Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Melbourne-based publisher Smudge Publishing plans to extend its publishing program this year to include children's titles. Co-founder and and author Jonette George told Bookseller+Publisher that Smudge Publishing plans to work...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) announced a new board of directors at the annual general meeting (AGM) on 31 March. Sophie Masson continues as chair of the ASA for a...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
James Mills-Hicks has joined Quarto as publisher of Global Book Publishing and general manager of Quarto Marketing Australia, replacing Jane Curry who finished in the roles earlier this year. Mills-Hicks...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
The 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is available on the website and in print from bookshops, libraries and festival venues. Tickets are also now available....

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
‘I can happily say on a positive not that there is a very strong push for the awards to continue ... if [they] go ahead with no money then so...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Sydney-based publisher Pascal Press has announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Steve Parish Publishing, which entered liquidation in March. The publisher said in a statement this week...

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Random House Australia 'delivered a strong underlying performance' in 2011, against 'difficult retail circumstances', according to managing director Margie Seale. Seale told Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher delivered a result of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Please note that, due to the Easter public holiday next Monday, the next Bookseller+Publisher Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 12 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Sales Affirm Press has sold Czech rights to Paradise Updated (Mic Looby). Australian Literary Management has sold rights to My Family's History of Smoking (Andrew Riemer) to Hungarian publisher, Helicon...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
The classic edition of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (Scholastic) has moved up to first place on the bestsellers chart and fastest movers chart this week. The film tie-in version...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced that Libby O'Donnell will join the publisher at the end of this month as international rights manager. O'Donnell will begin in the role on 30 April...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Two New Zealand award winners were announced as part of Margaret Mahy Day celebrations on 31 March. The national writing awards were presented by Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust to...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet and author, has died aged 82. Rich’s works include Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), Diving into the Wreck (1973)and Twenty-One Love Poems (1976).

Monday, 2 April 2012
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has scrapped the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, according to a statement sent to Brisbane Times. The cut is part of the Liberal National Party's promised ‘plan...

Sunday, 1 April 2012
Amy Barker was announced as the winner of the 2012 Ena Noël Award, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australia Encouragement Award for Children’s Literature, on Saturday 31 March....