Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Wrights Bookshop in Cambridge, New Zealand, has rebranded as a Paper Plus franchise. Owner Hamish Wright told Books+Publishing that there were a number of reasons for joining the Paper Plus...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
‘When you go into a bookstore or shop online, start paying attention to the faces on the covers and the names of authors. Are you seeing the complexity and diversity...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Melbourne-based book distributor Rainbow Book Agencies and its retail and publishing arm, Mosaic Resources and Mosaic Press, have ceased trading and have entered liquidation.Greg Shilton has been appointed as the...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Irish writer and poet Dermot Healy has died, aged 66. Clare Conville from Conville & Walsh Literary Agency writes:‘[Dermot Healy was] an uncompromisingly brilliant writer in the tradition of Samuel...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Tickets are now on sale for Book Expo Australia, a new event established to promote the Australian book industry, which will take place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August. The...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda Alexandra). Text has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) and French rights to The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw) to Tinder...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Jenny Hellen has been appointed to the newly created position of publisher at Allen & Unwin New Zealand.Hallen joins the company from Random House New Zealand, where she has worked...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Sydney writer Linda Jaivin has won the NSW Writers’ Fellowship for mid-career and established writers, offered annually by Arts NSW. The $30,000 fellowship will allow her to research her new...

Monday, 30 June 2014
The Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow are among several literature-related recipients of the most recent round of funding from the VicArts Grants program. The grant...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Scribe Publications has announced the appointment of Sarina Gale as part-time sales coordinator. Gale is a bookseller at The Sun Bookshop in Melbourne and has previously worked as a marketing...

Monday, 30 June 2014
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Matt Howard to the newly created role of ABC Books campaign manager. Howard has worked as a publicist at NewSouth Books for four-and-a-half years....

Friday, 27 June 2014
Hachette Australia has launched a new consumer website that provides personalised content based on user interaction, said the publisher in a statement.The homepage is designed with stacked boxes containing book...

Friday, 27 June 2014
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award.Wyld’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: The Narrow Road to the...

Friday, 27 June 2014
The Australia Council has funded two new literature projects under the Creative Partnerships with Asia Program. The LITERARY COMMONS! project will bring together writers from Australia and India, including Alexis...

Thursday, 26 June 2014
Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful by Aimee Said (Walker Books) has won the $1500 Children’s/Youth Literature Award in the 2014 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature.The book tells the...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt (A&U) has won the inaugural Readings Children’s Book Prize.The book was chosen from a shortlist of eight. Also on the shortlist were: ...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
The Co-op has announced changes to its senior executive team.Head of general merchandise Adam Jones has been appointed to the newly created role of general manager, leading the merchandise, marketing and...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Rob Smith, CEO of Paper Plus in New Zealand, has announced that he will leave the company on 8 August.‘It has been an honour to lead the Paper Plus Group...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
‘We’ve experienced one of the fastest growing ebook markets in the world and we’ve seen a whole bunch of new publishers starting up’—Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) president Sam...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Brian Cook has sold the Manuscript Appraisal Agency (MAA) to former Murdoch Books project editor Kit Carstairs.Cook, who established the MAA in 1997 after leaving his publishing role at HarperCollins, told...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
New online literary journal Bumf has launched and is now open for submissions.The fortnightly journal, based in Brisbane and San Francisco, is looking for pieces between 400 and 1000 words....