Tuesday, 27 March 2012
'Consumers may get cheap or free postage from overseas online retailers but because of the International Postal Union Treaty, Australia Post has to pay for it to be delivered'— Australian...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
With the film adaptation of the first book in the ‘Hunger Games’ trilogy (Scholastic) hitting Australian cinemas last week, the charts are populated with Suzanne Collins’ novels this week. The...

Monday, 26 March 2012
US-based publisher Pegasus Books has announced that it will expand its distribution into Australia and New Zealand this year, as well as into the UK. Pegasus Books senior editor Jessica...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Queensland-based publisher Steve Parish Publishing has been placed into liquidation and has ceased trading. Liquidator BRI Ferrier was appointed to the company on 9 March, and is now seeking expressions...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Mary Hoban was announced as the winner of the inaugural Hazel Rowley Memorial Fellowship on 14 March at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Hoban will use the $10,000 fellowship to...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators are among those that have been acknowledged on the 2012 White Raven’s list for international children’s and youth literature. The following Australian authors and...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
A number of Australian and New Zealand books were among the winners of the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, announced this month at the 2012 Paris Cookbook Fair. As previously...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Federal Government is expected to introduce tax relief measures in this year’s budget which will allow businesses to claim losses back against previously taxed income, reports the Sydney Morning...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced that Stephanie Smith, associate publisher for its Voyager imprint, has resigned. The publisher said in a statement this week that Deonie Fiford will replace Smith in...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The planned sale of professional and trade publishing assets by John Wiley & Sons is expected to have 'minimal impact' on the publisher’s operations in Australia, according to a spokesperson...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Kinokuniya Bookstores Australia has launched a new Asian-themed literary festival, which will be held for the first time in October. The Asian Writers' Festival will be held between 9 and...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that it is recalling all copies of Snitch: Crooked Cops and Kings Cross Crims by the Man Who Saw It All by Jimmy Thomson, published...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), have been awarded to author María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina and illustrator Peter...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
'They know their tablet customer so well they have given her a name: Julie. "Julie" does not like to consume apps on phones because she is "a bit afraid of...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Mountaineer and author Lincoln Ross Hall OAM has died, aged 56. Margaret Hamilton writes: ‘Lincoln Hall, mountaineer and author, has died in Sydney after a battle with mesothelioma. The world...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
  March Rosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Maggie Beer, Penguin (Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook) nationwide. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In Lone Wolf (Jodie Picoult, A&U), a tragic car accident leaves a man in a coma, with his chances of recovery steadily dwindling, and his fate in the hands of...

Monday, 19 March 2012
Historian, bushman and author Robert Arthur Breeden has died aged 84. Breeden compiled Aboriginal Words, Stories & Legends (Department of Environment and Conservation) of Jack Bussell's handwritten notes from the 1920s on the Wardandi...