Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Wednesday 25 April, next week’s WBN will be sent on Thursday 26 April. However, the deadline for... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Award will be announced tomorrow, Thursday 19 April. WBN will send subscribers a special bulletin as soon as... Read more |
The books shortlisted for this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced yesterday at a ceremony hosted by the Governor of Victoria David... Read more |
An article on Harry Potter discounting that appeared in the ‘QWeekend’ magazine of Queensland’s Courier Mail on Saturday has raised the ire of booksellers nationwide... Read more |
State and territory attorneys-general have agreed to a request by federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock to investigate how they can more closely restrict material that advocates... Read more |
The Australian arm of John Wiley & Sons celebrated its parent company’s 200th birthday at a special celebratory dinner last night at Brisbane’s Marriott Hotel.... Read more |
Thorpe-Bowker has launched another supplement to Bookseller+Publisher magazine with the first issue of Innovation+Technology (‘I+T‘), which is being distributed with the April/May issue of Bookseller+Publisher.... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a new Publishers’ Career Development Fund that will offer $50,000 in grants each year. The fund will offer publishers... Read more |
The Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) has announced it will offset all carbon emissions from this year’s festival, as well as introducing a ‘range of initiatives... Read more |
A potential takeover bid for Funtastic has been called off. Talks between Funtastic’s major shareholder, childcare provider ABC Learning, and ‘an unnamed third party’ have... Read more |
Peter Rose, editor of the Melbourne-based literary magazine Australian Book Review (ABR), has announced that financial management business Ord Minnett is the magazine’s new and... Read more |
As announced in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, Peter Carey is among the 15 authors on the judges’ list of contenders for the second... Read more |
The rights to Gregory David Roberts’ autobiographical epic Shantaram and a new book, The Mountain Shadow, have been purchased by Pan Macmillan, where they will... Read more |
The 2007 Angus & Robertson Top 100 Book List was released on Tuesday with the ‘Harry Potter’ series taking out the top spot, followed by... Read more |
In the forthcoming episode of the ABC’s ‘First Tuesday Book Club’, to be screened on 1 May, the following feature titles will be announced: The Raw Shark Texts... Read more |
The 10 winning works in this year’s ‘One Book Many Brisbanes’ short story competition were announced by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman on 11 April.... Read more |
State and territory education ministers and the federal minister for education Julie Bishop have negotiated a deal that will see all states and territories develop... Read more |
The 2007 London Book Fair (LBF) is currently underway. Early reports suggest that the new venue at Earls Court has been received much more warmly... Read more |
The winners of the annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday at a luncheon at Columbia University. Books honoured in the Letters, Drama and Music section... Read more |
The six titles shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction were announced in London yesterday. The shortlisted titles are: Half of a Yellow... Read more |
Second Life, the ‘virtual world’ that is currently one of the most popular sites on the internet, has announced the inaugural Second Life Book Fair... Read more |
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has supported a case filed against China at the World Trade Organisation by the United States, which includes allegations of... Read more |
UK-based book wholesaler Gardners has announced that it will expand its services to include a ‘digital warehouse’. The digital warehouse will allow publishers to link... Read more |
Veteran British publisher and bookseller John Calder has announced that he has chosen Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini of Alma Books to take over his... Read more |
The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) Project has announced that it has passed a ‘major milestone’ following a recent meeting in London. ACAP is a... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Da Vinci Code appeal fails Sterling in Vietnam Second round of... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the London Book Fair, which finishes up on 18 April the... Read more |
The kids are reclaiming the charts this week, with the sixth Specky Magee title (released to coincide with the kick-off of the 2007 footy season)... Read more |
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, a hero of the 1970s counter-culture, best known for his anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage), has died of brain injuries after... Read more |
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