Monday, 6 May 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories...

Thursday, 2 May 2013
Ten Tiny Things by Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Berlin-based ereading company txtr has launched ebookstores in Australia and New Zealand. The stores officially launched at the beginning of February and each store currently sells approximately 700,000 ebooks, including...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Penguin Books Australia has announced that it will publish 50 classic crime novels in July as part of a new range of Green Popular Penguins. The new range will feature...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
A new series of illustrated books for younger readers will feature previously published short stories from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Pan Macmillan has announced. The series kicks off with...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award features five books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text)   Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser,...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that the judges of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have decided not to present the award this year. This is the second time in the award’s...

Monday, 29 April 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Book Industry Innovation Award, which will be presented as part of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in...

Friday, 26 April 2013
Melbourne publisher Sleepers is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. The anniversary coincides with a big year for the small press, which was founded in 2003 by Louise Swinn and...

Friday, 26 April 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: 7 Myths about Women and Work (Catherine Fox, NewSouth) The Sweet Spot: How Australia...

Friday, 26 April 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The finalists in each of the categories are: Chain/Franchise Bookseller of the Year...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Hyland House publisher and doyen of the book industry Al Knight has died, aged 88.  Knight's wife Janet McCalman writes: ‘Al came to Melbourne in 1971 to be MD of Thomas Nelson....

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
The recipients of the 2013 Australian Society of Authors’ (ASA) Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ grants have been announced.The Emerging Illustrator’s grant of $5000 was awarded to Marc Martin for The River. The...

Monday, 22 April 2013
Australian electronics retailer JB HiFi has launched an ebookstore. The store, which went live on 22 April, is part of the retailer’s NOW platform, which also sells digital music. Among the local publishers...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Text Publishing has signed an eight-book deal with self-published YA author Darrell Pitt. Pitt, a Melbourne writer who is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing at RMIT,...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN), literary journals and writers’ festivals are among the organisations that will receive funding from the Copyright Agency in its latest round of grants from its Cultural...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Australian author Gideon Haigh has won the 2013 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award in the UK for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh was announced...

Monday, 15 April 2013
The winners in each category of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) will receive a cash prize of $5000, up from $1000 in 2012, thanks to support from new sponsors this...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced—the first time in the history of the awards that the judges have revealed the longlisted titles. The...