WBN subscribers, please note that the email address you receive your WBN from has now changed. The new email address is wbn@emailthorpe.com.au. Please add this... Read more
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The Productivity’s Commission’s final report on Australia’s book parallel importation laws was delivered to recently appointed assistant treasurer Nick Sherry yesterday. A Commission spokesperson told... Read more
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WBN understands the Tower Books warehouse, based in Sydney, is due to close this month, with stock to move to the Bookwise warehouse in South Australia.... Read more
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Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Kelly Brough as its new global online director. Taking over the position from Andy Conroy, who was seconded... Read more
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The shortlist for the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2009 has been announced. Over 200 entries were received for this year’s awards. The full shortlist for... Read more
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Central Book Services has announced it has been contracted by Gardners Books, a UK distributor, to supply Australian titles. The agreement will cover only those... Read more
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Readings Books, Music and Film has announced the creation of The Readings Foundation, established by Readings managing director Mark Rubbo to support ‘Victorian individuals and... Read more
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Siobhan Dowd has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Carnegie medal for children’s literature; and Catherine Rayner the recipient of the Greenaway medal... Read more
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Random House has created free digital material that booksellers can use in email and website campaigns, beginning with the countdown to Dan Brown’s The Lost... Read more
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New Zealand author Charlotte Grimshaw is among the authors shortlisted for the 2009 Cork City Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, for her collection Singularity (Vintage).... Read more
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True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet (Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin, ABC Books) and Tuart Dwellers (Jan Ramage, illus.... Read more
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New Zealand retailer The Warehouse goes online The Warehouse is offering online shopping within New Zealand, starting with books, DVDs, CDs, game software and gift... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World section in the past week: 2009 Bulwer-Lytton winner announced Pearson invests US$30 million in India Wikipedia... Read more
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FictionText Publishing has acquired Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder, to be published in November. Australian Jeremy Chambers’ first book, The Vintage and... Read more
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‘Whether it is the laws that protected authors and restricted the price or distribution of texts, traditional aesthetic categories and literary genres–the very structures used... Read more
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It’s great to see a book from a relatively small publisher get top spot in the charts. IAD Press’ Living Alongside the Animals Anangu Way... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Kids and YA Literature Festival, NSW Writers’ Centre, 4-5 July... Read more
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H B Gilmour, veteran publishing professional and bestselling author, has died, aged 69. She wrote The Trade, So Long, Daddy and The Muppets Take Manhattan,... Read more
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