Monday, 15 July 2013
Feature film adaptations of Australian novels Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U), Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) and YA novel On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta, Penguin) are...

Monday, 15 July 2013
The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring Down the Prime Minister (Kerry-Anne Walsh, A&U) is at the top of the highest new entries...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Michael Webster has announced his retirement as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne. ‘“Retired” is a dreadful word, but after a...

Friday, 12 July 2013
Three projects have won the inaugural Young Writers Innovation Prize, presented by Express Media for innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing. Writer and reviewer Daniel Golding has...

Thursday, 11 July 2013
A US court has found that Apple conspired with publishers to raise the retail prices of ebooks. Over the three-week trial, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sought to prove...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The longlisted titles in the full-length book categories are: Best fiction Antidote to Murder (Felicity Young,...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Last week’s announcement of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has been met with some concern from the book industry over the lack of representation of...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English language rights to The Scrivener’s Tale (Fiona McIntosh); and Bulgarian translation rights to The Right Hand of God (Russell Kirkpatrick). Spinifex Press has sold...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Gary Pengelly, general manager of Thorpe-Bowker, writes: ‘On Monday this week I...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
US academic book publisher Arthur J Rosenthal has died, aged 93. Rosenthal founded academic publisher Basic Books in 1952, going on to publish influential books on psychology, sociology, current affairs, history...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
‘Dear England. We’re going to send you a big present: our Australian and New Zealand writers, film and music makers. It will all be like a series of loveable and...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Melbourne-based library supplier DA Information Services and its trade distribution arm Central Book Services have been placed into administration. Ferrier Hodgson partner John Lindholm was appointed voluntary administrator of the companies...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Allen & Unwin has continued to expand the Murdoch Books publishing team, with Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts joining Murdoch Books as publishers. A&U publishing director Sue Hines...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Bronwyn Halliday, former director of the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), has died. Halliday was director of the SLSA from 2000 to 2004, during which time she oversaw the...

Monday, 8 July 2013
After winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) is in first place on the fastest movers chart this week. Questions of Travel has also...

Monday, 8 July 2013
Kevin Ormsby has retired from the position of publishing manager at RMIT Publishing in Melbourne after eight years at the company. Prior to joining RMIT Publishing in 2006, Ormsby held a...

Monday, 8 July 2013
A festival of Australian and New Zealand literature and arts will be held in London for the first time in May 2014. The four-day festival, which covers literature, theatre, film...

Friday, 5 July 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Faith to Live By (Roland Ashby, Mosaic Press) Driven by...

Friday, 5 July 2013
Two books published by Melbourne-based university presses have won this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Tiwi: Arts, History, Culture by Jennifer Isaacs, published by Melbourne University Press’...

Thursday, 4 July 2013
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced the appointment of Simon Abrahams to the role of head of programming and Jaclyn Booton to the newly...