Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Czech, Portugese and Slovakian rights to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion); and Mexican rights to A Love Letter From a Stray Moon (Jay Griffiths). Children’s—Hardie Grant...

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Penguin Books Australia’s Lantern imprint has a new look, thanks to a relaunched website and a new quarterly emagazine, Lantern Quarterly. The Lantern website was relaunched in November 2012. ‘It’s...

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
New Zealand educational publisher Wendy Pye was made a Dame Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours earlier this month. Pye, who founded Wendy...

Monday, 14 January 2013
Topping the bestsellers chart this week are Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and The Third Wheel (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) in second. Readers continue to be drawn...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Independent Booksellers Network (IBN) in Victoria officially closed at the end of 2012, more than 30 years after the cooperative of independent booksellers was first established. The IBN, which...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2013 round of grants. The charitable organisation, which is funded by Readings Bookshop, aims to support projects ‘that specifically target literacy outcomes...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Australian Book Group (ABG) has moved its distribution to Woodslane and its sales representation will make the same move in March. ABG said in a statement that it has...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Creative Minds is a six-part documentary series about Australian artists or those who have contributed to Australian cultural life. Originally screened on SBS, each program explores an artist’s life story and...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
‘We are particularly focused on building direct relationships with readers’—Random House marketing and publicity director Brett Osmond explaining the publisher’s new monthly book club with radio station Smooth FM.

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Jill Hellyer, poet and founding member of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), has died. Hellyer was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2006 for service...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Bookseller+Publisher is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Random House Australia has partnered with radio station Smooth FM to launch a new monthly book club that will involve book giveaways, author interviews and an online forum. The book...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Writers Victoria has announced that director Roderick Poole has left the organisation. Poole finished in his position on 30 December 2012 after spending two-and-a-half years as director. He joined the organisation in 2010 and led...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards finalists have been announced. Australian and New Zealand finalists include: Authors category Chef: Origin: The Food of Ben Shewry by Ben Shewry (Murdoch Books).  ...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
The film tie-in edition of J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit (HarperCollins) is in sixth place on the bestsellers chart this week, while another film tie-in edition, Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canongate),...