Wednesday, 13 May 2015
‘It drives home the point that the technology is there to charge GST to all goods and services coming from offshore’—ABA CEO Joel Becker on the government’s announcement that it...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Monash University in Melbourne will no longer offer its postgraduate courses in publishing and editing, citing a fall in demand.The current semester was the last to accept new students in its publishing...

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
TV rights to Rebecca Starford’s debut memoir Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School (A&U) have been optioned by director Pip Karmel and Amanda Higgs, co-creator and producer...

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the government will extend the 10% GST to digital downloads, including ebooks, from overseas from 1 July 2017, under new measures introduced in the...

Monday, 11 May 2015
A new bookstore, Little Gnome, will open in the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum on 30 May.Belinda Ellis, who will run the store with her son Jack Le Roux, told Books+Publishing...

Monday, 11 May 2015
Nora Roberts’ The Liar (Hachette) continues its run as Australia’s number one bestseller for the third consecutive week, followed by Truth or Die (James Patterson, Century) in second spot and...

Monday, 11 May 2015
HarperCollins Australia will reprint David Day’s Paul Keating: The Biography with amendments, after the former Prime Minister disputed the book’s claim he suffers from dyslexia or reading difficulties.In a statement,...

Friday, 8 May 2015
A new online bookshop that allows self-published authors to sell print copies of their books direct to consumers has launched this week.Bocabel, which is registered in Australia but is promoted...

Thursday, 7 May 2015
Affirm Press and Varuna, the Writers’ House, have announced a new publisher partnership.The Affirm Press Mentorship Award offers up to four local writers at any stage of their career the chance...

Thursday, 7 May 2015
Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport (Black Inc.) has been shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards.The title has been shortlisted in the...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has appointed Katie Woods as its new CEO, replacing Meg Vann, who stepped down from the position in February.Woods joins QWC from the State Library...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015
‘As a reader, venturing only to the front of the bookshop is a bit like visiting Europe or Asia or Africa in five days. Exploring ideas takes time’—Spinifex Press director...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage) Drones and Phantoms (Jennifer Maiden, Giramondo) Earth...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The finalists for the 2015 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing have been announced, and include several Australians.Garth Nix has been nominated in the young-adult category for Clariel (A&U);...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
US author James Patterson has announced he will donate a total pool of $100,000 to Australian and New Zealand bookstores to spend on projects to get children reading. Australian and New Zealand booksellers...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Scholastic will move its Adelaide-based children’s book imprint Omnibus to its Sydney office over the next eight months.A Scholastic spokesperson would not say why the imprint was being moved but...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced that the Melbourne Art Book Fair will become an annual event, after the inaugural fair attracted 16,000 visitors from 1-3 May.The fair...

Monday, 4 May 2015
A crowdfunding campaign for an anthology of apocalypse-survival fiction with a focus on disabled characters has reached its US$13,000 (A$16,595) target on crowdfunding website Pozible. The Defying Doomsday anthology, edited by...

Monday, 4 May 2015
Fiction and health-related cookbooks are dominating this week’s bestseller charts, with six fiction titles and three health books in the top 10. The fiction list is led by The Liar...

Monday, 4 May 2015
The New Zealand Book Council (NZBC) is producing a new monthly podcast discussing new release and classic New Zealand books.‘Talking Books’ is hosted by novelist Catherine Robertson, who will speak...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) will rebrand as Ventura Press from 1 August this year, timed to coincide with a new sales and distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S).  JCP...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Dymocks, 3M Cloud Library and JCDecaux have been announced as the major sponsors of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), with overall funding for the awards up 24% on...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
An interactive online graphic novel adaptation of Nam Le’s short story ‘The Boat’, from Le’s short story collection of the same name, has been launched by SBS to commemorate 40...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Bloomsbury Australia and Pantera Press have announced a new partnership to ‘strategically grow Pantera Press’ readership and sales’.The partnership, which begins in June, will see Bloomsbury distribute Pantera Press titles through UBD,...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
‘I think it’s great for the vigour of the culture if one book does not scoop all the prizes’—Booktopia editorial director Caroline Baum on judging this year’s Stella Prize

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a $83.1 million redevelopment of the State Library of Victoria (SLV), with work on the five-year project scheduled to begin next year. The redevelopment includes...