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‘Rudd v. Abbott’ by David Marr available Tuesday 9 July 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have resumed battle for leadership of the nation. Rudd v. Abbott beings together their definitive portraits by Australia’s pre-eminent biographer and investigative journalist, David Marr....

Macdonald to join HarperCollins NZ 

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...

Redmayne to replace Barnsley as HarperCollins UK CEO 

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,...

Most Underrated Book Award entries open 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Entries are open for the Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA), which aims to ‘shine a light on some of the outstanding titles that are released by small and independent publishers...

HarperCollins Oxfam Trailwalker Trivia Night 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Every year, tens of thousands of over-nourished, self-involved, slightly paunchy, social smoking, wee bit unfit, guilt-ridden First-Worlders pretend to take an interest in someone else’s problems for a change by...

Editors Victoria workshops 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Editors Victoria is running several workshops over the coming weeks. Introduction to Copy-editing on Saturday 13 July. Introduction to Structural Editing on Saturday 27 July. From InDesign to EPUB (Mac)...

APA Professional Development: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The Click on Kids’: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar will be held on Thursday 1 August in Sydney, supported by Australian Publishers Association (APA) Children’s Publishing Committee. The seminar venue is Aerial UTS Function Centre, Level 7, 235...

Australian Educational Publishing Awards deadline extended 

Monday, 1 July 2013
The Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013 are open for nominations. The awards, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), recognise the best educational materials published during the year in the...

Booksellers NZ elects new board 

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...

Register now for Get Reading! September 2013 

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Registrations are now open for this year’s September Get Reading! campaign, which will feature an all-Australian Top 50 Books You Can’t Put Down.   The 2013 guide will promote 50...

Lonely Planet warehouse closed for stocktake 

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Lonely Planet’s warehouse will be closed for stocktake from Wednesday 26th of June to Friday 28th of June. Orders received during this time will dispatch from Monday 1st of July....