Friday, 20 November 2015
The New Zealand government will collect a GST on ebooks and other digital products purchased online from overseas retailers from October next year. Revenue minister Todd McClay first announced the plan in...

Friday, 20 November 2015
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under a third of the $110m...

Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) held a roundtable discussion with independent booksellers and publishers in Sydney in October, the first in a planned series of...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘We joke that people are putting their ereaders on the top shelf along with their fondue sets’—Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould on the strong recent results for the New Zealand print...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Jane Kembrey from NewSouth Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) NSW Rep of the Year Award, presented at the ABA NSW Booksellers Party in Glebe on 17 November. Stephanie...

Monday, 16 November 2015
A new bookstore, The Book Bird, has opened in Geelong West in Victoria. Owner Anna Tweed opened the Pakington Street store in October after previously working as a bookseller at Otago...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s NSW Rep of the Year Award.  On the shortlist are: Dianne Dipietro, Penguin Random House Kay Drury, Allen...

Friday, 13 November 2015
Macquarie University researchers are surveying Australian trade and educational publishers for the second stage of their three-year research project into the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors, publishers and readers. The...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The 2015 Australian Photobook of the Year Award has expanded to include categories for self-published and trade-published works. The awards ‘celebrate excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and provide...

Thursday, 12 November 2015
Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe has won the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
More than 180 bookstores have taken part in the inaugural New Zealand Bookshop Day on 31 October, an initiative launched by Booksellers NZ to ‘celebrate the unique place bookshops have...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category...