Tuesday, 3 April 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Martin Nakata to its board. Nakata holds the title of Chair of Australian Indigenous Education and is the director of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Softlink, a Brisbane-based content and library management system developer, has announced it is now distributing OverDrive's ebook and audiobook service to corporate and academic libraries in Australia. Since last year...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it will be making a 'substantial donation' to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Fund with the royalties from Flood and A Generous Helping (Alison Alexander & Madonna...

Sunday, 1 April 2012
Michael Farrell has been announced by the Australian Book Review (ABR) as the winner of the eighth Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem Beautiful Mother.  Farrell, whose new collection...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a new series of short stories as stand-alone ebooks in May, called A&U Shorts. The ebooks will be priced at $1.99 and...

Monday, 26 March 2012
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford in the UK have announced that Australian author Peter Carey is the latest recipient of the Bodley Medal. Carey will be presented...

Monday, 26 March 2012
Australian Poetry is currently running a campaign with 'crowd-funding' platform Pozible to raise money to deliver its national poetry festival online. This year’s festival will be held in Darwin between...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Australian authors Lara Fergus and Lili Wilkinson are among the finalists for this year’s Lambda Literary Awards, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation in the US to celebrate achievement in...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, NSW, is a finalist in the Australian Small Business Champion Awards for 2012. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on 21 April at...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Overland literary journal has announced that Joel Ephraims has won the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets. Ephraims won the $6000 prize for his poem...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The finalists for the 2011 Aurealis Awards have been announced. More than 700 entries were received for the awards, which are presented for works of speculative fiction written by Australian...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Melbourne children’s bookseller the Little Bookroom has launched an online store, powered by ecommerce platform shopify. Store owner Leesa Lambert told Bookseller+Publisher that the online store currently has around 300...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
HarperCollins New Zealand has recalled Place Names of New Zealand by John Lockyer because of ‘copyright concerns’, reports Booksellers New Zealand. A statement from the publisher advised bookstores to remove...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Among the finalists for the fifth annual US Children’s Choice Book Awards is Australian author Shaun Tan. Tan’s book Lost & Found (Hachette Australia) is nominated in the category Fifth...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
A new literary event will be hosted by Great Escape Books in Airey’s Inlet, Victoria, following on from the successful Women on the Road literary weekend in February 2011. The...