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 |
A lost masterpiece rescued and rediscovered … be one of the first to see restored Australian classic Wake in Fright. As a special offer for... Read more |
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Thursday night, Tim Winton has been announced as the 2009 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award... Read more |
The 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were presented last night, Tuesday 23 June, at a gala event at Sydney’s Sofitel, hosted by Tara Moss. The... Read more |
Christos Tsiolkas was announced on Monday night as the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2009 Booksellers’ Choice Award for his multiple prize-winning novel The Slap... Read more |
While the Productivity Commission is in the final stages of preparing its report on Australia’s parallel importation laws, due to be delivered to government on 30 June,... Read more |
RedGroup Retail , which operates Angus & Robertson, Whitcoulls, Borders ANZ, Supanews and Calendar Club, has announced that the process of integrating its separate businesses... Read more |
Independent Australian publisher Hardie Grant Books has announced the launch of a new company in London. Jane Aspden, former managing director of Mitchell Beazley, will... Read more |
Albert Ullin, the founder of iconic children’s bookshop The Little Bookroom, was presented with a lifetime achievement award on Monday night at the Australian Booksellers... Read more |
The three-day ABA conference, held in Manly, Sydney, from Sunday 21 June to Tuesday 23 June, was noticeably quieter than last year, though general feedback... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2009/10 Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their seventh year,... Read more |
The winners of the 2009 Galley Club Awards have been announced. The awards, in their 33rd year, celebrate excellence in book and magazine production. The... Read more |
Stuart Beattie, co-writer of the epic Australia, will make his directorial debut with John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began, first published by Pan in 1994... Read more |
Phillip Gwynne’s novel The Build Up is to become a 13-part drama series, filmed in the Northern Territory by TMG Media for SBS Television. The... Read more |
ABA appointments for Connolly, Page and Whitmont At this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) AGM, held on Monday at the ABA national conference in Sydney,... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Tools of Change for Publishing meets Frankfurt OUP reference launches... Read more |
‘There was a small-group accelerated learning event at the station for the word was networked … or something’–Don Watson translates the first line of Banjo... Read more |
What is it about people these days and their obsession with vampires? As well as Stephenie Meyer claiming her usual top positions in the Bestseller charts... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Copyright Council–2009 Training program, 23-26 June, Sydney The Future... Read more |
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