Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The program for this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 2 to 4 August, features 130 writers who will participate in 90 panel events,...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: NZSA Hubert Church...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs has been awarded the Maggie Beer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Food at this year’s Produce Awards, presented by ABC magazine delicious. Gibbs received...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Hachette Australia is reprinting The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (Little, Brown) following the revelation this week that Harry Potter author J K Rowling is the author of the crime...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Austlit has sold rights to Mary Poppins She Wrote (Valerie Lawson) to Simon & Schuster in New York and to Wydawnictwo Marginesy in Poland. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed Chinese simple...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
‘We are seeing indications that textbooks are not playing the central role in underpinning learning that they once did’—Pearson Australia CEO David Barnett explains the reasons behind the company’s restructure, which...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Say You’re Sorry by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been longlisted for the 2013 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger in the UK. Say You’re Sorry is one of eight...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
The Wheeler Centre has announced its third round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships, including a number of applicants with publishing contracts. Musician and writer Justin Heazlewood, also known as The Bedroom...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Pearson Australia has announced a major restructure of its educational publishing activities, which could result in as many as 75 redundancies in the organisation. The publisher said in a statement...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Feature film adaptations of Australian novels Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U), Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) and YA novel On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta, Penguin) are...

Monday, 15 July 2013
The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring Down the Prime Minister (Kerry-Anne Walsh, A&U) is at the top of the highest new entries...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Michael Webster has announced his retirement as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne. ‘“Retired” is a dreadful word, but after a...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Three projects have won the inaugural Young Writers Innovation Prize, presented by Express Media for innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing. Writer and reviewer Daniel Golding has...

Thursday, 11 July 2013
A US court has found that Apple conspired with publishers to raise the retail prices of ebooks. Over the three-week trial, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sought to prove...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The longlisted titles in the full-length book categories are: Best fiction Antidote to Murder (Felicity Young,...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Last week’s announcement of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has been met with some concern from the book industry over the lack of representation of...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English language rights to The Scrivener’s Tale (Fiona McIntosh); and Bulgarian translation rights to The Right Hand of God (Russell Kirkpatrick). Spinifex Press has sold...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Gary Pengelly, general manager of Thorpe-Bowker, writes: ‘On Monday this week I...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
US academic book publisher Arthur J Rosenthal has died, aged 93. Rosenthal founded academic publisher Basic Books in 1952, going on to publish influential books on psychology, sociology, current affairs, history...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
‘Dear England. We’re going to send you a big present: our Australian and New Zealand writers, film and music makers. It will all be like a series of loveable and...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Melbourne-based library supplier DA Information Services and its trade distribution arm Central Book Services have been placed into administration. Ferrier Hodgson partner John Lindholm was appointed voluntary administrator of the companies...