Monday, 29 July 2013
Academics from Australia and Germany are currently working on a comparative study of publishing companies operating in the two countries. The German Australian Publishing Project (GAPP), which is estimated to...

Friday, 26 July 2013
A ‘Great Debate’ with former politicians and a day dedicated to comics and graphic novels are among the highlights of this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which has launched its full...

Friday, 26 July 2013
Hachette has announced a major restructure of its New Zealand operations, which will involve the relocation of its finance, administration and IT divisions to Australia and the closure of its New...

Friday, 26 July 2013
Ian McCarthy from Penguin Australia writes: Marg (Margaret) Dennithorne passed away on Friday 12 July. Her funeral was held in Castlemaine one week later, on Friday 19 July. It was...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
Pearson Australia has confirmed to Books+Publishing that it will close its offices in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane as part of a major restructure of its educational publishing business, announced earlier...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Fiction In the Absence of Heroes (Anthony McCarten, Vintage) The Big...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The Courier Mail and Herald and Weekly Times books editors, Fran Metcalf and Blanche Clark, have selected a list of ‘100 books to read before you die’. It’s a ‘kind...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
‘For debut authors, independent book retailers are the best—and sometimes only—chance at getting into readers’ hands, because that bookseller will often physically put a book there along with a personal...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Frank Moorhouse has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria. The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
A new writers’ retreat has been established in a property in Taroona, south of Hobart. Novel Writing Retreats Australia, which will officially open in February 2014, is being run by...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Books+Publishing is conducting research into wages in the book industry for an article in Books+Publishing magazine. If you work in the book industry, we would love to get your input...

Monday, 22 July 2013
The town of Chester’s Mill in Maine in the US is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible and impenetrable dome in Stephen King’s Under...

Monday, 22 July 2013
Edify, a new distribution company founded by former managing director of Pearson New Zealand Adrian Keane, will take over the sales and distribution of Pearson’s educational products in New Zealand in...

Monday, 22 July 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has made a translation deal for The China Choice (Hugh White) with the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs via Graal Agency (Poland). Exisle Publishing has sold UK, US,...

Friday, 19 July 2013
Canberra-based author Lesley Lebkowicz has won the 2013 ACT Poetry Prize. Lebkowicz’s poem ‘Inside’ was chosen from 128 entries to win the annual award, which carries a cash prize of...

Friday, 19 July 2013
London mayor Boris Johnson and style blogger Tavi Gevinson are among the international guests at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. Tickets...

Friday, 19 July 2013
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Designed Cover...

Thursday, 18 July 2013
The program for this year’s Bendigo Writers Festival in Victoria, which runs from 9 to 11 August, has been announced. The festival kicks off with a speech from former prime...