The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the outcome of a strategic review, which will include the redundancies of two staff from the association’s Sydney... Read more |
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced the creation of a web application that allows iPhone and iPod touch users to browse e-book extracts and the option to purchase the... Read more |
The Australian Literary Agents Association (ALAA) has written a letter to the Prime Minister arguing against any change to Australia’s territorial copyright rules. The letter,... Read more |
The 2008 Books Alive campaign started last Sunday, 27 July, with the public release of the 50 Books You Can’t Put down booklet and this... Read more |
The first day of this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, held over the weekend at the Byron Bay Beach Resort, was cancelled due to flooding... Read more |
Some changes to this year’s Books@MIFF event left some publishers WBN spoke to a little shaken. For their public pitching sessions, held in front of... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best first fiction A... Read more |
‘Mr Paparazzi’ recalledPenguin has announced a recall of Mr Paparazzi by Darren Lyons (Viking, ISBN 9780670029563) due to ‘impending legal action’ (see Classified). Melbourne writer... Read more |
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: students scanning textbooks to file-share healthy half-yearly result for Pearson... Read more |
‘I have bemoaned the price of books in Australia ever since I arrived here, but now I understand the implications I’ll buy from Australian bookshops... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Entries close for Hawkesbury River Writers’ Prose Fiction Competition, 31... Read more |
All those folks who have been waiting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to come out in paperback have rocketed said book to the... Read more |
Children’s author and painter Richard Kidd has died, aged 56. His books included Almost Famous Daisy!, Monsieur Thermidor: A Fantastic Fishy Tale and The Giant... Read more |
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Randy Pausch, computer scientist and author of the bestseller The Last Lecture has died, he was 47.
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