Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A number of Copia-powered online stores have been launched in the past few months. Some of the stores are ebooks-only, while others sell a mixture of print and ebooks. The...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
‘Back to 2009 levels—very exciting!’—A bookseller reports on their store’s Christmas sales to date in the Books+Publishing pre-Christmas survey. Booksellers and publishers, click here to complete the survey.

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Australian online news publication the New Daily, which was launched in November, is including coverage of books in its entertainment section. The New Daily entertainment editor Antonia Acott told Books+Publishing that the...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
In New Zealand, Paul Thomas’ Death on Demand (Hodder Moa) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction. Death on Demand is the fourth book in...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter (11 December) will be the last for 2013. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2013 will be 8 January 2013. Any news or advertisements for the...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 6 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Andrews McMeel Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 13 January Arbon Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 6 January Australian...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold Arabic Language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Dr Russ Harris and Bev Aisbett); and English language rights for Malaysia and Singapore to Growing...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
French-born US publisher, editor and author André Schiffrin has died, aged 78. Schiffrin joined Random House imprint Pantheon Books in 1962, rising to become its editor-in-chief and managing director. At...

Monday, 2 December 2013
Discount department store Big W has renewed its sponsorship of Mamamia’s online book show The Book Circle for another year. The show, which was launched in 2012 as a partnership...

Monday, 2 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced a number of the authors and illustrators who will participate in its 2014 School Days program, to be held between 19 and 23...

Monday, 2 December 2013
For the second week in a row, Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) are in first and second place respectively on...

Monday, 2 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Friday, 29 November 2013
The guest line-up for the 2014 New Zealand Festival Writers Week, which will be held in Wellington between 7 and 12 March, has been announced. Among the international writers who will...

Friday, 29 November 2013
Pamela Williams has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Killing Fairfax (HarperCollins). Williams received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism at Parliament House in Brisbane...

Thursday, 28 November 2013
Scribe has announced the shortlist for its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘A Year in Peru’ by Elizabeth Bryer...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
‘It is absurd to send stock to the US or UK in the knowledge that you are doing so solely for it to come back to our shores via Amazon’—Keiran...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
A number of Tasmanian writers will receive a share of more than $380,000 in funding from Arts Tasmania as part of the Tasmanian Government’s 2014 Individual Arts Program. The writers...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Penguin has launched its first series of Australian Classics, beginning with six titles spanning several generations of Australian writers. Launched in late November, the first six titles are: The Getting...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
The Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, which will hold its inaugural event in London from 29 May to 1 June 2014, will be opened by Tim Winton....

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Western Australian writer Kate Fielding is one of 10 artists to receive this year’s Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Fielding, who is based in Kalgoorlie, is...