Be one of the first to see The Reader starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, based on the book by Bernhard Schlink. As a special offer... Read more |
As part of a court-ordered process, Google Book Search is currently notifying authors, publishers and other rights holders worldwide, of their legal rights and options... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of former ABC Books staff members Brigitta Doyle, Belinda Bolliger and Jane Finemore to its new ABC Books division. Doyle,... Read more |
Hachette Australia has announced the appointment of Tegan Morrison to the role of children’s publisher. Morrison, who has been senior editor for children’s and young... Read more |
The New Zealand stationery and bookselling chain Paper Plus has announced the appointment of Joan Mackenzie to the position of group book manager. ‘We are... Read more |
Hachette Australia had a ‘vintage year’ in 2008, with sales up by 15%, managing director Malcolm Edwards told WBN. ‘Obviously, Stephenie Meyer had a lot... Read more |
The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) announced the finalists of the 2008 Australian Shadows Awards on Black Friday, February 13. Lee Battersby won the award,... Read more |
As previously reported in WBN, the new Australian Children’s Literature Alliance (ACLA) has been formed to promote children’s literature. The Alliance will seek a national children’s... Read more |
Castlemaine Festival literature program announcedThe program for the Castlemaine Festival has been announced. The literature component includes Cate Kennedy, Alex Miller, Judith Rodriguez, Julie Gittus,... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: redefine ‘the book,’ says TOC keynote US books sales down... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionJenny Darling & Associates has sold Spanish rights to The Zookeeper’s War (Steven Conte, Fourth Estate) to DeBolsillo (Mondadori) and... Read more |
‘I was reading a lot of Australian literary criticism and there was the complaint that Australians preferred film adaptations of Australian novels to the books... Read more |
On the back of the film The Reader, the book of the same name by Bernhard Schlink hits number one in the Highest New Entries... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Jerusalem International Book Fair, 15-20 February Closing date for nominations... Read more |
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill, writes: ‘McGraw-Hill Australia would like to pay tribute to the life of one of our authors, Professor Rob... Read more |
Australian Ken Rowe, known as a ‘literacy warrior’ and chair of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy, has died in Victoria’s Black Saturday... Read more |
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Jean Srnecz, senior vice president of merchandising for Baker & Taylor, has died.
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