Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Susan Dunne has joined the Ingram Content Group in the role of senior key accounts sales manager for Lightning Source Australia. Dunne, who started in the role in December 2013,...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
The Stella Prize has received $20,000 in funding from Creative Partnerships Australia as part of a new matched funding initiative.The Plus1 Matched Funding grants, which are supported by the Federal...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Hachette Australia is the latest local publisher to make digital advance reading copies of its books available through NetGalley. There are 30 Hachette Australia titles currently listed on NetGalley. Among the first...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
New Zealand children’s book illustrator Alan Gilderdale has died, aged 89. Gilderdale is best known as the illustrator of the popular ‘Little Yellow Digger’ series of picture books, written by...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
‘In fiction, we can look forward to a new Salman Rushdie novel, a new Hercule Poirot mystery, a sequel to The Rosie Project, the next Game of Thrones saga and...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Historical romance author Anna Campbell is in the running to be crowned Australia’s favourite romance author for the fifth consecutive year. Campbell is one of 10 finalists in the Favourite Author category...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Publisher Kevin Chapman and Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton are among the recipients of the 2014 New Zealand New Year Honours. Chapman, founder of Upstart Press and the former...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Georgina Russell has been appointed as the new marketing and development manager for the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). Russell began in the role in December 2013, replacing Collette Stewart. She...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Monday, 6 January 2014
Familiar names fill this week’s bestsellers chart, including Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) at number one and...

Monday, 6 January 2014
British author Paul Torday died in late December, aged 67. Torday is best known for his debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Hachette), which was released when he was 61....

Monday, 6 January 2014
UK author Elizabeth Jane Howard has died, aged 90. Howard wrote 15 novels in a career that spanned seven decades, including ‘The Cazalet Chronicles’, a series of five novels, beginning...

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...