Monday, 5 August 2013
Author and co-founder of Pantera Press John M Green has been appointed to the council of the National Library of Australia. (See news.)

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Tim Antric has been appointed as the new executive director of the Association of Public Library Managers in New Zealand. Antric has previously worked in marketing and digital strategy roles...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Adrian Keane finished in his role of managing director of Pearson New Zealand in June as part of the closure of the Pearson educational publishing business in New Zealand. Keane,...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Emma McCleary has resigned as web editor of Booksellers New Zealand to take up a role as senior communications and marketing advisor at Hutt City Council. McCleary will finish up on 18...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Michael Webster will retire from his position as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne in August. Webster will take up a...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the appointment of Justine Hyde to the position of director of library services and experience. Hyde, who will start in the position...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts have joined Allen & Unwin as publishers for Murdoch Books. (See news.)

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Elke Power has been appointed publishing coordinator at Affirm Press, beginning on 15 July. Power previously held the position of publicist at Black Inc.

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Alysha Farry, publicity and marketing manager at Penguin, has left the company to take on a role at PR agency Liquid Ideas.

Monday, 8 July 2013
Kevin Ormsby has retired from the position of publishing manager at RMIT Publishing in Melbourne after eight years at the compny. Prior to joining RMIT Publishing in 2006, Ormsby held...

Friday, 5 July 2013
At the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne, Simon Abrahams has been appointed to the role of head of programming, replacing associate director Jenny Niven while she is...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald will join HarperCollins New Zealand on 18 July in the newly created position of contract publisher. Macdonald, who will be based in Auckland and will...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Gabrielle Coyne, previously CEO of Penguin Asia Pacific, has been appointed as CEO of Penguin Random House Asia Pacific, following the completion of the merger of Penguin and Random House...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK, has announced that she will leave HarperCollins this month after 13 years with the company. Barnsley, who was also previously CEO of HarperCollins International,...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
New members elected to the 2013/14 board of Booksellers New Zealand are: Stella Chrysostomou of Page & Blackmore in Nelson, Chris Lumsden of Paper Plus in Wanaka, Tony Moores of Poppies Group...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Keiran Rogers, former senior sales manager at Hinkler and sales director at Hardie Grant, has joined Affirm Press in the newly created role of sales and marketing manager. Rebecca Starford,...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Michael Gordon-Smith has been appointed as the interim CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA), following the resignation of long-time CEO Maree McCaskill last week. Gordon-Smith will begin in the...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Regina Hoekstra has been appointed as the new head of ABC Retail. Hoekstra, who has worked for ABC Commerical since 2000, has been acting in the role since December 2012,...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Scribe Publications has announced a number of staff appointments. Kirsty-Michelle Johnson has been appointed to the position of sales and distribution manager, Nicole Muir has joined the company in a...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Children’s book author Kyle Mewburn has been elected as the new national president of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA). Mewburn, who has been elected for a two-year term,...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Belle Place has been appointed as the new editor of the Readings Monthly. Place, who is currently publishing coordinator at Affirm Press, will start in her new role on 14...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Joe Toohey is stepping down as CEO of Express Media, after more than two years in the role, to join Regional Arts Victoria in the role of business manager. Toohey will start in his role...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Kirsty Ward has been appointed to the newly created position of head of consumer and market insights at Simon & Schuster Australia. Ward’s new role is an expansion of her previous...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a number of recent staff changes. Editor Rebecca Starford and deputy editor Hannah Kent have moved into the newly created roles of...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Katie Harford, program officer for market development at the Australia Council for the Arts, is on maternity leave, and will return to her role in 2014. James Cox, previously project...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Sam Cooney has joined the Small Press Network (SPN) in the part-time role of program manager. Cooney, who is also the editor of The Lifted Brow, is working on the...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Wendy Harrex has retired as publisher at Otago University Press in Dunedin, New Zealand, after 20 years in the role. Rachel Scott, formerly the publisher of Canterbury University Press, will succeed Harrex as publisher...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Michael White has been appointed to the newly created position of head of international publishing at HarperCollins. White’s appointment follows the departure of former head of fiction Sue Brockhoff, who...