Friday, 30 August 2013
Sydney poet Stephen Edgar has won the inaugural Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Literature for his poem The Dancer. Edgar was announced as the winner of the $7000 prize...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced.  The winners in each category are: New Zealand Post Book of the Year The Big Music (Kirsty...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
Books for Cooks in Melbourne has made its entire stock available to browse on Facebook. By selecting the ‘my store’ tab on the store’s Facebook page, customers can browse Books for...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
Kobo will launch a dedicated children’s ebookstore in Australia and add local magazine content to its catalogue before Christmas. Malcolm Neil, director of content acquisition for Kobo in the Asia...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Get Reading! has revealed the first 20 books from its poll of Australia’s top 100 books of all time. The first 20 books are: 100: Mao’s Last Dancer (Li Cunxin,...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Kirsty Ward, head of consumer and market insights at Simon & Schuster Australia, will leave the publisher in the first week of September. Ward has resigned from her position to join Sydney organic and...

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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Hardie Grant Books has acquired UK publisher Quadrille for an undisclosed sum. Hardie Grant said in a statement that CEO Sandy Grant will become chairman of Quadrille effective immediately, and...

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...