Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Malcolm Broun, founding member of the Co-op (formerly the University Co-operative Bookshop), has died, aged 78.The Co-op writes:‘The Co-op is saddened by the passing of one of its founding members, Malcolm Broun OAM...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
US novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen has died, aged 86. Matthiessen was awarded the National Book Award for general nonfiction for The Snow Leopard (Vintage) in 1980, and for fiction for Shadow...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died, aged 87. A novelist, short story writer, playwright and journalist, Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. His...

Tuesday, 22 April 2014
A couple of blockbuster films dominate this week’s bestsellers chart, led by the The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin)—the film adaptation is in cinemas in June—in first place....

Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Australian author Mark T Barnes has been shortlisted in the Gemmell Fantasy Awards, announced at the British national science-fiction convention EasterCon. Barnes has been shortlisted for the Morningstar Award for Best Debut Novel for...

Tuesday, 22 April 2014
New Zealand Book Month has been postponed until 2015.The organisers of the month-long promotion said in a statement that it will now take place in August 2015. Chair of the...

Thursday, 17 April 2014
The Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) has announced the winners of its 2013 National Literary Awards. Among the winners were Hannah Kent, who received the FAW Christina Stead Award for...

Thursday, 17 April 2014
DK Australia is celebrating the DK imprint’s 40-year anniversary with a program to ‘give back’ to the community.  Troy Lewis, head of media, brands and entertainment at Penguin Australia, told...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Bertelsmann, which owns 53% of the recently merged entity Penguin Random House, has released its annual financial report. The report ‘reflects a full year of Random House … and a...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Co-op campus bookshop has announced it will take over the main bookshop and retail outlet at Curtin University in Western Australia. The bookshop was previously owned and run by...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) and app developer Chatty Kidz have launched a new children’s reading app. The app, which is available to download for free, was launched on 15 April....

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference will be held in Sydney from 13-14 November.The organisation’s third annual conference, and its first outside Melbourne, will be held at the Federation...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Copyright Agency has allocated an additional half a million dollars from its Cultural Fund to expand its Reading Australia website.The website, which was launched in October 2013, provides a range...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
‘Publishers and booksellers face an inherent paradox: they offer specialized skills in a world where everyone can now publish and sell a book’—Foong Ling Kong presents a comprehensive overview of...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Australian Publishers Association (APA) CEO Michael Gordon-Smith has confirmed the organisation has made changes to its office staffing.Industry professional development manager Dee Read, manager of member services and administration Kaye...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold the film/TV option to Anna Krien’s Night Games to Samantha Lang at Wild Light Films.Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare has sold Slovenian rights to four books in...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Text Publishing is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.The Melbourne-based publisher will mark the occasion at its Melbourne Writers Festival party, which publisher Michael Heyward told Books+Publishing has ‘become a...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
British author Sue Townsend has died, aged 68. Townsend was the creator of the bestselling ‘Adrian Mole’ series, beginning with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (Penguin) in...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Author Doris Pilkington Garimara has died, aged 76. University of Queensland Press writes:‘Indigenous writer Doris Pilkington Garimara passed away peacefully on April 10, surrounded by family in Perth. Doris was...

Monday, 14 April 2014
TV chef Pete Evans’ cookbook Healthy Every Day (Plum) has moved from outside the top 10 last week to first place in this week’s bestsellers chart, ahead of I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah...

Monday, 14 April 2014
Leading Edge Books Benalla in country Victoria will close in May. The bookstore was opened in May 1999 by Ron Schulz and his wife Bev. At its high point it employed three...

Friday, 11 April 2014
The program for the Northern Territory writers festival Wordstorm 2014 has been released. Running in Darwin from 29 May to 1 June, the festival will feature 70 writers, including 40...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
The ‘first wave of events’ for the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London have been announced and tickets are now on sale.The four-day program,...