Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The ABC Shop and the Co-op were among the retailers recognised in the Australian Retailers Association’s (ARA) 2014 Australian Retailer of the Year Awards.The ABC Shop won the Australian Customer Satisfaction...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Walker Books has promoted Angela Van Den Belt to the position of president, general manager and commercial director of Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Van Den Belt was previously deputy...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
A new literary festival billed as Australia’s ‘largest festival to showcase only nonfiction literature, writing and ideas’ will be held in Geelong, Victoria, in August.The Word for Word: National Non-fiction...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
South African writer Nadine Gordimer has died, aged 90. Gordimer’s literary agency, United Agents, writes: ‘Nadine Gordimer, who in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died peacefully...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English-language rights to Sapphire Skies, White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra). Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Canadian rights to The New Classics (Donna Hay); and...

Monday, 14 July 2014
The 2014 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: C S Lewis and the Body in the Basement (Kel Richards, Strand) Eating Heaven (Simon...

Monday, 14 July 2014
Lost & Found by Perth author and bookseller Brooke Davis (Hachette) has entered the bestsellers chart this week in 10th place after being last week’s highest new entry in 17th place....

Monday, 14 July 2014
A new PwC report, Economic contribution of the New Zealand publishing industry, has found the industry ‘generated or supported a total of [NZ]$382 million [A$358 million] in GDP’.The report analysed...

Friday, 11 July 2014
New Zealand independent bookstore Page & Blackmore’s in Nelson has been withdrawn from the market, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers Peter and Ann Rigg, who own half of the bookstore, have decided...

Friday, 11 July 2014
The Christchurch Writers’ Festival has rebranded as the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival and released its 2014 program.Among the international guests at this year’s festival, which runs from 27...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the National Biography Award, which recognises ‘the continuing importance and value of life writing’.The shortlisted titles are: A Spy in the...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The Magarey Medal for Biography has been awarded to The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe by Fiona Paisley (Aboriginal Studies Press). The biennial prize, worth $10,000, is presented to the best biographical...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (Giramondo) has won the 2014 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.The Swan Book was selected from a shortlist of six books, which included What Was...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
Even in the Dark by Rose Lucas (UWA Publishing) has won the Mary Gilmore award for poetry.The biennial award, worth $500, recognises a first book of poetry published in the...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Scribe has relocated its UK office and announced several staff changes.The UK office, which opened in early 2013, is now located at 2 John Street in Clerkenwell in a ‘listed...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
The finalists for the 2014 Valarie Parv Award, presented by Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced. This year’s finalists are: Rowena Candlish, Karina Coldrick,...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Author and academic Emmett Stinson has been appointed lecturer in English literature at the University of Newcastle. Stinson was previously lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne. He is...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new report from Price Waterhouse Coopers predicts the consumer and educational book market in Australia will grow from $1.81 billion in 2014 to $1.93 billion in 2018. The market...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new survey has found that 35% of New Zealanders prefer reading print books, 22% prefer ebooks and 44% prefer ‘both equally’, reports Stuff.co.nz. The survey of a ‘nationally representative’...