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...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Cookbook author Stephanie Alexander is among the recipients of the 2014 Australia Day honours, presented by the Governor-General on 26 January as a ‘national and formal recognition for Australians who have made...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Helen Withycombe has joined the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne in the role of programming coordinator. Withycombe, who started in the role earlier this month, joins the...

Friday, 24 January 2014
In Books+Publishing’s pre-Christmas survey, booksellers were overwhelmingly impressed by the titles on offer, particularly in local fiction. While Nielsen BookScan’s figures show that fiction sales were down on the previous...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Online sales of print books were much stronger in Christmas 2013. Seventy-three percent of booksellers reported an increase in online sales compared to Christmas 2012, up from 13% who reported in increase in...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Several booksellers reported ‘the usual’ issues with slow deliveries, but a number reported that supply was better than last year. One NSW bookseller said: ‘In general stock supply seemed much...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Almost all of the publishers who participated in Books+Publishing’s post-Christmas survey described Christmas 2013 as ‘excellent’, with just two publishers describing sales during the Christmas period as ‘good’ or ‘okay’....

Friday, 24 January 2014
The majority of booksellers have reported an increase in sales in Christmas 2013 compared to the previous year, according to the results of Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas survey.Books+Publishing received feedback from...

Thursday, 23 January 2014
The winners of the 2013 West Australia Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) were announced at the end of 2013. The winning books are:Picture Book Award Hairy Nose, Itchy Butt by...

Thursday, 23 January 2014
The Bayside Literary Festival in Melbourne will be replaced with a new year-long event series, Words by the Bay.  Words by the Bay will be launched by Bayside Mayor Laurence Evans...

Wednesday, 22 January 2014
The New Zealand Book Council (NZBC) and Auckland Writers Festival (AWF) have partnered to find the ‘Great Kiwi Classic’ and are asking New Zealanders to ‘join the search for our most...

Wednesday, 22 January 2014
‘After several years of declining sales it was good to see the market bounce back, particularly in the area of physical book retail’—Allen & Unwin sales and marketing director Jim...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Brigid Mullane has been appointed as the new editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD). Mullane has been deputy editor of KYD since mid-2013, having previously worked in...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
A number of Australian and New Zealand books have been selected for the 2014 Gourmand Awards. The Australian winners are:Authors and chefs category Chef: Patissier (Emmanuel Mollois, UWA Publishing) Woman...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. This is your last chance to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...