In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine: Angela Meyer rounds up Father’s Day titles, and also food and drink titles Matthia Dempsey reports on this... Read more
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As reported in a WBN special bulletin yesterday, the Productivity Commission’s final report on Australia’s book parallel importation laws has been released, recommending the government... Read more
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Tom Griffiths and Robert Kenny have jointly been awarded the 2008 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, for their books Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to... Read more
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The ALS Gold Medal for 2008 has been awarded to Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap (A&U). The judges said of The Slap: ‘There is a raw... Read more
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The longlist for the inaugural John Button Prize, worth $20,000, has been announced. The longlist features 31 titles, representing Australia’s best writing on politics and... Read more
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Susannah McFarlane, former co-owner and publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont, has announced the launch of her new company LemonFizz Media (LFM). The business, which McFarlane... Read more
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HarperCollins has announced that it is ‘restructuring the customer service and credit teams’ at the Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) Moss Vale Distribution Centre. The... Read more
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Larissa Behrendt has been named Indigenous Person of the Year during the recent NAIDOC Week. The award was announced at the NAIDOC Week ball in... Read more
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Melbourne University Publishing has announced its participation in a new series of ‘born digital’ fully interactive ebooks, designed to be read on screen. Universitas 21... Read more
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The New South Wales Branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced it will be holding a two-day conference in Sydney on... Read more
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Carolyn Lewis, Spencer Levine and Keely O’Shannessy have been announced as the shortlisted designers for the inaugural Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award.... Read more
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Barry to deliver Sydney PEN lectureMax Barry will give a lecture on ‘risk’ as part of the Sydney PEN Voices project, on 15 July in... Read more
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Among the stories recently added to our Around the World blog (with many more to come!) Google settlement: what will happen if it’s rejected? Anderson’s... Read more
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FictionNicola Barr at the Susijn Agency has sold Commonwealth rights, excluding Australia, to Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming, to Harvill Secker. The title... Read more
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‘What does the recommendation to review subsidies "with a view to better targeting of cultural externalities" mean. Anyone?’–Meanjin twitter feed, approximately 4.30pm yesterday.
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Snakes alive! Medusa by Clive Cussler gets top gong this week in the Highest New Entries chart. The title doesn’t relate to snakes however, but... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney PEN presents: Max Barry on Risk – Sydney, 15... Read more
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Exiled author Vasily Aksyonov, who left the Soviet Union in 1980 and lived in the US for more than two decades, has died, aged 76.... Read more
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