last week the Public Lending Right annual report revealed Bryce Courtenay’s dominance in the library charts. This week he’s topped the bestseller charts with Sylvia,... Read more |
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