Wednesday, 19 June 2013
‘I dishonour my craft and I piss on my vocation if give in to my laziness to not write’—author Christos Tsiolkas reflects on his writing during the Australian Booksellers Association...

Monday, 17 June 2013
Entwined with You (Sylvia Day, Penguin), the third novel in the erotic fiction series ‘Crossfire’, is at the top of the bestsellers and the highest new entries charts this week. The author is...

Monday, 17 June 2013
Allen & Unwin was named Publisher of the Year at the 2013 Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide on 15 June, the fourth year running that the publisher has received...

Monday, 17 June 2013
The Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals have announced a number of events ahead of their official program launches. The Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 22 August to 1 September,...

Friday, 14 June 2013
The finalists for this year’s Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island) Paper Plus...

Friday, 14 June 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that it will publish a series of books with the Australian Football League (AFL) for ‘supporters of all ages’. The children’s titles, which will be branded...

Friday, 14 June 2013
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Pinerolo, the Children’s Book Cottage in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, has announced its 2013 illustrators-in-residence. The illustrators, who will each undertake a one-week residency at Pinerolo, are: Nette...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has signed two new novels in the second round of its Ampersand Project for unpublished YA authors. HGE will publish The Flywheel, a contemporary novel by...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Thorpe-Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing, have launched TitlePage Plus. The APA and Thorpe-Bowker said in a joint press release this week that TitlePage Plus...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications is expanding its team with a number of new staff appointments. Kirsty-Michelle Johnson has been appointed to the position of sales and distribution manager. Johnson previously...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Regina Hoekstra has been appointed as the new head of ABC Retail and has been given the task of moving the ABC Shops, ABC Centres and the ABC’s online business...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
‘If this proposal ever becomes law, the APA can only think that we’re in for some tough times, with publishers likely to have to spend a great deal of time,...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Scottish author Iain Banks has died, aged 59. Banks’ novels include The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, Complicity, The Steep Approach to Garbadale, Transition and Stonemouth (all Abacus). His science-fiction...

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Theodore Boone: The Activist by John Grisham (Hachette) is the fourth instalment in the children’s book series featuring 13-year-old legal whiz kid Theodore Boone. It’s on top of this week’s highest new entries chart....

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Penguin Australia publisher Bob Sessions, literary agent Robin Dalton, bookseller Jacqueline Cookes and authors Jill Conway and Hazel Edwards were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sessions was...

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Australian author and journalist Steve Lillebuen has been named a winner in the 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Lillebuen, who divides his time between Melbourne and...

Friday, 7 June 2013
The introduction of a broad ‘fair use’ copyright provision and the replacement of statutory licenses with a voluntary licensing model are among the key changes to Australia’s copyright regime proposed...