Friday, 13 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Emile Sherman and Kathy Shand to the festival’s board of directors. Sherman is an award-winning producer and owner of the production company See-Saw...

Thursday, 12 December 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the establishment of an Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), which will take over responsibility for the annual APA Book Design Awards. The ABDA committee...

Thursday, 12 December 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Sleepers Publishing has announced a new partnership with Duffy & Snellgrove that will involve Sleepers distributing Duffy & Snellgrove titles globally as ebooks. Under the arrangement, Sleepers will distribute...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Haylee Nash has been appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor of fiction at Pan Macmillan. Nash, who begins in the role on 16 December, was publishing manager...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a ‘small number’ of its children’s books directly into the UK from 2014. A&U children’s publicist Lara Wallace told Books+Publishing that...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown between Doctors and Patients by Ranjana Srivastava (Penguin) has won this year’s Human Rights Literature Award. Dying for a Chat was selected from...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers.  This is your last chance to complete the survey online.  Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
B2Be, owner of ecommerce service PacStream, has announced that it will manage the service from January 2014. Pacstream is currently managed by Thorpe-Bowker, owner of Books+Publishing. B2Be said in a...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
‘Books pages are full of authors reviewing authors, almost always in the uncomfortable position of writing about someone they know and in many cases someone they like’—the Saturday Paper editor...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Women’s Bookshop in Auckland has been named the Penguin New Zealand Independent Bookseller of the Year for 2013. The Women’s Bookshop is owned by Carole Beu. In a statement published...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Saturday Paper, a weekly newspaper to be launched by Schwartz Publishing in the first quarter of 2014, will include book coverage with pseudonymous reviews. The identity of reviewers will...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2013. The first issue for 2014 will be published on 8 January. Any material submitted online or emailed...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Allen & Unwin (Australia) Tuesday 24 December (closing 1.30pm) Thursday 2 January Allen & Unwin (New Zealand) Tuesday...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK rights to Prime Cut and Getting Warmer (Alan Carter); and German rights to Prime Cut. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold US rights to 20 x...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Tracy Strudley, sales and marketing director of New Zealand educational publishing company Global Education Systems, has been elected to the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Strudley...