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...

Thursday, 28 March 2013
Macmillan Australia has announced that it will close Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) by the end of March 2014. Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb told Books+Publishing that as a result of...

Thursday, 28 March 2013
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot have been announced and voting has commenced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel Sea Hearts (Margo Lanagan, A&U) Bitter Greens (Kate Forsyth,...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2013 RITA Awards, with a number of Australian authors included in the honours. More than 1200 books were judged...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Argentinian illustrator and performing artist Isol is the recipient of the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s and young adult literature. Isol, who was born...