Monday, 12 May 2014
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victoria branch has elected a new committee at its AGM on 8 May. Mary Moore remains president. Newly elected vice presidents Meg Moores...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Queensland bookseller Pulp Fiction is moving.The bookseller announced in a statement on its website that it was moving its store after nearly 19 years in the Anzac Square Building Arcade...

Monday, 12 May 2014
WritingWA has announced the appointment of Margaret Whiskin as regional engagement officer. Whiskin is currently publisher at Magabala Books. ‘Margaret has been appointed to a newly created, full-time position to...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Maeve Binchy’s posthumously published short-story collection Chestnut Street (Hachette) has climbed from outside the top 10 last week to take first spot on this week’s bestsellers chart, and is also this week’s...

Monday, 12 May 2014
New publisher Satalyte Publishing has released 10 titles since it launched six months ago. Based in South Gippsland, the company is run by editor-in-chief Stephen C Ormsby and his wife, designer...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Malcolm Knox has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for his book Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC (Viking). Ashurst vice-chair Mary Padbury presented...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Kobo has announced that the Sony Reader Store will close on 16 August and that ‘soon after the closure’ Australian users will instead access its ‘comprehensive digital reading ecosystem’. The...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Fifteen writers from 10 universities have been shortlisted for the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The shortlisted titles, along with author and their university, are:...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Around 18,000 people attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival on 3-4 May in the central Victorian town of Clunes. Clunes Booktown director Tess Brady told Books+Publishing that ‘highlights included the talks by the...

Friday, 9 May 2014
The Kimberley Writers Festival in Western Australia has been postponed until 2015. Festival coordinator Joanne Roach said in a statement: ‘The challenge of raising sponsorship and grant contributions has proven...

Thursday, 8 May 2014
Scribe and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have partnered to offer a book club for ‘environmentally-minded book lovers’.The ACF is inviting its members to sign up to host or join...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
News and research website The Conversation has launched a new books column. Deakin University research fellow Michelle Smith announced on the website that her column, which previously focussed on television and...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams will give the keynote address at this year’s Booksellers New Zealand 2014 conference. Williams will address the topic ‘Is the book world really changing’...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Ingram Content Group has announced the appointment of Deborah Lee as manager of content acquisition for Lightning Source Australia. Lee takes over from Susan Dunne, who replaced Nerida Fearnley-Gill in...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Andrew Hutchinson has won the ‘words and writing’ category in the 2014 Best Australian Blogs Competition for his blog ‘twenty six’.‘Words and writing’ category judge Brandon Van Over said Hutchinson’s blog ‘thoughtfully wades...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has restructured its business, resulting in three redundancies and the creation of three new positions. HGE managing director Natasha Besliev told Books+Publishing ‘the new model is...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poets are Emma Neale, C K Stead and Kirsti Whalen. The winner of the prize, which...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Norma K Hemming Award has been announced.Presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation, the award is for a work of speculative fiction published in Australia...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
‘It’s not just about romance—the company has interesting capabilities’—HarperCollins chief executive Brian Murray on the publisher’s decision to acquire Harlequin. 

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: David Burton for How to Be Happy, ‘a...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
The Northern Territory Library has announced the shortlisted titles for this year’s Territory Read Awards and Northern Territory Literary Awards.The shortlisted titles in the Territory Read Awards are:Chief Minister’s Book...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot have been announced and voting has commenced. The shortlisted works include: Best novel Ink Black Magic (Tansy Rayner Roberts, FableCroft) Fragments of...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Iranian-American author Marsha Mehran has died, aged 36. HarperCollins Australia writes:‘HarperCollins is deeply saddened to announce that Marsha Mehran, author of Pomegranate Soup and Rosewater and Soda Bread, has died...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
SalesFiction—Random House has sold Romanian rights to The Mannequin Makers (Craig Cliff).Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold World Spanish rights to Optimum Health the Paleo Way (Claire Yates). Random House has sold...

Monday, 5 May 2014
Nora Roberts’ The Collector (Hachette) is in first place on this week’s bestsellers chart, up from fourth place last week and ahead of last week’s number one The Fault in Our Stars (John...

Monday, 5 May 2014
HarperCollins has agreed to acquire Harlequin for C$455 million (A$446 million), reports Publishers Weekly.The purchase still requires the approval of the US and Canadian governments. In Australia, the Australian Competition...