Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Representatives from Amazon have met with local book publishers during recent visits to Australia. Books+Publishing understands that the representatives met with a number of Australian publishers of varying sizes to...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has appointed Tim Coronel to coordinate its 2013 Independent Publishing Conference. This is the second year that SPN will host the conference, which will be...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
‘It galls me that these monkeys don’t have to collect GST—they rip the guts out of local publishing and bookselling and on top of that, they avoid paying tax’—Readings managing...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Literary journal Seizure has announced the editors for its inaugural Stepping Stones project, which aims to create career pathways for editors. The editors, who each receive a cash prize of $1000,...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the finalists for the CLNZ Writers’ Award 2013 for nonfiction writers. The finalists, and their nonfiction book projects, are: Eleanor Black: ‘Women of Cosme’ Geoff...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
The program for the ninth annual Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in Geraldton, Western Australia, has been announced. The festival, which runs from 13-15 September, includes author talks, panel...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold world rights to books five and six in the ‘Tales from the Highland Gazette’ series (A D Scott) to Atria US, and to the already published...

Monday, 26 August 2013
Australian author Hannah Kent has been nominated for this year’s Guardian First Book Award for her novel Burial Rites (Picador). Eleven titles have been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$17,250) award,...

Monday, 26 August 2013
Hachette titles dominate this week’s highest new entries chart. In first place on the chart is Watching You by Michael Robotham, followed by Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson, The...

Friday, 23 August 2013
The Age Book of the Year Awards have been suspended and may not be presented this year. In previous years, the awards have been presented on opening night of the...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Books wholesaler and remainders dealer TB Clarke and its retail arm AllBooks4Less are now in liquidation after being placed into administration in early July. According to a notice lodged with the...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sydney University Press production coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya has won a scholarship to attend the International Publishing Management course at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland in early September. Mrva-Montoya...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the Australian Cricket Society Jack Pollard Literary Award for the sixth time for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh will be presented with the 2012-13...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold rights to Growing Yourself Up (Jenny Brown) in the Netherlands and Belgium; French language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Russ Harris & Bev...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
US author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. Leonard is the author of 45 novels, many of which were adapted for film and television. His novels adapted for...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
‘I want to find the next Michelle de Kretser, the next Anna Funder or the next Gail Jones. There are very few companies expanding their publishing lists at the moment...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Genre publisher Clan Destine Press has launched three short-form digital imprints: Crime Shots, Encounters and Clan Destine Fictions. Crime Shots is an imprint for true crime writing, Encounters features erotic stories and Clan Destine...