Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Screen Australia has announced 'development support' funding for several book-to-film adaptations, which are among 23 projects that will receive a total of $700,000. Among the funding recipients is a film adaptation of Tim...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
‘Australian literature doesn’t need saving or preserving—what it needs are partisans, contrarians and heretics’—writer and lecturer Emmett Stinson responds to Jacob Silverman’s article in Slate magazine with a critique of Australia’s literary ‘consensus culture’

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
With Father’s Day around the corner, it’s not surprising to see rugby league player Nathan Hindmarsh’s autobiography Old School (Nathan Hindmarsh & Michael Visontay, Macmillan) at the top of the...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP) has announced that its Expore Australia and Universal Publishers businesses will now operate under a new division called Hardie Grant Explore (HGEx). The publisher also announced that...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Remainder wholesaler Castlebooks has moved to a new warehouse in Keilor Park in Melbourne’s North West. Castlebooks owner Tony Sidebottom told Bookseller+Publisher that the new warehouse is located at 5/101...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. This year’s main prize, worth $1000, was awarded to Pan’s Whisper by Sue Lawson (Black...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold UK rights to Nine Days (Toni Jordan) and Happy Valley (Patrick White); UK and North American rights to Friday Brown (Vikki Wakefield); German rights to Jack and Jill (Helen...

Monday, 27 August 2012
Rosanne Fitzgibbon, distinguished editor and the first recipient of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship, has died. Craig Munro and Sue Abbey from the University of Queensland Press (UQP) write: 'Editor...

Friday, 24 August 2012
The New Zealand Book Council has announced that Catriona Ferguson will join the council as CEO in September. Ferguson, currently arts adviser in the literature portfolio for Creative New Zealand,...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
‘I’d hope that governments in the near future understand that the festival delivers the most amazing bang for buck, and that increasing our funding levels to those received elsewhere—such as...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The titles shortlisted for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. 

 As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, titles have been shortlisted in primary, secondary and TAFE/tertiary...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The Tasmanian Literary Prizes, formerly the Tasmania Book Prizes, have announced changes to the biennial awards in 2013. The University of Tasmania Prize, which was previously awarded for excellence in...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
The bestsellers continue to be dominated by erotic fiction with the ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy by E L James (Arrow) holding on to the first three places on the bestsellers chart. Bared...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Books by Katherine Boo and Andy Griffiths were the top sellers at this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), according to festival bookseller Collins Booksellers Byron Bay. Behind the Beautiful Forever by Boo...

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 17 August. The awards...

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Helen Johansson, who worked as manager of the Co-op Bookshop at University of Queensland St Lucia, has died. Staff of The University Co-operative Bookshop Limited write: 'We are immensely saddened by...

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Sales Fiction—Scribe has licensed Turkish rights to Bereft (Chris Womersley). Nonfiction—Scribe has sold UK, Korean and Serbian rights to Pieces of Mind (Michael Corballis) and Chinese simplified rights to Futurevision (Richard...