Following its acquisition of 75% of Melbourne-based travel publisher Lonely Planet (reported in a WBN special bulletin on Monday), BBC Worldwide has announced its intention to... Read more |
The inaugural Indigenous Literacy Day, held around the country on Wednesday 5 September, has raised more than $120,000, with some donations yet to be received. David... Read more |
Australian author Garth Nix has secured a seven-figure deal with HarperCollins in the US for North American rights to three new titles–including a prequel and... Read more |
Australian authors Sonya Hartnett and John Marsden and New Zealand writer Joy Cowley have been nominated for the 2008 Astrid Lindgren memorial Award. The world’s... Read more |
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest rights fair, officially starts next week on 10 October. This year’s Guest of Honour is the Catalan... Read more |
Lina Karpinsky, marketing coordinator for the Borders bookselling chain, was named the Australian Retailers Association’s Young Retailer of the Year within the corporate category for 2007. Karpinsky, who... Read more |
ABC Commercial hostsed its annual ABC Retail Conference in Sydney from 24 to 26 September. The three-day conference was attended by 160 delegates, including ABC... Read more |
Holtzbrinck, the parent of publisher Pan Macmillan, has reported a 7.5% increase in total revenue in 2006 to €2.24 billion (A$3.4 billion). The company, which... Read more |
Martin Hughes, a former Lonely Planet travel writer and former editor of The Big Issue, together with Graeme Wise, who set up The Big Issue... Read more |
Buyer wanted for Judith Wright’s homeThe chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Canberra is looking for a buyer for poet Judith Wright’s... Read more |
In news from our Around the World blog this week: Amazon launches digital music store Macmillan CEO leaves for Bloomsbury Perseus bid for PGW name... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Watermark Literary Muster, Camden Haven, NSW 2 – 6 October... Read more |
‘These guys know what they’re doing, they’ve made it successful so we just want to give them more power to make it bigger and better.’–BBC... Read more |
It’s probably neither an outstanding nor a wacky record, but the latest ‘Guinness Book’ – Guinness World Records 2008 has garnered top spot this week... Read more |
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