Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2015 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Literary Fiction Book A Fairy...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Thames & Hudson Australia has appointed Daniel Watts as its new managing director, succeeding Jodie Spiteri-James, who announced her resignation in October last year. Watts was previously regional director for...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
‘To discover a book on display in a well-staffed, lovingly maintained shop, to hold it in your hand then to sneak off and buy the same book online, is really...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) and Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador) have been shortlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Ten books in total...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Readings’ books division manager Martin Shaw is leaving the Melbourne bookseller in early July.Shaw, who has worked at Readings for 21 years, told Books+Publishing he was moving to Germany for...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
A campaign calling for the New Zealand government to lower the GST-free threshold on online purchases from NZ$400 (A$393) to NZ$25 (A$24.52) has been launched by Retail NZ and Booksellers NZ.Under the...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched a crowdfunding project to help send young Melbourne writers to international and domestic literary festivals.The ‘30 Under 30’ project, which coincides with the 30th year of MWF, is aiming...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The bestsellers chart has a new number one this week, with Paula Hawkins’ debut thriller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) claiming the top spot for the first time after nine consecutive...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The 2014 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 11 April. The winning titles were:Fantasy novel Dreamer’s Pool (Juliet Marillier, Pan Macmillan)  Science-fiction novel Peacemaker...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has announced that Julia Gillard, Joan London, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville and Jackie French will be the headline writers at this year’s festival, which runs...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.The shortlisted titles are: General fiction book of the year  Laurinda (Alice Pung, Black Inc.) Lost & Found (Brooke Davis,...

Monday, 13 April 2015
Te Papa Press, run out of the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, is under review by management and could be shut for up to five years, reports Stuff.co.nz.Te...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The program for the 2015 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released.Among the authors at this year’s festival, which will be held from 2-3 May in Clunes, Victoria, are Michael Mori,...

Friday, 10 April 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has flagged that the GST could be applied to intangible downloads such as ebooks as part of ‘tax integrity’ measures to be introduced in the May...