The 2006 Books Alive campaign finished on 31 August, and ‘initial Books Alive 2006 sales figures indicate strong double-digit growth on last year, in excess... Read more |
Want to get the top 10 bestsellers and other charts faster? Now you don’t have to wait until Wednesday’s WBN. The�top 10�bestsellers, fastest movers and... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which runs from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 September;... Read more |
The Thunderbolt Kid is off like a shot from the blocks. Bill Bryon’s memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid dominated the weekend... Read more |
Australian author and journalist Michael Keon died on 22 May this year, aged 87. In his younger years, Keon moved with the crowd of artists... Read more |
Craig Scutella, owner of Unleash Books has told WBN that closure of the chain’s Fox Studios store in Moore Park, Sydney, is a result of... Read more |
In our Around the World blog this week Random agrees to refund readers of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, Penguin UK opts for serialisation... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 160 books that will appear in its 2006-2007 Kids’ Reading Guide. The publication, which will be available... Read more |
This year’s National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) ran from 28 August 3 September, with the associated Minister’s Awards for outstanding contributions to improving literacy and/or numeracy,... Read more |
Melbourne’s Technical Bookshop owed unsecured creditors an estimated $1.2 million when it went into voluntary administration in late August, according to an interim creditors’ report... Read more |
The winners of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards were announced at an awards ceremony last night. The winners are as follows: Fiction Book Award The... Read more |
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