Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Former News Corp CEO Kim Williams has been appointed chair of the Copyright Agency. Williams replaces Hardie Grant Publishing chief executive Sandy Grant, who has been chair of the board...

Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Lonely Planet has launched a series of ‘destination’ cookbooks called ‘From the Source’.The publisher will release the first two cookbooks in August—From the Source: Italy and From the Source: Thailand—and...

Monday, 29 June 2015
Literary journal Overland and the National Union of Workers (NUW) have announced the shortlists for the inaugural Fair Australia Prize. Shortlists have been released for the Essay Prize, Fiction Prize, Poetry...

Friday, 26 June 2015
Bernard Cohen’s The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies (HarperCollins) has won the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing. The book was chosen for the $10,000 biennial prize from a shortlist...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Simon & Schuster UK has purchased UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights for a novel by Australian author Aoife Clifford.All These Perfect Strangers is the first novel from Clifford, who was...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Allen & Unwin NZ director Melanie Laville-Moore has been elected president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) at the organisation’s recent AGM.Laville-Moore, who was previously vice-president, replaces Auckland...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Sofie Laguna has won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Eye of the Sheep (A&U).Laguna’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: Golden...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
The federal senate has passed legislation that allows Australian publishers to apply to have sites hosting pirated content, including ebooks, films and TV series, blocked by internet service providers (ISPs).The...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
‘I’ve heard before that writers or artists, without being really conscious of it, we are really reflecting back to society the issues of the day’—Sofie Laguna on the growing public...

Tuesday, 23 June 2015
A six-part miniseries based on the novels Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis (HarperCollins) will screen next year on Foxtel’s Showcase channel.The show will begin...

Monday, 22 June 2015
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 21 June.The winners in each category are: Publisher of the YearPotton & Burton, newly...

Monday, 22 June 2015
Book reviews on Fairfax’s the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald websites now include links to buy books directly from online bookseller Booktopia.‘While bricks-and-mortar bookshops are essential to our book industry, Booktopia...

Monday, 22 June 2015
Jannali Jones and Alison Whittaker are the winners of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships.Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes publication by Magabala Books.Jones’ novel My Father’s Shadow is ‘an...

Friday, 19 June 2015
The federal senate will hold an inquiry into the impact of the funding cuts to the Australia Council in the 2015/16 federal budget.A motion to hold the ‘Impact of the...

Thursday, 18 June 2015
Dymocks’ flagship store in Perth will reopen in July.The Hay Street store, which closed on 14 June as its lease had come to an end, announced on its Facebook page...

Thursday, 18 June 2015
New Zealand author Martin Edmond is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Edmond, who won the 2013 NZ Prime Minister’s Award for Literary...