Tuesday, 26 February 2013
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards winners have been announced. Four books won equal first place in the Charity & Fund Raising category for Australia/Pacific. The winners in this category are: Lentil as...

Monday, 25 February 2013
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is launching a year-round program of writers’ talks.   The Sunday Selection program will...

Monday, 25 February 2013
Alchemist Sydney Sage is struggling to draw the line between her teachings and the urges of her heart. Then she meets the rebellious Marcus Finch, who is on the run...

Monday, 25 February 2013
UK illustrator Barbara Firth has died, aged 84. Walker Books editor at large David Lloyd writes: ‘Barbara Firth was an illustrator of children’s books of great sensitivity, insight, humour and...

Thursday, 21 February 2013
Simon & Schuster Australia’s net sales were up by 15% in 2012 compared to the year before, reports managing director Lou Johnson. Johnson told Books+Publishing that sales of print books...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Kate Eltham, CEO of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), and Michelle Broun, CEO of Magabala Books, are among 23 arts managers who have been selected to participate in the Australia...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, Sydney, is moving to a temporary location on 31 March as the Norton Street Palace Cinema is undergoing substantial renovations. The independent bookshop, which is located under...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the establishment of a licensing program to manage online sales of digitised works originally published in print journals. The DigiJournals program, a...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Education New Zealand (ENZ) has announced that it will fund an export development program for educational publishers in 2013 through the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). The New Zealand government agency, which...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
‘Chick lit, rom com, women’s fiction; whatever you want to call it—these are the books that get us out of bed every day and keep us up late at night’—the...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Online gambling website sportsbet.com.au has launched a betting market on the title of the new James Bond novel, which is being written by William Boyd and will be published by...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) and Harlequin Escape are the latest local publishers to make electronic advance reading copies of their books available through NetGalley. The US-based NetGalley allows registered readers,...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The shortlist for the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The nine poems shortlisted are: ‘The Ether Comes’ (Dusk Dundler) ‘Augury?’ (Luke Fischer)...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Collins Booksellers and ABC Centre in Melbourne’s eastern suburb of Croydon is up for sale. The store, which was established in August 1994, has been managed by owner Mark Elliott for its...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Austlit has sold Tay Bridge Disaster: The People’s Story (Robin Lumley) to the History Press in the UK in conjunction with the Abner Stein Agency. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed US...

Monday, 18 February 2013
Big Nate’s sloppiness is getting out of control and has gotten his best friend into trouble. Will Big Nate clean up his act or flip out? Young readers are clearly enjoying Big...

Monday, 18 February 2013
Napkins bearing 300-word micro stories are currently available at Riverbend Books & Teahouse, along with several other bookstores and cafes around Brisbane, as part of a flash fiction napkin project....

Monday, 18 February 2013
Australian children’s publisher Ice Water Press has been placed into receivership and is no longer trading. Insolvency recovery firm Grant Thornton was appointed as the receiver for the company on...

Friday, 15 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new service offering ebook conversions and direct sales through its website. ASA executive director Angelo Loukakis told Books+Publishing that the Authors...

Friday, 15 February 2013
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has completed its review of the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House, clearing the merger of the two publishers ‘unconditionally’. Thomas Rabe,...

Thursday, 14 February 2013
Publicist and literary agent Benython Oldfield from Zeitgeist Media Group has been appointed as festival publicist for the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). SWF said in a statement that Oldfield...