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...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish translation rights to Fresh Fields (Peter Kocan) and My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin); and US, European and Irish English-language rights to Dark Serpent, Dark Turtle...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
‘The “traditional” publicity function will not be a focus of our marketing strategies’—Hardie Grant Egmont managing director Natasha Besliev on the restructure of Hardie Grant’s sales and marketing team.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Keiran Rogers, former senior sales manager at Hinkler and sales director at Hardie Grant, has joined Affirm Press in the newly created role of sales and marketing manager. Affirm Press...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Christchurch on 24 June. The winners are: New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book...

Monday, 24 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced, with Random House New Zealand dominating the publishing categories for the second year in a row.    Random House...

Monday, 24 June 2013
In The Devil Wears Prada (HarperCollins), Lauren Weisberger wrote what was speculated to be a semi-autobiographical account of her experience as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Vogue. The book...

Monday, 24 June 2013
Booksellers New Zealand has elected a new board during the association’s annual general meeting, held during the 2013 Booksellers NZ conference.  The members elected to the 2013/14 board are: Stella Chrysostomou of Page & Blackmore...

Friday, 21 June 2013
Fremantle Press has partnered with Curtin University to produce book trailers for a number of its new titles. The partnership involved students from the university’s department of film, television and...