As reported in a WBN special bulletin this morning, Competition Minister Craig Emerson has announced ‘the Government has not accepted the Productivity Commission’s recommendation to... Read more |
Beverley Farmer is the winner of this year’s $25,000 Patrick White Literary Award. ‘Farmer is not a prolific writer but rather an intense, meditative and... Read more |
The PMP printing group, which acquired the Scribo distribution business under its Gordon & Gotch subsidiary earlier this year, will launch a new retail website... Read more |
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Walkley Nonfiction Book Award have been announced. In the running for the award are: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg,... Read more |
Penguin New Zealand publishing director Geoff Walker has said The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera (Raupo) will not be withdrawn from sale, following the author’s... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced it will be responsible for sales and distribution of Black Dog Books titles from 1 February 2010. ‘New titles publishing from... Read more |
Social networking book site Booktagger has launched a new affiliate program that will reward users whose recommendations lead to a book sale. ‘Community members recommend... Read more |
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) held its annual national conference last week in Brisbane. The conference, which ran from 4 to 6 November at... Read more |
Lorraine McGee-Sippel is the winner of the 2009 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. McGee-Sippel is the author of... Read more |
Canberra to host Spring Poetry FestivalThe ACT Writers Centre will host a Spring Poetry Festival this weekend from 13 to 15 November. The festival will... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon launches ‘Kindle for PC’ app Google Settlement extension... Read more |
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House... Read more |
‘Well, we’ll just start drinks early I guess’–Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) president Graeme Connolly after a presentation on the parallel importation debate failed to... Read more |
Fantasy fans will be happy that Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm has reached number one in the Highest New Entries and number... Read more |
Peter Carey continues his reign of the Most Mentioned chart in MX this week. His new book Parrot and Olivier in America has been receiving... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Information evening for the Professional Writing and Editing course at... Read more |
Author Esther Hautzig has died, aged 79. She wrote The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia as well as A Gift for Mama and A... Read more |
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