Next week’s WBN (9 December) will be the last for 2009. The first WBN for 2010 will be 6 January 2010. Any news or advertisements... Read more |
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Public holidays include: Christmas Day: Friday 25 December 2009 Boxing Day: Saturday... Read more |
The Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, a key component in Melbourne successful bid for UNESCO City of Literature status, is to be named The... Read more |
Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan) has won the 2009 Walkley Nonfiction Book Award. The award, announced last Thursday 26 November, recognises ‘excellence in... Read more |
Where the Streets Had A Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah (Pan Macmillan) is the winner of the $2000 2009 Golden Inky award, voted on by readers of... Read more |
Pearson Australia Group has announced the appointment of Jenny Beresford as chief information officer (CIO) for the region. Beresford, who joins Pearson from the National... Read more |
UNSW Press has announced the appointment of Kathy Bail as chief executive, replacing Robin Derricourt. Bail, who has been editor of the Australian Financial Review... Read more |
Leading Edge Group has announced that Jayne Wasmuth will now remain in the role of general manager until late January, while a replacement is found.... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has awarded its 2009 ASA Medal to children’s author Hazel Edwards. Established in 2003, the biennial award recognises ‘an... Read more |
Victorian Amanda Wrangles has won the 2009 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto award, presented on Friday 17 November. Wrangles, a former hairdresser who only started... Read more |
Central Book Services will make ‘significant Australian content’ available to its ECO e-reader customers, through a new website at www.readwithoutpaper.com. In a special Christmas promotion,... Read more |
New online ebook retailer eBookBop has launched. The store at www.ebookbop.com.au has been developed by the recently formed Advantage Media Group. ‘We operate with less... Read more |
New online bookseller www.totallybooks.com.au officially launched on 1 December. The store, founded by managing director Rachael McKinney, is based in Sydney and will have an... Read more |
REDgroup Retail, owners of Borders in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, has reiterated that its stores remain ‘financially sound under private ownership’, following the announcement... Read more |
Dymocks Brisbane has reopened in new premises in the Q&A Building on the corner of Albert and Elizabeth Streets. The store, which opened to the... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has opened in Mackay. The store, which opened on 23 November, is located at the Sydney Street Markets and will be managed by... Read more |
Janine Nelson of Random House Australia was named 2009 Victorian Sales Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Assocaition (ABA) Victorian Branch Christmas Party... Read more |
The limited-edition giant atlas Earth, published by Millennium House, has won the ‘Best Atlas’ award at the 2009 International Cartographic Conference. ‘Millennium House is both... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced the appointment of Hardie Grant Publishing chief executive Sandy Grant as chair of its board. Grant, who has been... Read more |
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo has announced the first grants to be awarded by the recently created Readings Foundation. The Foundation, officially launched on the... Read more |
‘The Darwin Poems’ wins 2009 Wesley Michael Wright PrizeEmily Ballou has won the 2009 University of Melbourne/Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry for The Darwin... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Confusion as Borders UK enters administration Littell wins... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Allen & Uwnin has sold Lovesong (Alex Miller) in a pre-empt at Frankfurt Book Fair to HarperCollins Canada; Bulgarian-language rights... Read more |
‘We are currently working with a number of publishers to try to get more Australian content into the site, as we really want to make... Read more |
Authors on tour from December to March 2010: December Matthew Reilly, Macmillan (The Five Greatest Warriors) Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)... Read more |
Bestselling author Bryce Courtenay has made it to the top of both the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts this week with his new novel... Read more |
Peter Timms’ new book In Search of Hobart is being well-received and widely read on both sides of Bass Strait. The book looks at Hobart’s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Internet Marketing of Books and Ebooks workshop, Auckland, 2 December... Read more |
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Fantasy author Robert Holdstock has died, aged 61. Holdstock is best remembered for his ‘Ryhope Wood’ series, including the title Mythago Wood.
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