Thursday, 27 March 2014
A number of Australian and New Zealand authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2014 RITA Awards.The RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The editorial team that produces the Weekly Book Newsletter, Books+Publishing Daily newsletter and Books+Publishing magazine is undergoing some changes. News editor Eloise Keating is leaving the team to take up...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Walker Books Australia has won the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category.The publisher was chosen from a shortlist of four, which included Allen...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Digital sales grew by more than 50% at Harlequin Asia Pacific in 2013 and now account for 25% of the publisher’s total sales, reports regional vice president Michelle Laforest. Commenting...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
‘In today’s highly competitive and technological world, Quercus’ board believes that publishers will best fulfil their potential by being part of a larger and more diverse group’—Quercus chairman David Potter...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
The program for the second annual Newcastle Writers Festival is now available online. The festival, which will be held on 4-6 April, will be opened by author Wendy Harmer, who...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Hopscotch is releasing two DVDs on 9 April for children aged under five. Peppa Pig: My Birthday Party DVD contains 10 entertaining piggy tales about Peppa, the loveable, cheeky pig...

Monday, 24 March 2014
I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the third week in a row, followed by The Fault in Our Stars (John...

Monday, 24 March 2014
Books by Australian authors Hannah Kent and Karen Foxlee are among the titles nominated for this year’s Indies Choice Book Awards, presented by the American Booksellers Association.Kent’s novel Burial Rites (Picador) is...

Friday, 21 March 2014
Penguin Australia and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) are among the finalists for the inaugural London Book Fair (LBF) International Book Industry Excellence Awards. The awards, which were launched in October...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Hachette Australia and the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) have teamed up to present an online novel-writing course for emerging writers, called Year of the Novel Online.The course will be delivered...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Program details have been announced for the 2014 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Australia East/New Zealand Conference, to be held in Sydney on 13-15 July. The three-day...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
‘There is little recent research on Australian children’s leisure reading preferences and no research on Australian children’s online and digital reading preferences’—One of the findings of a new report by...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The program for this year’s Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival in Western Australia has been announced. This year’s festival will be held from 16 to 18 May. Among the...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century (Hamish McDonald) to Palgrave USA.Children’s—Fremantle Press has sold the US rights to The Amazing...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
British bookseller, author and TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright has died, aged 66. Best known as a co-host of the BBC series Two Fat Ladies in the 1990s, Dickson Wright was...

Monday, 17 March 2014
There are no changes at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) and Be Careful What You Wish For (Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan) in...

Monday, 17 March 2014
A new report by the Australia Council for the Arts has identified a number of gaps in recent research about the reading habits of Australian children, and has called for ‘regular,...

Monday, 17 March 2014
New Zealand independent bookstore Page & Blackmore Booksellers is up for sale, reports the Nelson Mail.The store, which is located in Nelson on the South Island of New Zealand, went on...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Australian author Glenda Millard has been shortlisted for the 2014 UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Book Awards for her book The Naming of Tishkin Silk (illus by Caroline Magerl, ABC Books)....