Friday, 4 October 2013
Hachette Australia has appointed Sean Cotcher to the new role of head of field sales following the company’s recently announced restructure. Cotcher has seven years’ experience as national account manager...

Friday, 4 October 2013
Miles Hitchcock has won the inaugural Curtin University Prize for Fiction, administered by writingWA. Hitchcock, who lives in the Western Australian town of Barragup, near Mandurah, won the award for...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
A new online retailer selling books, CDs, vinyl, DVDs and Blu-ray has launched in Australia, and will donate the ‘GST equivalent’ of its sales to Australian literacy charities. OOdals.com.au is...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
‘It’s a cornucopia of riches’—Dymocks buying manager Sophie Higgins reflects on publishers’ Christmas releases in an article in the Age. Higgins, Readings’ Mark Rubbo and Booktopia’s John Purcell offer their...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched an app for this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. The Australia@FBF app, which was created by the APA’s IT administrator Margaret Sarlej, is available...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
The Whitireia Creative Writing Programme in New Zealand has launched a publishing imprint. Escalator Press will publish work by new and established writers associated with the program, which is run...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Chris Currie has left his role as buyer at Brisbane’s Avid Reader to live in Germany for a year, where he will research and write a novel. Currie said he...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Author Marjorie Bligh has died, aged 96. Text Publishing editor David Winter writes: ‘Bligh was a homemaker extraordinaire and an inspiration to Dame Edna Everage. Her fans included Kaz Cooke,...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
A number of Australian authors have been longlisted for the 2014 UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Book Awards. The longlisted titles by Australian authors in each category are: Seven to 11 years...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Australian author M L Stedman has won the UK Historical Writers’ Association (HWA)/Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction for The Light between Oceans (Vintage). Stedman was announced as the winner...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) are in first and second place, respectively, on the bestsellers chart for the second...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has been announced as a judge for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Other judges for the prize are UK-based Zimbabwean book critic and editor...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Hachette Australia has announced a restructure of its business to form a ‘single retailer-facing sales and product division and a single consumer-facing marketing and publicity division’. Hachette Australia chief executive officer...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Kate Cubitt has been appointed as the new managing director at Bloomsbury Australia. Cubitt most recently held the position of sales director at Simon & Schuster Australia. She will join Bloomsbury...

Friday, 27 September 2013
A number of publishers and writers have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Random House associate publisher of...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
Kobo has appointed Stephanie Ogden as managing director of Kobo Asia-Pacific and South Africa, which includes responsibility for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Ogden, who has 19 years’ experience...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
A new prize for first-time US and Canadian biographers has been named in memory of Australian writer Hazel Rowley. The BIO Rowley Prize is administered by Biographers International Organisation (BIO), of which Rowley...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Former director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) Wendy Were and former director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival Lissa Twomey have been appointed as executive directors of the...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Random House Australia has acquired global publishing rights to the memoir of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Penguin Random House chief executive Gabrielle Coyne said in a statement that...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Novelist Christopher Koch has died, aged 81. Koch was the author of numerous novels, including The Year of Living Dangerously, The Doubleman, Highways to a War, Out of Ireland (all...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
‘There is still work to be done to make literary editors and beyond more aware of their unconscious biases and to raise awareness of the disparity in the gender of...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
In 2012, 21,086 new books were produced by 4344 different publishers in Australia, according to ISBN records added to Bowker’s Books in Print database. The 2012 figures show an increase in...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Photographer Lewis Morley has died, aged 88. Morley is best known for his photographic portraits in London during the 1960s, at which time he established Lewis Morley Studios in Soho....

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Sales Fiction—Paul Collins at Ford Street has sold rights to The Beckoning (Paul Collins) to Damnation Books in the US. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed German rights to Peggy (Anna Walker); Korean...