Tuesday, 21 January 2014
A number of Australian and New Zealand books have been selected for the 2014 Gourmand Awards. The Australian winners are:Authors and chefs category Chef: Patissier (Emmanuel Mollois, UWA Publishing) Woman...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. This is your last chance to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
SalesNonfiction—Michelle Anderson Publishing has sold US rights to You Can Conquer Cancer (Ian Gawler) to Tarcher; Exisle Publishing has sold North American rights to Mindfulness at Work (Stephen McKenzie); and Allen...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Please note that, due to the Australia Day public holiday next Monday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 30 January. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements...

Monday, 20 January 2014
Marcus Zusak is the big winner in this week’s bestsellers chart, with the film tie-in edition of his novel The Book Thief (Picador) at number one, and a standard edition at...

Monday, 20 January 2014
A new literary project, which will publish and promote writers from Tasmania and London and ‘draw on the long historic links between these distinct places’, has been announced. The Transportation project will...

Friday, 17 January 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a series of informal networking events, called Last Thursdays.The free events will be held on the last Thursday of the month and will...

Friday, 17 January 2014
The 2014 Perth Writers Festival program has been launched and tickets are now available. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the line-up of international guests includes Lionel Shriver, Philipp Meyer, David...

Friday, 17 January 2014
Peter Saffin has been appointed as the new managing director of Macmillan Education Australia. Saffin has been promoted from his previous role as general manager of secondary at Macmillan Education...

Thursday, 16 January 2014
Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced its new columnists for 2014, with Carody Culver to write about books and Danielle Binks to write about young adult and...

Thursday, 16 January 2014
Scribe Publications has made its first editorial appointment for its UK office, appointing former Granta Books publisher Philip Gwyn Jones to the part-time role of editor-at-large. Scribe said in a...

Thursday, 16 January 2014
An Australian app and ebook have won awards at the 2014 Digital Book Awards, announced in New York on 14 January. Australian app Cowzat! won in the App—Children category. The...

Thursday, 16 January 2014
Allen & Unwin has purchased a majority share in UK publisher Atlantic Books following a ‘difficult period for the UK company’, reports the Bookseller. A&U previously owned a minority share in...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Victorian remainder books chain Hyer Books & More has rebranded from Hyer Bookworld, a business name it traded under from January to November 2013. Prior to 2013, the business was...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that its books distribution will move from Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) to TL Distribution (TLD) at the end of March. The announcement follows the news...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014
‘Our business analytics showed us very clearly that the one bookstore model in the Australian market would eventually become unviable’—Robinsons Bookshop owner Susanne Horman on her decision to open new...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
WritingWA has released an app based on a children’s picture book as part of an initiative to encourage multi-platform product development.Caterpillar and Butterfly is based on the picture book of...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
New Zealand Book Month, previously held in March each year, will move to August this year. The organisers of the month-long promotion said in a statement in December that the...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Australian science-fiction expert Graham Stone has died, aged 87. Stone wrote several books on the genre, founded and published periodicals and established societies and conventions.Stone’s definite guide to Australian science-fiction, Australian Science Fiction...

Monday, 13 January 2014
Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) is again at number one on the bestsellers chart, followed by the film tie-in edition of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador)...