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WBN apologises for the delay in delivering this week’s newsletter. This was due to unforeseen technical difficulties. We appreciate your patience–WBN
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As reported in a WBN special bulletin last week, the shortlist for the Miles Franklin award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Breath (Tim... Read more |
Random House Australia has announced the publication date of Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol as 15 September, 2009. The announcement was made yesterday... Read more |
Final submissions to the Productivity Commission on its study of Australia’s book parallel importation laws have now been lodged, with the overwhelming majority of those... Read more |
Children’s authors took to the streets in Brisbane last week on Thursday 16 April, in protest against the ‘Coalition for Cheaper Books’, and its stance... Read more |
Nielsen BookScan has released sales figures for the first 12 weeks of 2009 (to 21 March), showing that the market grew by a very healthy... Read more |
WBN correspondent Lachlan Jobbins reports: Despite grim economic forecasts and slightly lower registrations (The Bookseller reported registrations down by 2% on last year), the Australians... Read more |
Simon & Schuster reported a sales decline of 3% in 2008, to US$857.7 million (AU$1216 million), according to Publisher’s Weekly, though fourth-quarter revenues were slightly... Read more |
Readings to open at SLVAs reported in a WBN special bulletin last week, Readings Books, Music & Film announced that it is to open a... Read more |
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in a big update this week: firebombers plead guilty to attacking publisher’s house Pulitzer... Read more |
FictionScribe Publications’ fiction acquisitions editor, Aviva Tuffield, has acquired actor Katie Wall’s debut novel I Say Tomato, a romantic comedy about an Australian actress trying... Read more |
‘Whatever authors want, this is old-fashioned protectionism that helps producers by penalising consumers. The book industry is lucky the Productivity Commission was uncharacteristically kind. End... Read more |
Some big names (and none ending in Meyer) are out in force on the top of the charts this week. Wilbur Smith, he of many... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair, 17-26 April World Book and... Read more |
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US author James D Houston author of Continental Drift, Snow Mountain Passage and Farewell to Manzanar has died, aged 75.
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Novelist J G Ballard has died, aged 78. His novels included Crash, Empire of the Sun, The Wind from Nowhere and The Drought.
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