Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Murdoch Books owner and chief executive Matt Handbury has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher is in negotiations to sell the business to Allen & Unwin. Handbury said Murdoch Books...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Hachette Australia has announced that CEO Malcolm Edwards will retire at the end of 2013 after almost 20 years with the company. The publisher said in a statement that Edwards...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:   The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng, Myrmidon Books)   Swimming Home (Deborah Levy, And...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bestselling author Bryce Courtenay has announced that he has been diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay said on his Facebook page that he is ‘expected to have only some months...

Monday, 10 September 2012
School bookseller Education Works will be liquidated, following a second meeting of the company’s creditors at the end of August. However, three of the nine businesses in the Education Works...

Friday, 7 September 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September. At the awards ceremony held at Fed Square’s BMW Edge,...

Friday, 7 September 2012
Kobo has unveiled three new ereading devices which will be available in Australia and New Zealand before the end of the year. The new devices—branded the ‘Kobo Family’ along with...

Thursday, 6 September 2012
Readings is expanding its offering to customers beyond books and music, by hosting a tour to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January next year. Readings event coordinator Chris...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The finalists for this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award have been announced. The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented to a Victorian author...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The winners of the inaugural Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced on 4 September on the eve of the Brisbane Writers Festival. The winners in each category are: Fiction book award...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
The winners of the 2012 Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories...

Monday, 3 September 2012
Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Black Inc.), has won this year’s John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics. Charlton, who receives...

Monday, 3 September 2012
The winners of this year’s cultural awards from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 1 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. The...

Thursday, 30 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 29 August. Pig Boy by J C Burke (Woolshed Press) won the best...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Journalist and editor Charlotte Harper has launched a new digital-first publishing business called Editia. Editia (pronounced ‘edeesha’) will focus on works of long-form journalism and short nonfiction between 10,000 and...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced it will restructure the organisation from November this year. The restructure, which has been under discussion since 2009, was formally agreed...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) on Wednesday 5 September will raise funds to increase literacy levels and improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote regions. Keynote speakers...

Monday, 27 August 2012
Bereft by Australian author Chris Womersley (Scribe) is one of four titles shortlisted for this year’s Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger Award. The UK award is presented annually for...

Monday, 27 August 2012
This year’s Get Reading! campaign was officially launched on 26 August and the ‘50 Books You Can’t Put Down’ list is now available. This year’s campaign, which will run until 30...