Friday, 28 June 2013
International representatives meeting at a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conference in Morocco have adopted the Marrakesh Treaty, which boosts access to books for people who are blind, visually impaired...

Thursday, 27 June 2013
The Australia Council for the Arts will be restructured for the first time in its 40-year history after the Senate approved the Australia Council Bill 2013 on 25 June. The...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Australian ebook retail platform Bkclb, which launched in the second half of 2012, has been relaunched with the new name Tomely. The platform, which is aimed at authors and small publishers,...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Collins Booksellers has partnered with the Australian newspaper to offer its customers 20% off the price of books reviewed in the Weekend Australian each week. The promotion, which started on...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US author Vince Flynn has died, aged 47. Flynn is best known for his bestselling ‘Mitch Rapp’ series of political thriller novels. His most recent book is The Last Man...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Global revenues at Random House increased by 22.5% in 2012 in large part due to the success of E L James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ series, which sold more than 70 million...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US science-fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson has died, aged 87. Matheson is the author of a number of novels, including I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man (both Victor Gollancz), A...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US journalist and author Michael Hastings has died, aged 33. Hastings worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and as a reporter for Newsweek, Gentleman’s Quarterly and BuzzFeed. He wrote...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish translation rights to Fresh Fields (Peter Kocan) and My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin); and US, European and Irish English-language rights to Dark Serpent, Dark Turtle...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
‘The “traditional” publicity function will not be a focus of our marketing strategies’—Hardie Grant Egmont managing director Natasha Besliev on the restructure of Hardie Grant’s sales and marketing team.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Keiran Rogers, former senior sales manager at Hinkler and sales director at Hardie Grant, has joined Affirm Press in the newly created role of sales and marketing manager. Affirm Press...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Christchurch on 24 June. The winners are: New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book...

Monday, 24 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced, with Random House New Zealand dominating the publishing categories for the second year in a row.    Random House...

Monday, 24 June 2013
In The Devil Wears Prada (HarperCollins), Lauren Weisberger wrote what was speculated to be a semi-autobiographical account of her experience as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Vogue. The book...

Monday, 24 June 2013
Booksellers New Zealand has elected a new board during the association’s annual general meeting, held during the 2013 Booksellers NZ conference.  The members elected to the 2013/14 board are: Stella Chrysostomou of Page & Blackmore...

Friday, 21 June 2013
Fremantle Press has partnered with Curtin University to produce book trailers for a number of its new titles. The partnership involved students from the university’s department of film, television and...

Thursday, 20 June 2013
Books by Australian authors Tom Keneally, Robert Gray and Amy Espeseth have been nominated for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing. Keneally’s The Daughters of Mars (Vintage), Gray’s Cumulus (John...

Thursday, 20 June 2013
Hardie Grant has announced a restructure of its sales and marketing team, which has led to the closure of its Auckland office, affecting three staff, and a further redundancy in...

Thursday, 20 June 2013
The NSW Government has announced that the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), the Sydney Festival and the Biennale of Sydney will share in $6.2 million of funding as part of 2013-14 Budget. However, the announcement represents no...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Tiwi: Arts, History, Culture (Jennifer Isaacs, Miegunyah) A Wild History: Life and...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the appointment of Michael Gordon-Smith as interim CEO following the resignation of long-time CEO Maree McCaskill last week. Gordon-Smith will begin in the...