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,...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The books in the ‘Fifty shades’ trilogy (E L James, Arrow Books) are still at the top of the bestsellers chart this week. The fourth and final book in the...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced initial details of its adult program for the 2012 festival. British actor, director and author of several biographies Simon Callow will give the...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Booksellers New Zealand has announced details of its annual conference. The Business of Bookselling Conference will take place from 1-2 August in Auckland and will include a trade show, conference...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Shaun Symonds, general manager of Nielsen BookScan Australia, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday 17 June. Symonds said the average selling price (ASP) of...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House has sold The Hanging Garden (Patrick White) to Slovenia; Dirty Money (Matthew Benns) to Mongolia; and Eat Spray Love (Blossom & Joan Sauers) to India. Nonfiction—UWA Publishing has sold...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Gordon Richardson OBE, president of the Library Association of Australia from 1967-68 and former principal librarian and principal archivist of the Public Library of NSW, has died aged 94.

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Attendance was up at this year’s Book Expo America (BEA), which ran from 4-7 June in New York, with Australian attendees reporting a buoyant fair. Readings’ books division manager Martin...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Anne and David Norman, owners of Whitcoulls, Farmers and other stores, were named Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours list...