Sunday, 10 March 2013
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it is ‘not opposed’ to the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the ACCC...

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Stephany Steggall has won the 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Writers Victoria said in a statement that Steggall will use the $10,000 fellowship to work on a biography of Australian...

Thursday, 7 March 2013
The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the Children’s Cover of the Year Award are: I Can Jump Puddles: Australian Children’s...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Black Inc. will launch a new series of ‘short books on big issues by prominent Australian writers and thinkers’ in July. The Redbacks series will launch with Battlers & Billionaires...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
HarperCollins publicity manager Kelly Fagan has been awarded the 2013 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Fagan will be sponsored by the UK-based Unwin Charitable Trust to spend three months in the...

Monday, 4 March 2013
For the fourth year running, historical romance author Anna Campbell has been named Favourite Australian Romance Author at the Australian Romance Readers Awards, which were announced in Brisbane on 2...

Monday, 4 March 2013
Australian bookselling chain Dymocks has announced that it will close its self-publishing platform, D Publishing, at the end of this month. D Publishing said in a notice on its website...

Friday, 1 March 2013
Allen & Unwin is celebrating 25 years of publishing books for children and young adults in 2013. A&U children’s books director Liz Bray told Books+Publishing that the publisher will mark...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Online magazine the Peach has launched a new monthly book club. The Peach Book Club launched this month with an online discussion of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (Orion) led by Peach...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
The longlist for the 2013 ALS Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Lola Bensky (Lily Brett, Hamish Hamilton) Darkness on the Edge of Town (Jessie Cole, Fourth...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
A number of books by Australian authors have been selected for the 2013 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of Arts Development grants. In all, 56 new projects received funding as part of the grants program, which supports Victoria’s independent professional artists...

Monday, 25 February 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the details of its first ‘Publishing Insider’ roadshow event in Sydney. The event, which explores the topic ‘Why print?’, will feature three Sydney...

Monday, 25 February 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) raised a total of $769,000 and delivered more than 18,000 books to over 180 remote communities in 2012. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the ILF...

Friday, 22 February 2013
Random House has revealed its 20 bestselling Vintage Classics books for 2012. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is at the top of the list, which incorporates Vintage Classics and Vintage...

Thursday, 21 February 2013
In the US, three independent bookstores have filed a class action complaint against Amazon and the big six publishers that centres on the use of digital rights management (DRM) to...

Thursday, 21 February 2013
The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Mazin’ Grace (Dylan Coleman, UQP) The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U) The People...

Monday, 18 February 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Tasmanian Literary Prizes have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Tasmania Book Prize ($25,000) for the best book with Tasmanian...

Friday, 15 February 2013
Simon & Schuster Australia has launched a new online community for readers of commercial women’s fiction, called The Sweet Escape. The website, which officially launched on 14 February to coincide...