Wednesday, 29 May 2013
‘I look forward to reading the longlist in next year’s Award for Male Reader Engagement. Or better title, The Day My Bum Grew Up and Started Reading Literary Fiction’—Poet and...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand is considering relocating its New Zealand distribution to its Australian facilities. HarperCollins said in a statement this week that CEO James Kellow has announced a...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Sales Children’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Dutch, French, Spanish, Catalan and complex Chinese rights to The Swap (Jan Ormerod & Andrew Joyner); French rights to Sylvester &...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The finalists for this year’s Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen Medal The Queen...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The recently established Canberra branch of the Small Press Network (SPN) has launched a series of informal monthly events. Organised by Editia founder and publisher Charlotte Harper, the first event...

Monday, 27 May 2013
The 2013 Pascall Prize for critical writing has been awarded to book reviewer and author Kerryn Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy was awarded the $15,000 prize, which was judged by previous winner James Bradley (2012) and...

Monday, 27 May 2013
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Best Young Australian Novelists Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) on 24 May. The winners are: Romy Ash (Floundering,...

Monday, 27 May 2013
Dan Brown’s latest thriller featuring professor Robert Langdon, Inferno (Bantam), is at the top of the bestsellers chart and the highest new entries chart this week following the success of his previous...

Monday, 27 May 2013
Susannah Chambers was announced as the recipient of the 2013/14 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 25 May. The fellowship, which was presented for the 13th...

Monday, 27 May 2013
The 2013 Finch Memoir Prize has been awarded to Marie Williams for her memoir Green Vanilla Tea. The prize, which was presented on 24 May at the Sydney Writers’ Festival,...

Friday, 24 May 2013
Text Publishing designer Chong Weng Ho has been awarded the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award at the 2013 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards, which were announced in Sydney...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Express Media will publish two novella-length books by Australian writers under 30 as part of a new initiative called Hologram. The Hologram books will be published in early 2014 and...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Antonia Hayes has joined ebook provider Copia in the role of Australian merchandising and marketing manager. Hayes, who started in the role this month, is responsible for Copia’s local merchandising,...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
‘As an unintended consequence of changes in consumer buying habits, people are not paying taxes on things that they have done for years’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker calls for...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Sophie Masson has been re-elected as chair and David Day as treasurer of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board. Masson, Irina Dunn, Helen O’Neill, Chris Pash, Mark Carthew, Robyn Sheahan-Bright...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Harlequin Australia has announced that Sue Brockhoff has joined the publisher in the role of publishing and communications manager. Brockhoff, who was previously head of fiction at HarperCollins, started in...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Michael White to the newly created position of head of international publishing. HarperCollins Australia marketing and communications director Simon Milne told Books+Publishing that White’s role covers fiction...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Kevin Jones, former manager of Publishers Distribution Limited (PDL), has died aged 65. Jones worked as manager of PDL, an Auckland-based distribution company, from March 2003 to May 2012.