Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Bertelsmann, which owns 53% of the recently merged entity Penguin Random House, has released its annual financial report. The report ‘reflects a full year of Random House … and a...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Co-op campus bookshop has announced it will take over the main bookshop and retail outlet at Curtin University in Western Australia. The bookshop was previously owned and run by...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) and app developer Chatty Kidz have launched a new children’s reading app. The app, which is available to download for free, was launched on 15 April....

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference will be held in Sydney from 13-14 November.The organisation’s third annual conference, and its first outside Melbourne, will be held at the Federation...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
The Copyright Agency has allocated an additional half a million dollars from its Cultural Fund to expand its Reading Australia website.The website, which was launched in October 2013, provides a range...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
‘Publishers and booksellers face an inherent paradox: they offer specialized skills in a world where everyone can now publish and sell a book’—Foong Ling Kong presents a comprehensive overview of...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Australian Publishers Association (APA) CEO Michael Gordon-Smith has confirmed the organisation has made changes to its office staffing.Industry professional development manager Dee Read, manager of member services and administration Kaye...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold the film/TV option to Anna Krien’s Night Games to Samantha Lang at Wild Light Films.Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare has sold Slovenian rights to four books in...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Text Publishing is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.The Melbourne-based publisher will mark the occasion at its Melbourne Writers Festival party, which publisher Michael Heyward told Books+Publishing has ‘become a...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
British author Sue Townsend has died, aged 68. Townsend was the creator of the bestselling ‘Adrian Mole’ series, beginning with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (Penguin) in...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Author Doris Pilkington Garimara has died, aged 76. University of Queensland Press writes:‘Indigenous writer Doris Pilkington Garimara passed away peacefully on April 10, surrounded by family in Perth. Doris was...

Monday, 14 April 2014
TV chef Pete Evans’ cookbook Healthy Every Day (Plum) has moved from outside the top 10 last week to first place in this week’s bestsellers chart, ahead of I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah...

Monday, 14 April 2014
Leading Edge Books Benalla in country Victoria will close in May. The bookstore was opened in May 1999 by Ron Schulz and his wife Bev. At its high point it employed three...

Friday, 11 April 2014
The program for the Northern Territory writers festival Wordstorm 2014 has been released. Running in Darwin from 29 May to 1 June, the festival will feature 70 writers, including 40...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
The ‘first wave of events’ for the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London have been announced and tickets are now on sale.The four-day program,...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Former HarperCollins nonfiction publisher Roz Hopkins and former HarperCollins book designer Natalie Winter have launched the new publishing company Captain Honey.Hopkins told Books+Publishing she and Winter started the company to...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.De Kretser’s novel is one of 10 shortlisted for the award. The full...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
In Melbourne, the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), along with bookseller and publisher Perimeter Books, has opened a new bookshop specialising in art and photography books. The CCP converted its gallery store...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Independent Tasmanian bookseller Fullers Bookshop Launceston is on the market. Owner Clive Tilsley told Books+Publishing the decision to sell the Launceston business was made ‘purely for personal reasons’. ‘Ros and...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Penguin Australia and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) are among the winners at the inaugural London Book Fair (LBF) International Book Industry Excellence Awards.Penguin Australia received the Educational Learning Resources...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
‘You’ve managed to completely remove romance from the festival’—romance reader and reviewer Gabby bemoans the lack of romance programming in the 2014 Sydney Writers’ Festival in an open letter to the festival

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival has released its full program and tickets are now available for sale.The festival, which will be held from 31 May to 2 June at...