Friday, 27 September 2013
A number of publishers and writers have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Random House associate publisher of...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
Kobo has appointed Stephanie Ogden as managing director of Kobo Asia-Pacific and South Africa, which includes responsibility for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Ogden, who has 19 years’ experience...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
A new prize for first-time US and Canadian biographers has been named in memory of Australian writer Hazel Rowley. The BIO Rowley Prize is administered by Biographers International Organisation (BIO), of which Rowley...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Former director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) Wendy Were and former director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival Lissa Twomey have been appointed as executive directors of the...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Random House Australia has acquired global publishing rights to the memoir of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Penguin Random House chief executive Gabrielle Coyne said in a statement that...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Novelist Christopher Koch has died, aged 81. Koch was the author of numerous novels, including The Year of Living Dangerously, The Doubleman, Highways to a War, Out of Ireland (all...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
‘There is still work to be done to make literary editors and beyond more aware of their unconscious biases and to raise awareness of the disparity in the gender of...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
In 2012, 21,086 new books were produced by 4344 different publishers in Australia, according to ISBN records added to Bowker’s Books in Print database. The 2012 figures show an increase in...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Photographer Lewis Morley has died, aged 88. Morley is best known for his photographic portraits in London during the 1960s, at which time he established Lewis Morley Studios in Soho....

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Sales Fiction—Paul Collins at Ford Street has sold rights to The Beckoning (Paul Collins) to Damnation Books in the US. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed German rights to Peggy (Anna Walker); Korean...

Monday, 23 September 2013
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Monday, 23 September 2013
Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) are in first and second spots, respectively, on the bestsellers and fastest movers charts this week....

Monday, 23 September 2013
Last year, Books+Publishing compiled Australian statistics showing how many women and men were reviewed in local newspapers and literary journals in 2011. This year the Stella Prize, in conjunction with...

Friday, 20 September 2013
Award-winning Australian poet Andrew Slattery has admitted to the Australian that he has passed off other poets’ work as his own, and said that he will ‘never publish another poem,...

Friday, 20 September 2013
Ebook provider Copia has announced that it is the technology provider for LearningField, the etextbook subscription service for secondary schools developed by the Copyright Agency. Mathew Barlow, vice-president of business development...

Thursday, 19 September 2013
Cengage Learning, Helleman Books and PCS Publications have signed up to the Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service for secondary schools. The Copyright Agency said in a statement this week...

Thursday, 19 September 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Almost Pause: Pareidolia’ (Amanda Joy) ‘Appellations’ (Anthony Lawrence) ‘Ars Moriendi’ (Chloe Wilson) ‘Grand Final’ (Jennifer...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Families in Ballarat in regional Victoria are being encouraged to sign up their children to a local version of the Imagination Library, which will launch in November. The program, which originated...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove in Sydney will be renamed Lane Cove Books this month following the sale of the store to Gary Buttsworth, owner of Cherrybooks in Cherrybrook, also...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
The winners of this year’s BNZ Literary Awards were announced in Wellington on 17 September. Catherine Chidgey won the Katherine Mansfield Award, worth $10,000, for her story ‘Reverse Living’. The...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Three New Zealand books will be included in the 2014 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List, reports Booksellers New Zealand. The New Zealand section of IBBY...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
‘The book industry can only hope that the incoming government, with a number of published writers now in its ranks, will understand our travails, endorse the Carr proposals, recognise our...

Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language (ex ANZ) rights to The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to New York Review of Books Classics. HarperCollins has sold German translation...