As first reported in a WBN Special Bulletin, the shortlisted titles in this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards have... Read more |
Educational publishers have hit back at the recent Australian Society of Authors report on their sector, with one publisher describing it as ‘long on overblown... Read more |
Malcolm Neil has been appointed as the new CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA). Neil has worked as a publishers rep; was the manager... Read more |
The 9th national conference of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, to be held in Melbourne from 2 to 4 of May, will be opened... Read more |
Hachette Livre’s parent company, Lagardere, has reported a ‘fine performance’ for 2007, with earnings before interest and tax up by 9.4%. Locally, the managing director... Read more |
Feather Man, poet Rhyll McMaster’s debut novel (Brandl & Schlesinger), has won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award. Founded by the late ABC film critic John Hinde... Read more |
Pacific Rim Voices has announced the winners of the 12th annual Kiriyama Prize. New Zealand author Lloyd Jones’ novel Mister Pip (Text/Peng NZ) is this... Read more |
The winner of this year’s ABC Fiction Award is Adelaide-based high-school teacher Kain Massin for his novel God for the Killing. God for the Killing... Read more |
Anita Heiss has been elected as the chair of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Heiss is the award-winning author of a wide range of... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched an education and advocacy group for graphic novel writers and artists. The ‘Comics/Graphic Novels Portfolio’ will ‘actively... Read more |
Six ‘wonderfully diverse’ titles have been shortlisted for the $20,000 National Biography Award 2008, the State Library of NSW announced today. The shortlisted books are:... Read more |
Online book sales are flourishing compared other areas of online retail, but booksellers could be doing better still, according to a new report. In a... Read more |
The contemporary fiction festival held last weekend by the NSW Writers’ Centre was ‘a wonderful success,’ the Centre’s acting director Arabella Lee has told WBN.... Read more |
Department store Myer and discount supermarket ALDI have both announced that they will offer staff paid maternity leave for the first time. ALDI will offer... Read more |
Dymocks’s seven-year-old charity arm, the Dymocks Literacy Foundation, is to donate 2,652 books to ten pre-schools and special needs schools along the Gold Coast. Titles... Read more |
Melbourne’s Reader’s Feast Bookshop has stepped back in time in its role as the official bookseller to the State Library of Victoria’s (SLV) new exhibition... Read more |
In the lead-up to this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the trade is again warned to by wary of approaches from Austrian-based company Construct Data Verlag... Read more |
Clark wins ABR poetry prizeRoss Clark has been announced as the winner of the fourth Australian Book Review (ABR) poetry prize his poem ‘Danger: Lantana.’... Read more |
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Agents ‘lazy’ about new media rights Tintin heads for the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna, 31 March-3 April Deadline for... Read more |
The rhyming maestro Dr Seuss is back in the charts with Horton Hears a Who, number one in the Fastest Mover chart this week. For... Read more |
The University of Queensland Press writes: UQP would like to offer their condolences to the family and friends of Alan Collins. Alan Collins, who passed... Read more |
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Robert Fagles, the Princeton University professor emeritus who was famous for his translations of Homer and Virgil, died on March 26. He was 74.
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