Monday, 19 May 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced the appointment of Peter Collins to the festival’s board of directors.Collins joins board directors Deena Shiff (chair), Lena Nahlous, Elizabeth Johnstone, Guy Hedley and...

Monday, 19 May 2014
Maeve Binchy’s Chestnut Street (Hachette) is in first spot on this week’s bestsellers chart for the second week in a row, ahead of Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook:(4) (Egmont) in...

Monday, 19 May 2014
Entertainment One Licensing (eOne) is opening an office in Melbourne, Australia. The Bookseller reports that the consumer brand licence company is opening an Australian office to ‘capitalise on the popularity...

Monday, 19 May 2014
Good Reading has launched a new digital-only magazine for primary school aged children. Called PK Mag, the bimonthly publication aims to ‘provide students with an authentic place to submit their...

Friday, 16 May 2014
Australian author Lucy Treloar is the Pacific regional winner of this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Dog and the Sea’.Treloar’s story was chosen from a shortlist...

Friday, 16 May 2014
Tony and Barbara Horgan have agreed to sell the Shearer’s Bookshop school business and website to Gleebooks. Gleebooks co-owner David Gaunt told Books+Publishing his store already has ‘a small international...

Friday, 16 May 2014
Bolinda has partnered with BBC Worldwide for the sales and distribution of BBC-branded audiobook CDs within Australia and New Zealand. The agreement is for the distribution of BBC Worldwide’s catalogue...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
New biannual literary journal Gargouille has announced it is open for submissions. Founded by Sarah Wreford and Adriane Howell, the publication seeks ‘short stories, poetry, scripts, aesthetic essays, lost and...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Sleepers Publishing has made its first nonfiction acquisition with a memoir from editor Paul Dalgarno. Publisher Louise Swinn told Books+Publishing that Sleepers was ‘thrilled’ to be publishing the as-yet-untitled memoir...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The Federal Government has announced its decision to cease funding of the Get Reading! program in the 2014-15 Budget.  ‘The Government will achieve savings of $6.4 million over four years...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Sydney publisher Brandl & Schlesinger is celebrating its 20th birthday this year.The anniversary is being celebrated with ‘a very strong and varied list’, which began in February with the release...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
‘We believe this to be a retrograde step by the government that we trust will be rethought as a matter of priority’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker on the defunding...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
The Five Mile Press has launched a prize for unpublished Australian illustrators with the winner to receive a publishing contract worth $4000.‘We are offering a guaranteed publishing contract to the winner...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Australia Post managing director and CEO Ahmed Fahour has announced that Australia Post corporate offices will open for Saturday trading from next Christmas, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.Fahour said on...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival has announced the program for its three-day festival entitled Eat My Words, running from 16-19 July. Held annually in Mackay, Queensland, the festival features children’s...