Thursday, 20 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has launched a new series of events featuring live readings of short fiction by professional actors.‘Little Fictions’ will be held once a month at Sydney’s...

Wednesday, 19 November 2014
The shortlisted titles for the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ). The shortlisted titles are:Fiction All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld,...

Wednesday, 19 November 2014
‘Bundling has been talked about for some time, so we’re delighted to be in a position to test the theory, and see how results measure up against expectations’—HarperCollins Australia CEO...

Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Sulari Gentill’s A Murder Unmentioned (Pantera Press) and Michael Mori’s In the Company of Cowards (Viking) were the bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles at the seventh annual Crime & Justice Festival run by Readers...

Monday, 17 November 2014
The Long Haul, the ninth book in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series (Puffin) is at the top of bestsellers chart and highest new entries chart this week....

Monday, 17 November 2014
Hardie Grant has won the award for best consumer-facing website at the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards. The best publisher website in the awards was divided into two this year, with...

Monday, 17 November 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has expressed ‘great concerns’ over the prospect of the Book Depository supplying Australian consumers directly from Australian publishers and distributors and avoiding payment of GST....

Thursday, 13 November 2014
ABC Retail has launched a new website that is optimised for smartphones.‘Having a mobile retail experience for ABC Shop was a critical element in ABC Retail’s customer focus strategy where we recognise...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) has been shortlisted for the 2014 Waterstones Book of the Year in the UK.Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel is one of...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP) Poetic Justice:...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Scarlet Stiletto Awards has been announced.Twenty-seven short stories by 23 women have been nominated for the awards, which recognise short crime stories written by Australian women. The list...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Amazon-owned audiobook retailer Audible has launched a promotion on its Australian website offering a free audiobook collection.The audible.com.au site, which went live on 15 January, is offering the free bundled audiobook #ListenUp Collection,...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has appointed three new editors for its flagship print magazine. Jointly editing TLB in 2015 will be founding editor of TLB’s ‘Middlebrow’ arts and culture...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.Best Resource in Primary Education went to Connected 2013 - Level 2 I Spy, Level...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition for her short story ‘Pressure Okay’.  The competition, judged by Helen Garner and sponsored by Text Publishing,...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced.The winning titles and honour books in each category are:Picture storybooks The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press) has won a Philippine National Book Award in the category of Best Novel in a Foreign Language (English). Bobis is a Phillippines-born, Australia-based author and...