Wednesday, 3 July 2013
New Zealand publisher and literary agent Ray Richard has died, aged 92. On behalf of the Publishers Association of New Zealand, Kevin Chapman writes: ‘The publishing industry has lost a...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
‘A deal like this effectively excludes sixty percent of the book buying market’—Australian Booksellers Association president and managing director of Australian Library Services Patricia Genat on Steve Waugh’s decision to...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal. De Kretser was announced as the winner of the award on 2 July ahead...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The members of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have been announced following the passage of the Australia Council Act 2013.  As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish translation rights to Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); Norweigan translation rights to Chasing the Light (Jesse Blackadder); and ANZ English-language audio rights to Bittersweet (Colleen McCullough)....

Monday, 1 July 2013
Scribe has launched a new prize for young nonfiction writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is open to writers aged 30 years or...

Monday, 1 July 2013
A man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, to attend a funeral. As he sits by a pond his past comes flooding back to him about a remarkable girl...

Monday, 1 July 2013
The merger of two of the world’s largest publishing companies, Penguin and Random House, has been completed. Random House parent company Bertelsmann said in a statement this week that it...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Three novels by Australian authors are among the 22 titles that will feature in a new promotional campaign by the American Booksellers Association, called Indies Introduce Debut Authors. Graeme Simsion’s...

Friday, 28 June 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Ruby Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long Romance Bride by Mistake (Anne Gracie, Michael Joseph)...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Australia is ranked in the top three international export markets that contributed to English-language print and ebook sales for US trade publishers in 2012, according to the American Publishers Association...

Friday, 28 June 2013
International representatives meeting at a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conference in Morocco have adopted the Marrakesh Treaty, which boosts access to books for people who are blind, visually impaired...