As announced in a WBN special bulletin last Friday, last week saw the presentation of both the inaugural Australian Book Industry Academy (ABIA) awards and... Read more |
The ABIA awards dinner last week also saw the official launch of the 2006 Books Alive campaign by Senator Rod Kemp, the Minister for Arts... Read more |
Australian Publishers Association (APA) CEO Maree McCaskill has written to Attorney-general Philip Ruddock and to all state attorneys-general expressing ‘grave concern’ about plans to tighten... Read more |
The Canadian Consulate General, in conjunction with the Australia Council (OzCo), is funding the pilot of an Australian/Canadian publisher exchange as an extension of OzCo’s... Read more |
The 2006 Retail Technology Expo, to be held in Melbourne in September, will showcase radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Visitors to the expo will be... Read more |
Emily Maguire’s debut novel Taming the Beast (Brandl & Schlesinger) has been included on the longlist for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize. Named in honour... Read more |
The International Digital Object Identifier Foundation, which manages the worldwide Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registry, has announced a number of fresh milestones. A DOI is... Read more |
Print-on-demand (PoD) company BookSurge Australia has now ceased trading, but its former business development manager Michael Blair has established a new business called BookPOD. ‘BookPOD... Read more |
With Father’s Day only a month away, several blokey titles have crept into this week’s bestseller charts. The blokiest of them all is Conn and... Read more |
New Zealand writer Nigel Cox died on Friday 28 July. Victoria University Press writes: One of New Zealand’s best writers, Nigel was recognised at the... Read more |
UK fantasy writer David Gemmell died on Friday 28 July, two weeks after undergoing heart bypass surgery, according to his publisher Random House. Gemmell was... Read more |
The official program of the Age Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been released, appearing online and as a supplement in the Age newspaper on 29... Read more |
In the lead up to the release of the official festival program in the Australian newspaper on 5 August, the Brisbane Writers Festival has released... Read more |
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), parent company of Bookwise International in Australia and New Zealand, has launched a new division, Bluefin Global Logistics, to provide ‘third-party... Read more |
Australian romance author Marion Lennox has won her second Rita award, with Romance Writers of America members voting her novel Princess of Convenience (Harlequin Mills... Read more |
Following the announcement from Random House Australia that it will now represent BBC Books in Australia as part of the Random House Group portfolio, BBC... Read more |
The 2006/07 board of Booksellers New Zealand was elected at the board’s annual general meeting, held at the New Zealand Booksellers Conference in Auckland on... Read more |
The Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) elected two new members to the council at its annual general meeting in Auckland on 23 July.... Read more |
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Harold Joseph Davis, co-founder of Trio Bookbinders and the printing firm H&K Davis, has died in Melbourne, aged 77.
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