Tuesday, 28 July 2015
New Zealand company Booktrack, which adds soundtracks and ‘ambient audio’ to ebooks and sells them from its website, has received US$5m (A$6.87m) in funding from investors COENT Centure Partners and Sparkbox...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey says the government is considering removing the GST threshold entirely on overseas purchases.After previously signalling his intention to lower the GST threshold, Hockey told the ABC the...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton on 23 September.The collection of nonfiction writing explores Winton’s relationship with the Australian landscape and ‘how it...

Monday, 27 July 2015
UWA Publishing, in partnership with Copyright Agency and 720 ABC Perth, has launched a new award for an unpublished manuscript.The Dorothy Hewett Award, named after the Australian novelist, poet and...

Monday, 27 July 2015
UK author and journalist Jon Ronson will deliver the opening address at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 2 September, joining international guests Sarah Waters, Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, among...

Monday, 27 July 2015
Writers Victoria has launched a new prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds.The Deborah Cass Prize will be awarded to an early-career Victorian author who was born overseas or has at...

Thursday, 23 July 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced its Lantern imprint will reduce the number of books it publishes in 2016 and 2017, and that Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will...

Thursday, 23 July 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its December 2015 grants round and replaced its six-year funding programs with a four-year model, under its new grant program introduced following cuts to the...

Thursday, 23 July 2015
British author Will Self will deliver the closing address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 24 July. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, UK...

Wednesday, 22 July 2015
The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has released a second line-up of authors to appear at its 2015 festival, which runs from 11-13 September in Hobart.Joining Don Watson and Bob...

Wednesday, 22 July 2015
‘The draft [National Program for Excellence in the Arts] guidelines—released earlier this month—do not seem to have been created with literature and publishing in mind. In fact, they don’t mention literature,...

Wednesday, 22 July 2015
A film adaptation of Randolph Stow’s 1963 novel Tourmaline has received funding in the latest round of Screen Australia grants.Stow’s post-apocalyptic novel, which will be re-issued as a ‘Text Classic’...

Tuesday, 21 July 2015
The titles shortlisted for the Australian Publishers Association Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Primary EducationStudent Resource: Mathematics (Numeracy) Nelson Maths Australian Curriculum NSW K-6+...

Tuesday, 21 July 2015
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the first round of authors appearing in its 2015 program, which runs from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia.International...

Monday, 20 July 2015
Police have ‘raided’ Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide for selling copies of the R18-classified American Psycho that were not plastic-wrapped, reports ABC News.Co-owner Jason Lake said a new Picador Classic edition...

Friday, 17 July 2015
The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.Cardboard Cathedral (Andrew Barrie, Auckland University Press), designed by Janson Chau, won the overall...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Black Inc. has launched an ‘online book club community’ to promote Black Inc. and Nero titles to members of book clubs.‘Read between the Wines’, which has its own website, quarterly...