Monday, 12 November 2012
The Perth Writers Festival (PWF) has announced the writers appearing at the festival, running from 21-24 February at the Crawley campus of the University of Western Australia. Margaret Atwood will...

Monday, 12 November 2012
Anne O’Brien has been appointed as festival director of Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (AWRF) beginning 1 January.  O’Brien has worked as artistic director at AWRF since December 2011 and...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘aware’ of the proposed merger between Penguin and Random House. An ACCC spokesperson said that ‘if the...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
‘Global English-language rights will become more and more prevalent, as will simultaneous worldwide publishing. Where this leaves author tours, writers festivals and associated marketing, which until now has been staggered...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Simon & Schuster Australia is celebrating its 25th anniversary next Tuesday with an ‘intimate party’ in Sydney as well as a visit from S&S UK chief executive and managing director...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Random House Australia has announced that it will be using the NetGalley platform ‘as a way of providing electronic advanced reading copies’. The publisher’s sister companies in the US and...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has announced the shortlist for the Walkley Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: Mine-Field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush (Paul Cleary, Black Inc.)...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Approximately 135 writers, editors and agents attended the inaugural GenreCon in Sydney over the weekend. The conference for Australian genre writers, run by the Queensland Writers Centre, was held at...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Reader’s Feast bookshop in Melbourne has announced the program for its annual Crime and Justice Festival. This year’s festival will run from 16 to 18 November, with events taking place at...

Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Jamie Oliver’s latest time-saving cookbook, Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Michael Joseph) has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart and sits in second place on the fastest movers chart this...

Monday, 5 November 2012
Robyn Ewing of Sydney University has been named the recipient of this year’s Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children’s Literature. The award, which is sponsored by Peribo and...

Monday, 5 November 2012
The organisers of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference, being held in Melbourne on 8 and 9 November, have announced that Peter Donoughue will replace Thomas Minkus as keynote speaker. US-based...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Books in Print, TitlePage and several other data services hosted by Bowker in the US (the parent company of Thorpe-Bowker in Australia) have been disrupted by Hurricane Sandy, which has...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
‘I tried for four years to get more money for publishers. At times it was like banging your head against a wall’—Susan Hayes reflects on her time as director of...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Susan Hayes will retire from her position as director of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in December. Hayes told Bookseller+Publisher that her last day at...