Wednesday, 2 May 2012
A federal parliamentary inquiry into the prices of software and other electronic products will look at ebook pricing ‘if price differences in that market are raised’, reports the Sydney Morning...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The top five finalists in each category of the 2012 Locus Awards have been announced by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Melbourne artist Shaun Tan has been nominated in the...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
‘Many publishers I visited talked about the value of strong strategic partnerships with external companies and brands who could help foster the in-house skills base and offset the risks involved...

Monday, 30 April 2012
Ernest Callenbach, an American film scholar and environmentalist who wrote about an ecologically sustainable society in 1976 in the novel Ecotopia, has died aged 83.

Monday, 30 April 2012
At the age of 16, Abigail Lowery witnesses a shocking mafia murder that forces her to flee her old life and identity for good. Fifteen years later, she’s still hiding...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The program for the 2012 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival has been released and is now available online. This year’s festival will be held from 9-13 May, and will feature...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
‘It seemed people had, for the most part, stopped talking about the state of the industry, and started talking again about their books, their authors and the increasingly inventive and...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Pearson has announced that it will move to a ‘net price model’ in New Zealand next month, following a similar move in Australia last year. The publisher said in a...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Melbourne University Publishing has reported a year-end overall loss of $2.136 million, compared with a loss in 2010 of only $395,000. The publishing company, which is a subsidiary of the...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Melbourne University Publishing has announced it will move sales and distribution of its titles to Random House from 1 August this year. The publisher, which is currently distributed by Pan...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been announced. Text Publishing received three of the four Australian nominations for the Commonwealth Book Prize among a total...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
While official attendance figures are yet to be released, this year’s London Book Fair (LBF) has been described as ‘busy’ and ‘hopeful’ by Australian publishers, with a large delegation from...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that Amy Baillieu has been appointed as the magazine’s new deputy editor. Baillieu, who is currently ABR philanthropy manager and has previously worked...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler has been elected the new president of the Australian Publishers Association (APA). The APA announced Adler’s appointment following its annual general meeting on Thursday...

Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Calico Joe (John Grisham, Hachette), a story about fathers and sons set in the world of major league baseball, is first on the highest new entries chart this week, followed by...

Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Sales Scholastic Australia has licensed French-translation and English-language rights to Some Dads and The Runaway Hug (Nick Bland, illus. Freya Blackwood) to Canada. Acquisitions Harlequin has acquired the book Sh*t...

Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Dora Saint, a UK author who wrote under the pen name Miss Reed, has died aged 98. Saint wrote about life in the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green. Her...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
A spokesperson for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Bookseller+Publisher that the commission is ‘aware of the developments in other jurisdictions concerning ebooks publishing and pricing’, in...