Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Eight books, chosen to represent the Australian experience, have been announced as the National Year of Reading 2012 collection. The selected books were announced at official events held across the country to launch the...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012
'People have accused traditional publishers of racing to the bland middle ground to maximise their audience. Publishing digital-only books is all about racing to the edge'--Joel Naoum, publisher of Pan...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Penguin has announced that it has ended its relationship with ebook and audiobook distributor Overdrive, saying that it will no longer provide new copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase by...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Samuel Youd, British science-fiction writer, has died aged 89. The author, who wrote under various pseudonyms, was best known for his young adult trilogy The Tripods and for his novel...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Is Amazon planning to open a bricks-and-mortar bookshop?Foyles launches ebookstoreIndian bookselling chain to...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012
A new South Australian-based publisher was launched this month. MidnightSun Publishing was officially launched at the South Australian Writers Centre on 10 February. The publishing house will launch its first...

Monday, 13 February 2012
The shortlist for this year's Mary Gilmore Award, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for first books of poetry published in 2010 and 2011, has...

Monday, 13 February 2012
Wellington writer Fleur Beale has won the 2012 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award. Beale received the award, which is presented annually by the Storylines Children's Literature Trust, for...

Monday, 13 February 2012
Jeffrey Zaslow, an American author and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has died aged 53.Zaslow co-authored The Last Lecture (2008) with Randy Pausch; Highest Duty: My Search for What...

Monday, 13 February 2012
FebruaryGlen Duncan, Text (Talulla Rising) Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne (through to March).Johan Harstad, UWA Publishing (Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?) Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney...

Monday, 13 February 2012
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Monday, 13 February 2012
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Monday, 13 February 2012
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: Perth Writers Festival: 23-26 February Copyright Agency annual seminar, Melbourne: 23 February New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24...

Monday, 13 February 2012
Carrie Tiffany's Mateship with Birds (Picador) is set on the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s. A lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras...

Monday, 13 February 2012
The winners of the 2011 Australian Romance Readers Awards were announced at the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) annual dinner in Sydney on 11 February, with Anna Campbell receiving the...

Friday, 10 February 2012
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced that HarperCollins New Zealand managing director Tony Fisk will step down from his role in April. The publisher said in a statement that...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
A number of titles by Australian authors have been selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Books-a-Million, Indigo join ban on Amazon Publishing titlesRandom House US to increase prices...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, we meet touring author Alain De Botton, Katie Horner reviews Currawalli Street (Christopher Morgan, A&U) and Carody Culver reviews The Grimstones: Hatched (Asphyxia, A&U).

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
A number of book illustrators have been recognised in the Illustrators Australia (IA) Australian and New Zealand illustration Awards. More than 100 illustrators participated in this year's awards, said IA, which...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Tennis stars' autobiographies dominate the top of the fastest movers chart this week with Australian Open 2012 finalist Rafael Nadal's memoir, Rafa: My Story (Rafael Nadal & John Carlin, Hachette), at...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a free national franchising service called the National Franchise Program (NFP), which is designed to strengthen the Australian franchising sector. The new program, which...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
The longlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal has been announced. In announcing the award the judges said they wanted 'to make special mention of the strength and quality of...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
'It is good to be the only major English-speaking country whose publishing industry actually did not suffer a decline in 2011 versus 2010,'--Publishers Association of New Zealand president Kevin Chapman,...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Stephanie Johnston has stepped down from her position as director of Wakefield Press. Johnston, who purchased the South Australian-based independent publisher in 1991, stepped down from the role at the...