Steven Amsterdam was announced as the overall winner of the 36th Age Book of the Year Award at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards have been announced. The winning and honour books are: Book of the Year:... Read more
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Books Alive 2009 starts today, 26 August, and runs to 30 September. A free guide, 50 Books You Can’t Put Down, has been distributed to... Read more
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Melbourne bookseller Leanne Hall has won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, with her debut novel This is Shyness, announced on... Read more
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Peter Dart, information services director at Pearson, is leaving the business to pursue other interests. Dart, who has been with the business for 25 years,... Read more
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Earth, published by Millenium House, has been named the world’s most detailed atlas, winning both the Best Book Based Award and the Best Overall Map... Read more
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The longlist for the third annual Inky Awards has been announced by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, via its youth reading website... Read more
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The shortlist for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards has been announced. Last year’s Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript winner, Amy Barker, launched her debut novel Omega... Read more
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REDgroup Retail–owners of Angus & Robertson, Whitcoulls and Borders–has announced the appointment of former Dymocks New Zealand general manager Andrew Howard to the position of... Read more
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Readings’ 40th anniversary was celebrated on Monday night at Experimedia in the State Library of Victoria. Alongside the celebrations, Readings has launched an anthology–Readings and Writings: 40... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) are continuing their lobbying efforts in Canberra ahead of an expected Cabinet decision on the... Read more
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As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) added to its line-up a special debate on the Productivity Commission... Read more
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The winners of the 9th annual Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards have been announced. The Davitt Awards are for the best crime novels and true... Read more
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The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc.) is demanding action from the NZ government on the Google Book Settlement as the 4 September... Read more
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Rob McMenemy, senior vice president of Egmont UK, USA and Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) in Australia, and member of the HGE board, has been appointed... Read more
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Random House New Zealand receive environmental accreditationRandom House New Zealand has received Gold-level accreditation from Enviromark, an environmental accreditation scheme. The Random House NZ office... Read more
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‘It’s a nonsense to use the music industry as a shining example of what happens if you introduce parallel imports. Oh, and a warning if... Read more
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Authors on tour from August to November: August Gareth Morgan, Scribe (Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who’s Right About Climate Change?) Rupert Isaacson, Text Publishing... Read more
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In rights news this week: NonfictionBlack Inc. has sold Chinese translation rights to John Hirst’s The Shortest History of Europe, dramatic. Children’s Scholastic has sold... Read more
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The ‘red edged’ version of the ever-popular Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer has been released, and that, it seems, is enough reason to propel it... Read more
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A plethora of Irvine Welsh’s old tales–from magazines, articles, out-of-print anthologies and the like–have been brought together to make a new book of old stories,... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: CBCA Book Week, 22-28 August Lu Rees Archives of Australian... Read more
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Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Bologna dates change Sony teams with US indies; announces Epub... Read more
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