Bookseller+Publisher magazine and Bookseller+Publisher Online/WBN regularly survey our readers to ensure that your trade publications are relevant and useful. For the first time, we have... Read more |
The Brumby Group has announced its acquisition of Bloomings Books, which wholesales and distributes a range of gardening, botanical and natural history books, as well... Read more |
The nature photographer and publisher Steve Parish has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list. Parish, who... Read more |
Australian doctor, author and euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke was detained by New Zealand customs officers at Auckland airport last week. Nitschke was in NZ... Read more |
The shortlist of nominees for the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature has been announced. The biennial awards, with total prize money of $130,000, have... Read more |
Curtin University in Western Australia will launch the Elizabeth Jolley Research Collection later this week. The online collection will showcase the life and work of... Read more |
Following last week’s announcement of the launch of Central Book Services’ stock consolidation service, Seekmedia has contacted WBN to remind the trade that it offers... Read more |
The Macquarie Dictionary has announced its ‘word of the year’ for 2007: ‘Pod-slurping.’ Pod-slurping, officially listed as a noun, is the downloading of large quantities... Read more |
Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next book to be featured in her influential book club will be A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).... Read more |
Max Ell’s Bazaar Books closesMax Ell’s Bazaar Books, located in Sydney’s Roselands, has closed after more than 30 years of trading. The store, founded by the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference 11-13 February, New... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kolkakta Book Fair again in turmoil Diamond Dagger award for Sue... Read more |
The fastest mover this week, also coming in at number three in the bestsellers, is Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook Deceptively Delicious (yes she’s married to comedian... Read more |
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Margaret Truman Daniel, the daughter of US President Harry S Truman and author of best-selling biographies and mysteries, has died in Chicago, she was 83.
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