Wednesday, 10 April 2013
‘Every time Australia Post raises their postage rates it makes it harder to compete against overseas book retailers’—General manager of Pages & Pages Booksellers and Australian Booksellers Association president Jon...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Peter Workman, founder of New York publisher Workman Publishing Company, has died aged 74. Workman helped to first publish The Silver Palate Cookbook  by Julee Russo in 1981 and through the...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Author and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died, aged 85. Jhabvala was born in Germany and lived in the UK, in India and the US. She wrote 12 novels, 23...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Pan Macmillan has announced that Tracey Cheetham has been appointed to the newly created role of publicity and marketing director. Cheetham, who has already started in the new role, was...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
The Copyright Agency has announced $266,300 in new funding for Reading Australia, a website designed to promote Australian literary works. The agency said in a statement this week that the...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Author Nadia Wheatley and illustrator Ron Brooks have been nominated by IBBY Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The International Board of Books for Young People...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Older Readers:...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Sales Fiction—Scholastic has put a US deal in place for The Runaway Hug (Nick Bland & Freya Blackwood); and licensed Japanese rights to The Very Hungry Bear (Nick Bland). Random House...

Monday, 8 April 2013
Ten years ago, Rebecca Saunders settled down with Charlie Lewis on their farm. But now, as the farm begins to fail, Rebecca wonders how the romance with her husband vanished. What...

Monday, 8 April 2013
New Zealand publisher Bridget William Books (BWB) has launched a new series of short digital-only books called BWB Texts. BWB launched the new series in March with Paul Callaghan: Luminous...

Monday, 8 April 2013
Australia Post has increased the price of its prepaid parcels as part of a range of measures it says will help meet ‘increasing demand for straightforward and hassle-free parcel delivery...

Friday, 5 April 2013
HarperCollins Australia has announced that Rochelle Fernandez has been promoted to the role of commissioning editor for HarperVoyager.   Fernandez, who has already started in the role, was previously digital...

Friday, 5 April 2013
‘In the past two years we have seen a significant rise in digital sales of books, products, platforms and subscriptions ... against a backdrop of declining physical books sales. This...

Thursday, 4 April 2013
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not publish on Friday 5 April due to an internet outage. The Daily will return on Monday. 

Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Graft (Helen Heath, Victoria University Press) Science on Ice: Discovering...

Wednesday, 3 April 2013
What Katie Ate by Sydney-based author and photographer Katie Quinn Davies (Lantern) has been nominated in two cookbook categories of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards in the US. What...

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
A number of Australians are in the running for the 2013 Hugo Awards for science-fiction.  Australian fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts has been nominated for Best Fan Writer. In the running for Best Fancast...

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc. has relaunched its Nero imprint for commercial titles, expanding the list to include Australian-originated nonfiction titles. The publisher has also announced that Jeanne Ryckmans has joined the...

Tuesday, 2 April 2013
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, danger closes in on the Shadowhunters in the final instalment of the bestselling ‘Infernal Devices’ trilogy. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (Walker Books) is at...