The board for the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (CBWI) has announced the appointment of Chrissy Sharp as director. The announcement comes after Caro... Read more |
The Perth Writers Festival 2009 was a ‘runaway success’, according to program manager Katherine Dorrington. ‘We are thrilled with how successful this year’s Perth Writers... Read more |
The shortlist for the second annual Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $35,000, has been announced. The titles in the running for the prize, which is open... Read more |
The shortlist for the National Biography Award 2009, worth $20,000, has been announced. From a record 58 entries in biographical and memoir writing, six were... Read more |
The shortlist for the ALS Gold Medal, Australia’s oldest literary award, has been announced for 2009. The titles in the running are: Her Father’s Daughter ... Read more |
Penguin has achieved a strong set of results, with profits up 26% to £93 million (A$206 million) and sales up seven percent to £903 million... Read more |
The book wholesaler Central Book Services (CBS) and digital printer On Demand have announced the launch of the joint initiative Central On Demand, a service... Read more |
Some of Australia’s most renowned authors and publishers will be participating in the second Australian Writers’ Week in Beijing and Chengdu, China from 16 to... Read more |
Technical and specialist bookshop Boffins Bookshop, in Perth, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Boffins was one of five bookshops in Perth’s West End when it... Read more |
Book City Tuncurry has changed its name to The Great Lakes Bookshop. The change of name at the store Howard and Kate Dixon have operated... Read more |
The Australian Industry Group has become the most recent body to lodge a Productivity Commission submission in favour of retaining the current laws pertaining to... Read more |
In response to last week’s story on the Australian Publishers Association (APA) survey of book prices, a bookseller writes … ‘Using the same standards of... Read more |
Koenig NSW Woman of the YearAuthor of Paper Cranes: A Mother’s Story of Hope, Courage and Determination (Exisle) Cheryl Koenig, has been named NSW Woman... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Agents Twitter themselves into trouble Borders US cuts over 700 staff... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionRandom House has sold Den of Wolves by Luke Devenish to Turkey. Agent Christopher Schelling has sold rights to Things... Read more |
‘If books are imported in commercial quantities to a value of more than $1000 then it is feasible to [charge consumers GST on the package].... Read more |
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry is this week’s ‘fastest mover’. Barry won the Costa Novel Award for this book which tells of a relationship... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Somerset Celebration of Literature, Mudgeeraba, QLD, 16-20 March Australian Writers’... Read more |
As reported in last week’s WBN, Kilmeny Niland passed away on 27 Febrary. Agent Tim Curnow writes: ‘Kilmeny and I first met in the early... Read more |
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American author Barbara Parker has died, aged 62. She wrote 12 mystery novels, including Suspicion of Innocence.
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