Wednesday, 23 May 2012
‘We expect, conservatively, that just under a quarter of the Australian population will purchase an ebook in the next six months, and there’s a real possibility of much steeper growth....

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The 2012 Finch Memoir Prize was awarded to Lisa Nops for her manuscript My Life in a Pea Soup. The prize, presented on 19 May at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, is...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Rockpool has sold translation rights to Spain for Doulas and translation rights to Italy for 2013 Lunar & Seasonal Diary. Children’s/YA—Scholastic Australia has finalised the licences for Chinese Simplified...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced Catherine Milne will join the company as an associate publisher for nonfiction. Milne, who will take up the position on 25 June, has held the role...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The fifth book in the YA fantasy ‘Mortal Instruments’ series, City of Lost Souls (Cassandra Clare, Walker Books), tops the highest new entries chart and is in second place on...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Jean Craighead George, children’s book author, has died aged 92. George is best known for the novels Julie of the Wolves (1972) and My Side of the Mountain (1959). She...

Thursday, 17 May 2012
The winners of the 2012 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 16 May in Wellington. The winners are: New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Nice...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Small Press Network (SPUNC) has announced that it will hold a new conference for independent publishers in Melbourne in November. The Independent Publishers’ Conference, which has received some financial...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
PMP subsidiary Gordon and Gotch Australia (GGA) has announced that it has sold Brumby Books and Music to Brisbane-based books and stationery wholesaler Sunstate Books. Brumby Books said in a...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Byron Bay Writers' Festival has announced international guests Katherine Boo and Mohammed Hanif will be part of the 2012 program. Boo is a staff writer for the New Yorker...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
This year’s Wordstorm festival, held in Darwin from 10 to 13 May, ‘seems to have been a great success’, according to director Hamish McDonald. McDonald told Bookseller+Publisher that the majority of...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
A review of the Australia Council by Gabrielle Trainor and Angus James has recommended the council receive $21.25 million in additional funding per year. The review also recommends that the...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the 2012 shortlists for the Magarey Medal for Biography Award and the Kay Daniels Award. The Magarey Medal Award shortlist is: My Blood's...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The winners of this year’s Territory Read awards were announced on 10 May during the Darwin Wordstorm writers festival. The winner of this year’s $5000 Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Book...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Co-op Bookshop has re-launched its store at the University of Canberra. The new store is more than double the size of the bookselling chain’s previous store on the campus...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
'I just did a ten-city tour of the States and the big shops have been closing, just as they have in Australia, and yet over and over, small booksellers kept...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Sales Fiction Spinifex has sold German-language rights to The Silicon Tongue (Beryl Fletcher). Nonfiction Spinifex has sold rights to Big Porn Inc (edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray)...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James, Arrow Books), the first in James' erotic fiction trilogy, is top of both the bestsellers chart as well as the fastest movers chart this...