Thursday, 4 July 2013
Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Book of the Year Awards.  The shortlists include 40 books across four categories: Young Children, Lower Primary, Upper Primary and Indigenous Children. The...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced a digital distribution partnership with Ingram’s CoreSource platform, which will replace its current Digital Distribution Service. SPN is offering CoreSource to its members at...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The management of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has moved from the UK to the US following a restructure of the publisher’s international businesses, reports the Bookseller. The restructure, which also sees...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
HarperCollins New Zealand has appointed journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald to the newly created position of contract publisher to ‘steer its local publishing program’.   Macdonald, who begins with HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
In the July issue of Australian Book Review (ABR), editor Peter Rose has raised concerns over the Melbourne Writers Festival’s (MWF) decision to feature the London Review of Books (LRB) in...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Alford previously held positions with William Collins, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan, among others, in...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
New Zealand publisher and literary agent Ray Richard has died, aged 92. On behalf of the Publishers Association of New Zealand, Kevin Chapman writes: ‘The publishing industry has lost a...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
‘A deal like this effectively excludes sixty percent of the book buying market’—Australian Booksellers Association president and managing director of Australian Library Services Patricia Genat on Steve Waugh’s decision to...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal. De Kretser was announced as the winner of the award on 2 July ahead...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The members of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have been announced following the passage of the Australia Council Act 2013.  As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish translation rights to Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); Norweigan translation rights to Chasing the Light (Jesse Blackadder); and ANZ English-language audio rights to Bittersweet (Colleen McCullough)....

Monday, 1 July 2013
Scribe has launched a new prize for young nonfiction writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is open to writers aged 30 years or...

Monday, 1 July 2013
A man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, to attend a funeral. As he sits by a pond his past comes flooding back to him about a remarkable girl...

Monday, 1 July 2013
The merger of two of the world’s largest publishing companies, Penguin and Random House, has been completed. Random House parent company Bertelsmann said in a statement this week that it...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Three novels by Australian authors are among the 22 titles that will feature in a new promotional campaign by the American Booksellers Association, called Indies Introduce Debut Authors. Graeme Simsion’s...

Friday, 28 June 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Ruby Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long Romance Bride by Mistake (Anne Gracie, Michael Joseph)...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Australia is ranked in the top three international export markets that contributed to English-language print and ebook sales for US trade publishers in 2012, according to the American Publishers Association...

Friday, 28 June 2013
International representatives meeting at a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conference in Morocco have adopted the Marrakesh Treaty, which boosts access to books for people who are blind, visually impaired...

Thursday, 27 June 2013
The Australia Council for the Arts will be restructured for the first time in its 40-year history after the Senate approved the Australia Council Bill 2013 on 25 June. The...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Australian ebook retail platform Bkclb, which launched in the second half of 2012, has been relaunched with the new name Tomely. The platform, which is aimed at authors and small publishers,...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Collins Booksellers has partnered with the Australian newspaper to offer its customers 20% off the price of books reviewed in the Weekend Australian each week. The promotion, which started on...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US author Vince Flynn has died, aged 47. Flynn is best known for his bestselling ‘Mitch Rapp’ series of political thriller novels. His most recent book is The Last Man...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Global revenues at Random House increased by 22.5% in 2012 in large part due to the success of E L James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ series, which sold more than 70 million...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US science-fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson has died, aged 87. Matheson is the author of a number of novels, including I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man (both Victor Gollancz), A...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US journalist and author Michael Hastings has died, aged 33. Hastings worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and as a reporter for Newsweek, Gentleman’s Quarterly and BuzzFeed. He wrote...