Wednesday, 26 February 2014
‘Rapacious readers can soon become immune to the allure of well-placed advertising copy. There is, after all, only so many times you can read the words “masterly, lyrical, and gripping”...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Mr Wilkinson’s Vegetables: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Seasons by Australian chef Matt Wilkinson (Murdoch Books) is a finalist in the 2014 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) food writing...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Books by two Australian poets have been shortlisted for the inaugural Daphne Awards, launched by literary website Bookslut to reappraise the results of controversial book awards starting in 1963. Five...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
UK literary agent Ali Gunn has died, aged 45. Gunn worked as a literary agent for Curtis Brown for a number of years before establishing her own agency, Gunn Media....

Monday, 24 February 2014
Ebook sales grew strongly for Simon & Schuster Australia in 2013 and now account for approximately 20% of the publisher’s total sales, reports managing director Lou Johnson. This compares to...

Monday, 24 February 2014
Influenced by film adaptations screening in cinemas and trailers of adaptations to come, the top three bestsellers remain the same this week. The film tie-in edition of The Book Thief...

Monday, 24 February 2014
The Copyright Agency has joined other members of the book industry in raising concerns about the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendation that the Australian Government introduce a broad ‘fair...

Friday, 21 February 2014
Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra have been appointed as the 2014 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writers-in Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of the joint residency, which...

Friday, 21 February 2014
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and Creative New Zealand have announced the guests that will participate in this year’s visiting international publisher program, Te Manu Ka Tau: Flying...

Thursday, 20 February 2014
The shortlist for the 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The 12 shortlisted poems are: ‘Solstice’ (Carolyn Burns) ‘Of the Moment’ (Zenobia...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Books published by Oxford University Press Australia are now being licensed in international territories by the rights team at OUP UK, reports the Bookseller. Anne-Marie Hansen, head of rights at OUP UK,...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Random House has recalled all copies of A First Place by David Malouf (Knopf) due to a printing error. The publisher said in a statement this week that a reprint...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
‘Development of indigenous content in a small market such as Australia poses enough risks without weakening publishers’ confidence by eroding the current laws that protect that investment. Creation of high...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the International Publishers Association (IPA) have spoken out against the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendation that the Australian Government introduce a broad ‘fair...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Western Australian poet Nandi Chinna has won the 2013 Tom Collins Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna was announced as the winner of the $1000 prize...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The finalists for the 2013 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the categories announced are: Fantasy novel Lexicon (Max Barry, Mulholland)...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
SalesFiction—Fremantle Press has sold North American rights to Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (Annabel Smith) to Source Books.  Children’s—Era Publications has sold Swedish rights to 24 ‘Wings Traditional Tales’ titles. Ford Street...

Monday, 17 February 2014
The film tie-in of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) is still number one on the bestsellers chart, while John Green’s YA novel The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin)—the film...

Monday, 17 February 2014
Literary journal Seizure has announced the shortlist for this year’s Viva La Novella competition. The eight shortlisted authors are: Daniel Davis Wood Ben Hobson Nicole Holyer Hoa Pham Julie Proudfoot Anna Snoekstra...

Friday, 14 February 2014
A book authored and edited by staff and students from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand has won the 2013 UK Art Book Prize, worth £1000 (A$1853). Art...

Friday, 14 February 2014
New Zealand children’s book Grandma McGarvey by Jenny Hessell and Trevor Pye (Scholastic) has won the 2014 Gaelyn Gordon Award for a much-loved book. The award is presented annually by...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
China’s biggest publishing company Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG) opened an office in Melbourne in October last year.PPMG is the parent company of 12 Chinese publishing houses that have a combined publishing...