Friday, 6 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Awards for nonfiction have been announced. Geoff Chapple will receive one of the $35,000 prizes for his nonfiction book project ‘Terrain:...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
New Zealand educational publisher Learning Media will close within coming months. The board of Learning Media said in a statement on 4 September that the government-owned company will be ‘wound...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
The guest line-up for the first Body in the Garden festival in Adelaide, South Australia, has been announced. The festival, which is for writers of crime and garden books, will...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Copyright Agency will launch an etextbook subscription service for secondary schools called LearningField at the beginning of 2014. The digital platform, which allows teachers and educators to aggregate learning materials...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has recorded another boost in box-office takings. Although ‘detailed figures’ are still being collated, the festival reports that it has ‘surpassed last year’s record-breaking...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has died, aged 74. Heaney is the author of numerous poetry and prose collections, including Death of a Naturalist, Field Work, The Spirit...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
‘Schools have been hoping for a “one stop shop” across multiple resource providers that works on multiple devices’—Cambridge University Press executive director Mark O’Neil on the benefits of LearningField, a...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Australian fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts has won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. The winners of the 2013 Hugo Awards were announced at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013
The 2013 Get Reading! campaign was launched on 1 September and this year’s list of ‘Top 50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ is now available. The ‘Top 50 Books You...

Friday, 30 August 2013
Sydney poet Stephen Edgar has won the inaugural Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Literature for his poem The Dancer. Edgar was announced as the winner of the $7000 prize...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced.  The winners in each category are: New Zealand Post Book of the Year The Big Music (Kirsty...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
Books for Cooks in Melbourne has made its entire stock available to browse on Facebook. By selecting the ‘my store’ tab on the store’s Facebook page, customers can browse Books for...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
Kobo will launch a dedicated children’s ebookstore in Australia and add local magazine content to its catalogue before Christmas. Malcolm Neil, director of content acquisition for Kobo in the Asia...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Get Reading! has revealed the first 20 books from its poll of Australia’s top 100 books of all time. The first 20 books are: 100: Mao’s Last Dancer (Li Cunxin,...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Kirsty Ward, head of consumer and market insights at Simon & Schuster Australia, will leave the publisher in the first week of September. Ward has resigned from her position to join Sydney organic and...

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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Hardie Grant Books has acquired UK publisher Quadrille for an undisclosed sum. Hardie Grant said in a statement that CEO Sandy Grant will become chairman of Quadrille effective immediately, and...