Due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday on Tuesday 6 November, next week’s WBN will be published on Thursday 8 November. Please ensure all material... Read more |
Book distribution business Gary Allen Pty Ltd has been sold to Tower Books for an undisclosed sum. Tower Books’ director Michael Rakusin said that there... Read more |
Random House Australia has announced a number of personnel changes across its publishing, sales and marketing divisions, including new roles for Carol Davidson, Gavin Schwarcz... Read more |
A number of big-name expat Australian authors will be returning home for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which has just announced its author line-up. Pater... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher Online has recently been included by online search engine Google as a news source for its popular Google News service. Google News is a... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA)/Thorpe-Bowker Victorian Christmas party and trivia night was held last night in Melbourne. Attracting around 60 people–booksellers, publishers and ABA and... Read more |
After announcing earlier this year that it would expand its successful buying group model to the UK, Leading Edge Books has now crossed the Tasman... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australia Council have welcomed developments in Western Australia and New South Wales intended to increase the study... Read more |
Author Susanne Gervay has been awarded the Lady Cutler Award for 2007 by the NSW branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The... Read more |
‘Careless’ wins Colin Roderick AwardCareless by Deborah Robertson (Picador) is the winner of this year’s Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of the... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Richard & Judy turn to children’s books Amazon sales soar, but... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: • Australian Copyright Council training sessions, Brisbane 5 November •... Read more |
Food and sport … much of the Australian population can resonate with either one. This is demonstrated in the bestseller charts this week with Geelong:... Read more |
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