Wednesday, 25 March 2015
‘It seems that in cities like Sydney and Melbourne, wherever a bookshop closes, another opens. However, could it be that in the ACT bookshops will only end up existing in...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
In South Australia, the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) union and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business SA have struck a deal to abolish some penalty rates...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Online women’s magazine the Hoopla has announced it is to close, citing an increasingly competitive online market as the cause. The Hoopla was launched in 2011 by Wendy Harmer and Jane Waterhouse,...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Canberra independent bookstore Electric Shadows will close before June as the store’s building has been sold for redevelopment and will be demolished.The store first opened in 1987 under owner Andrew Pike and named after the...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
The biennial Tasmanian Literary Prizes have been rebranded as the Premier’s Literary Prizes and expanded to include an award for young Tasmanian writers.The Young Writer’s Prize, worth $5000, is open...

Monday, 23 March 2015
Easter-themed children’s books have taken over this week’s fastest movers chart, with Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Easter Egg Hunt (Ladybird Books) sitting in top spot. Also in the fastest movers chart...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer (Lothian) is one of eight titles shortlisted for this year’s Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in children’s books.The shortlists for the Kate Greenaway Medal...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will headline the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival, featuring in just one session on 16 May at the Aotea Centre.Joining Murakami will be more than 150 authors in...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015
‘With interest rates low, a weak Australian dollar and a waning interest in e-reading, conditions are perfect for bookstores to reclaim the ground lost since the GFC’—Robinson Bookshop chain co-owner...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Pan Macmillan has announced it will not publish a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans, with the authors to self-publish a digital version in coming weeks.Pan Macmillan said in a...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.The visiting international...

Monday, 16 March 2015
James Patterson’s 14th Deadly Sin (Century) has climbed to the number one spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen...

Monday, 16 March 2015
Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing and Wilkins Farago have been nominated in the Oceania region for the third annual Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.Presented by the...

Monday, 16 March 2015
The full line-up and program for the 2015 Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London has been announced.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Kate Grenville, Steve Toltz,...

Monday, 16 March 2015
Melbourne writer Oscar Schwartz has won the inaugural The Lifted Brow (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Human’.Schwartz was selected from a...

Monday, 16 March 2015
TLC Books in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Manly is up for sale. Bookstore owner Tanya Caunce has listed the store for sale on Gumtree with a negotiable price of $30,000,...