Publishers/distributors are asked to advise WBN of their Christmas closing dates by Friday 28 November 2008. A full list will appear once only in WBN... Read more
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Following the release of the terms of reference for its parallel importation study the Productivity Commission has announced a deadline of 20 January 2009 for... Read more
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Hachette Australia has announced the retirement of Helen Chamberlin, publisher of the Lothian Children’s Books imprint. Chamberlin, who has been with Hachette since Lothian Books... Read more
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A Sydney version of Melbourne’s well-known Hill of Content bookstore will be opened by Collins Booksellers in Balmain in early December. Collins Booksellers managing director... Read more
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Australian author John Hughes is one of 20 authors longlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize, worth £50,000 (A$115,000). The prize, run by the University of... Read more
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Australian and New Zealand authors are well represented on this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist. Among those listed are Steven Carroll; J M... Read more
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The 2009 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize has gone to Jenny Pattrick. The prize is worth NZ$100,000 (A$85,000) and involves travel and accommodation in France... Read more
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The YABBAs (Young Australian Best Book Award) were announced this week in Victoria. Best picture storybook went to Uno’s Garden (Graeme Base, Viking); fiction for... Read more
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The State Library of Victoria has launched the Summer Read program for 2008. A selection of 20 titles which celebrate the diversity of Victorian writing... Read more
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Book and newspaper sales up 20.5% on 2007Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for September indicate books are bucking the flat national retail trend. While... Read more
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Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Initial court approval for Google settlement Prepare for the ‘either/and’... Read more
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‘As such a dominant player in the online world, Google will now occupy a unique gateway position that, if abused, could easily create a de... Read more
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A familiar street name (to Melbournians at any rate) and now book is atop the Highest New Entries chart this week–Lygon St by Michael Harden.... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA (NSW)/publishers Christmas party, 19 November Moscow International Book Fair,... Read more
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(8/6/1921 – 15/11/2008) Penguin Group Australia writes: ‘His many friends and admirers at Penguin Group (Australia) noted with sorrow the passing of Ivan Southall in... Read more
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Fred Newman, co-founder of Publishing News and the British Book Awards has died, aged 76.
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