Wednesday, 6 August 2014
‘This Saturday 9 August is National Bookshop Day, and while we can all agree that books are great, we can probably also agree that pugs are even better’—Avid Reader is...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Collins Byron Bay bookseller Gabi Calder said the quality of the program at this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival and the ‘willingness of the audience to engage with authors and...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Ticket sales at the 2014 Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), which ran from 1 to 3 August,  increased by 21% compared to last year, with many sessions selling out. The festival bookshop...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced the winners of its 2014 Children’s Book Awards.  The winners in each category are:LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) Frederick’s Coat (Alan Duff, Random House...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced that executive director Ben Strout will leave the role at the end of 2014. Strout joined the festival in 2009 and has ‘overseen growth...

Monday, 4 August 2014
The Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service has expanded to include content from ‘all six of the major Australian educational publishers’ after Macmillan Education signed up to the service. The Copyright...

Monday, 4 August 2014
The regular and film tie-in editions of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) are in first and second place, respectively, on this week’s bestsellers chart. They’re ahead of...

Monday, 4 August 2014
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin by Alison Alexander (A&U) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW).The biography of Franklin, a...

Friday, 1 August 2014
The Federal Government is seeking feedback on its ‘Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper’, released by the Attorney General’s department on 30 July, which is aimed at stopping Australians from unlawfully...

Thursday, 31 July 2014
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 11th festival, which will run from 1-5 October in Bali, Indonesia.Among the line-up are a number...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 RITA Awards.   Among the winners was Australian author Leah Ashton, who picked up the award for Short Contemporary Romance...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Melbourne comic bookstore All Star Comics has been named joint winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award at the San Diego Comic-Con. The bookstore shared the award with...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
‘You might expect jealousy and conflict not unlike the plots and twists of the stories they write, but this group of authors believe forming a group to support each other...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced its digital reporters for 2014. With the support of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, each reporter will cover events at MWF and have access...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Eleven Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send an Australian writer to...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 28 July by State Library of Western Australia CEO and state librarian Margaret Allen. The shortlisted...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Samsung has closed its Australian book content business as part of a company-wide move. ‘Globally, Samsung Electronics closed Samsung Books in Samsung Hub,’ a company spokesperson told Books+Publishing.As a result of...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Capital Books in Wellington, New Zealand, will close at the end of August, reports the Dominion Post. The store, which has traded for 18 years, is owned by Tim and...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Allen & Unwin has celebrated the centenary of its name by publishing a ‘small hardback history’ called A Hundred Years of Allen & Unwin 1914-2014. The book, written by A&U...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
A new writers’ studio has opened in Collingwood in inner-city Melbourne.The Good Copy, which moved into its studio space earlier this year, describes itself as ‘a writing studio, a shop, a...

Monday, 28 July 2014
A group of authors has launched a website to promote Australian rural fiction.The website, An Australian Rural Romance, ‘showcases the genre’s emerging, established and award-winning authors published by Australian publishers’,...

Monday, 28 July 2014
There is no change at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with the regular and film tie-in editions of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) in first and...

Monday, 28 July 2014
ACT minister for the arts Joy Burch has announced that proposed changes to the ACT Book of the Year Award will be deferred while a review of the prize is...