Friday, 7 February 2014
Children’s publisher Wombat Books has launched a new imprint called Rhiza Press to publish ‘family friendly’ titles for readers over the age of 14, including YA fiction, adult fiction and nonfiction.Rhiza...

Thursday, 6 February 2014
Melbourne-based publisher Arcade Publications has announced the closure of its business after five years. Arcade announced at the end of January that it will not be publishing any new titles....

Thursday, 6 February 2014
Murray St Leger has been appointed chief executive of the Copyright Agency.St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian Publishers Association, has been...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Parsons Books & Music in Wellington will close in March after 66 years of trading. The Lambton Quay store was opened in 1948 by Roy Parsons and was later handed...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Bolinda has formed a publishing and distribution partnership with Walker Books to co-publish new release audiobooks, distribute backlist audiobooks and distribute digital content, including ebooks, via its BorrowBox platform.The partnership...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
‘I have changed covers and titles for Big W—it might mean a thousand sales. It’s literally been a case of me getting to say “stop the presses” but these chains...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Dunedin children’s book illustrator and author David Elliot has won the 2014 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, awarded annually for lifetime contributions to New Zealand children’s literature.  The award recognises Elliot’s...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Copyright Agency (CAL)’s Cultural Fund have announced a new Asia-Pacific fellowship program for Australian writers. As part of the inaugural Writers...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
SalesChildren’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Canadian (English language) rights to Zac Power: Boot Camp and Zac Power: Swamp Race (HI Larry); German rights to Zac Power: Lunar...

Monday, 3 February 2014
UWA Publishing has launched a scholarly imprint called UWAP Scholarly.The imprint launched in January with two books, After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation edited by Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark...

Monday, 3 February 2014
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) occupies the top two spots in this week’s bestsellers chart. The film tie-in edition is at number one for the third week in a row,...

Monday, 3 February 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Older readers Pathfinder (Scott Orson Card, Simon Pulse) Summer’s Dream...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
Fremantle Press has announced that Penguin Books will distribute its titles in Western Australia from May 2014.The publisher said in a statement that the move ‘is designed to streamline the...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has launched the program for its first Digital Writers’ Festival, to be held on 13-24 February. The purely online festival will feature sessions on genre...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
‘Good Australian writing needs good Australian bookshops to prosper. Without them Australian writers are one more endangered species whose bush has been bulldozed’—2014 Indie Award nominee Richard Flanagan

Thursday, 30 January 2014
The 2014 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 1 March to Thursday 6 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia....

Wednesday, 29 January 2014
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2014 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers’ Week in March. The visiting international...

Wednesday, 29 January 2014
SalesFiction—Random House has sold Taiwanese rights to The Elusive Language of Ducks (Judith White). Nonfiction—Michelle Anderson Publishing has sold Chinese complex-character rights to Taiwan to You Can Conquer Cancer (Ian...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The film tie-in edition of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) is number one on this week’s bestsellers chart, while the standard edition has climbed to number three. The standard edition is...