Tuesday, 29 July 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 28 July by State Library of Western Australia CEO and state librarian Margaret Allen. The shortlisted...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Samsung has closed its Australian book content business as part of a company-wide move. ‘Globally, Samsung Electronics closed Samsung Books in Samsung Hub,’ a company spokesperson told Books+Publishing.As a result of...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Capital Books in Wellington, New Zealand, will close at the end of August, reports the Dominion Post. The store, which has traded for 18 years, is owned by Tim and...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Allen & Unwin has celebrated the centenary of its name by publishing a ‘small hardback history’ called A Hundred Years of Allen & Unwin 1914-2014. The book, written by A&U...

Tuesday, 29 July 2014
A new writers’ studio has opened in Collingwood in inner-city Melbourne.The Good Copy, which moved into its studio space earlier this year, describes itself as ‘a writing studio, a shop, a...

Monday, 28 July 2014
A group of authors has launched a website to promote Australian rural fiction.The website, An Australian Rural Romance, ‘showcases the genre’s emerging, established and award-winning authors published by Australian publishers’,...

Monday, 28 July 2014
There is no change at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with the regular and film tie-in editions of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) in first and...

Monday, 28 July 2014
ACT minister for the arts Joy Burch has announced that proposed changes to the ACT Book of the Year Award will be deferred while a review of the prize is...

Thursday, 24 July 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) is among the 13 titles longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.The full longlist is: To Rise Again at a...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
‘A bookshop should be a bookshop, right? If you walk in and don’t see books, you lose your faith in the business’—Craig Hildebrand-Burke argues against a radical reinvention of the bookshop in a blog...

Tuesday, 22 July 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are:Young Readers Girl v the World: Sophie Bennett Saves the...

Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Scribe has acquired Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson, the winning entry in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Scribe acquired world rights in the novel...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Lisa Gorton has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria. The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The Australia Council is changing the way it awards grants.The changes will be implemented from January 2015. ‘The new grants model will support a more diverse range of artists, artistic...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Matt Richell, CEO of Hachette Australia and chairman of Hachette New Zealand, died in a surfing accident in Sydney on 2 July.Former CEO of Hachette Australia Malcolm Edwards writes:‘Matt was different....

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
‘There should be no hard and fast rules concerning book reviewing. That’s because reviewing constitutes a worthy genre in its own right, one that should not be limited by guidelines...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Express Media has announced the winners of its 2014 Young Writers Innovation Prize.Now in its second year, the prize funds innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing.Betanarratives has...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
The Griffith REVIEW has announced the appointment of Hamish Townsend as editorial manager. Townsend, who was previously a journalist and communications officer at Griffith University, took up the position in...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Hachette has announced it will establish a scholarship or foundation to commemorate Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell. ‘We plan to work with [Richell’s wife] Hannah to establish a scholarship or...