Monday, 2 December 2013
‘The Book Circle’ will return in 2014. Publishers are now invited to submit local and international author suggestions for episodes going to air from February through to July. A planning meeting...

Monday, 2 December 2013
Universal Publishers Pty Ltd (Hardie Grant Explore) will cease distribution of Insight and Berlitz products from 28 February 2014. Authorised returns will be accepted by our distributor Random House until...

Monday, 2 December 2013
Rachael McDiarmid has left James Bennett. Please direct future enquiries to your usual contact or to Nada Stanojlovic nada@bennett.com.au or 02 8988 5064

Thursday, 28 November 2013
Nelson Cengage, the Schools Division of Cengage Learning Australia, are happy to announce that they will be working in partnership with Alan Sadler to publish and distribute his new senior...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Published posthumously by Arbon Publishing, Murray Rose's inspirational book Life Is Worth Swimming featured on ABC TV’s Australian Story on Monday 11th November, which won its timeslot with 1.5million Australians...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Malcom O’Brien has left James Bennett and can now be contacted on 0403 48 77 88 or mal@dmcpr.com.au

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Kill Your Darlings has gone west, relocating to offices at The Idea Collective in Footscray. Please direct all future correspondence – including book samples, invoices and returns – to our...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
New address for Sally Bird, Calidris Literary Agency - as from Monday 25th November 2013: PO Box 99 Castlemaine VIC 3450 Phone: (03) 5472 2772 Email remains the same -...

Monday, 25 November 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is calling for book submissions for our programs that provide much needed books and literacy resources into remote and isolated communities across the country. All books...

Monday, 25 November 2013
Rachael McDiarmid, Publisher Relations & Marketing Communications Manager at James Bennett / Inbooks has left the company after nearly 11 years. Looking for new opportunities in the book trade, she...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
Cengage Learning has acquired future publishing rights to Pearson Australia’s Vocational titles. Pearson will continue to sell current editions of the textbooks, primarily used in TAFE and RTO markets. Future...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) invites book industry staff to the Victorian Christmas party: ‘Come and celebrate another year in bookselling and tell your rep how much you appreciate all...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
FURIA, the new journal of literary short stories has published its first issue, with authors including Cassandra Atherton and Les Zigomanis. Available from furia@bigpond.com. $10. ISBN: 978-0-646-91032-1 ISSN 2202-7793. 108...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Nominations are now being accepted for Australia's largest and most important award for business literature, the Ashurst Business Literature Prize (previously the Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize).                                  For the first...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
HarperCollins would like to congratulate Pamela Williams, author of the best-selling book on the decline of the Fairfax media empire, Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge (ISBN 9780732297664),...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Doris Lessing, the British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Laureate, has died at the age of 94. The internationally acclaimed writer died peacefully at her London home. Lessing, who was...