Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Digital Publishing New Zealand (DPNZ), the industry-based initiative which offered digital conversions for independent publishers and authors, will cease offering its services before the end of this year. In a...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Hinkler Books is in the process of establishing a new sales team to focus on trade bookshops. The publisher announced this week that Shaun Arthurson, previously key account manager at...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Wicked Business (Janet Evanovich, Hachette), the second book in the ‘Wicked’ spin-off series, based on a character from the Stephanie Plum ‘Between-the-Numbers’ novels, is first on the highest new entries...

Monday, 2 July 2012
Rosemary Dobson, a well known Australian poet whose first book In a Convex Mirror was published in 1944, has died aged 92. Dobson received the Patrick White Award in 1984, was awarded...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Michelle Broun has been appointed the new CEO of Magabala Books, replacing Suzie Haslehurst who has recently left the company. Haslehurst, who finished in the role earlier this month, has...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
As reported by Bookseller+Publisher online, the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds to...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it will launch a new global publishing program, to be called HarperCollins 360, next month. The publisher said in a statement that the first phase of...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin, All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented on Wednesday 20 June at a ceremony...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Independent publisher Sleepers Publishing has announced that it has dropped digital rights management (DRM) protection from its ebook titles available through Kobo. Sleepers creative director Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher that...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
'There has been some disappointment in the government's response to the BISG report'—ABA president Jon Page.

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
As dark forces gather, great sacrifices have to be made in the final struggle for love in Rapture (Doubleday), Lauren Kate’s final book in the ‘Fallen’ series. The book is in second place...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Nora Ephron, author and screenwriter, has died aged 71. Ephron, best known for writing the screenplays for the romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, was nominated...

Monday, 25 June 2012
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the best artist category in the 2012 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation in the US....

Monday, 25 June 2012
Donald Charlwood, author of the classic All the Green Year, has died, aged 96. Charlwood, who wrote 11 books, won a number of literary awards and was made a Member...

Friday, 22 June 2012
The winners of the 2011 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. Paul Haines won the long fiction category for ‘The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt’ from The Last...

Thursday, 21 June 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, will launch a crowd-funding campaign next week to raise funds to present cash...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
'@OZBooksellers: Peter Blake (Penguin): a single global price is a fairytale' ‏ '@Tim_Coronel: @OZBooksellers for publishers, maybe, but it's already a reality for consumers'   —Tweets from the Australian Booksellers...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Australian chef Bill Granger is suing Murdoch Books ‘for misleading and deceptive conduct, infringement of copyright and infringement of moral rights’ in the Federal Court of Australia over the publication...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Bayside Literary Festival, Melbourne: 21 June to 15 July Children’s & Young Adult Literature Festival, Sydney: 30 June International Conference on the Book, Barcelona,...