WBN subscribers, please note that the email address you receive your WBN from will change in coming weeks. The new email address will be wbn@emailthorpe.com.au. ... Read more |
UWA Publishing is the new name and imprint replacing The University of Western Australia Press, based in Claremont, Western Australia. UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White... Read more |
DA Information Services has announced it has acquired The Foreign Language Bookshop’s library division. The division, now called Languages Direct, supplies LOTE (Languages Other Than English)... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a study which CEO Maree McCaskill said showed the Australian ‘domestic book market is in reality priced cheaper... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that Meg Smith of the American Booksellers Association is making a special appearance at this years ABA conference... Read more |
Dymocks and Hachette Children’s Books have partnered in a new literacy initiative, Books Before Bedtime. The initiative aims to get parents and children in a... Read more |
Doris Mousdale, former retail business manager for Dymocks New Zealand’s head office, is to open her own bookstore, Anthology, on Teed Street, Newmarket, in August.... Read more |
Bologna drops to three days in 2010Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2010 will drop from four to three days, reports Publisher’s Weekly. Fair manager Roberta... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Debut author wins A$175,000 Impac Prize US ebook sales up... Read more |
In rights news this week Fremantle Press has sold the Italian-language rights to The Children’s House of Belsen (Hetty Verolme) to Citta Aperta. UWA Publishing... Read more |
‘For writers themselves, they really do crave a place where they can go and meet and talk and be pulled out of isolation. That’s why... Read more |
James Patterson and Michael Connolly duel with Stephenie Meyer this week on top of the Bestsellers chart. Patterson’s Swimsuit is at number one and Connolly’s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Miles Franklin Literary Award winner announced, 18 June View from... Read more |
American journalist and author Fleur Cowles has died, aged 101. As well as being editor of Flair magazine, she wrote; Bloody Precedent, Friends and Memories... Read more |
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Beat poet and novelist Harold Norse has died, aged 92. He wrote experimental cut-up novel Beat Hotel and many poems.
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Writer and teacher Suzanne Peterson has died, aged 64. Her works included Harry’s Child, which she wrote when she was 19, and Crying in the... Read more |
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