It’s that time of the year again! Over the next week WBN will be hitting the phones to conduct our annual pre-Christmas survey, speaking to as... Read more |
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 |
The Productivity Commission today released its issues paper on ‘copyright restrictions on the parallel importation of books’, as part of its study commissioned by the... Read more |
David Malouf’s The Complete Stories (Random House) is the winner of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award. The award, worth $110,000, was announced in Perth on... Read more |
Christopher Koch has been awarded the 2008 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature (‘The Nib’) for his novel The Memory Room (Vintage). This is the... Read more |
Berkelouw Books held a soft opening for its newest Sydney store last Thursday. The Newtown store, in Sydney’s inner west, is the eighth outlet in... Read more |
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced ‘licensing revenue of $107 million alongside payments of more than $90 million to copyright owners’. The agency also... Read more |
The Public Lending Right (PLR) Committee has released its annual report, showing it approved annual payments of over $7 million for the financial year 2007-08.... Read more |
Melbourne University Bookshop (MUB) has announced that it has acquired Standish Prideaux & Pye (SPP) Medical Bookshop. The acquisition will take effect from 5 January... Read more |
Cambridge University Press has reported organic sales growth of 9% for the financial year ended 30 April 2008. When the acquisition of the Japanese wholesaler... Read more |
The shortlist for the biennial Tasmanian Book Prize has been announced. In the running for the $25,000 prize, awarded to the best book with Tasmanian... Read more |
The program for Tasmanian arts festival Ten Days on the Island, which runs from 27 March to 5 April, was launched yesterday. The festival, which... Read more |
Dymocks Camberwell moves into new centreDymocks Camberwell has moved into the new retail centre The Well in Burke Road, Camberwell in Melbourne. The retail complex,... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Random US freezes pensions U Minn Press reissues entire backlist... Read more |
‘The thoughts behind this issues paper come from people who obviously do not read Australian authors, have contempt for their works and would prefer all... Read more |
It’s that time of year again when that hefty tome, the Guinness World Records (2009) boldly makes its first appearance on top of the charts.... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA (Victoria) and Thorpe-Bowker Christmas party, Melbourne, 26 November Moscow International... Read more |
American poet Donald Finkel has died aged 79. His volumes of poems included A Joyful Noise, What Manner of Beast and Not So the Chairs:... Read more |
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