Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Kate Larsen has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, commencing on 13 May. Larsen, an arts administrator, writer and poet, replaces former Writers Victoria director Roderick Poole, who left the...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Scholastic Australia has announced that it has acquired children’s publisher Koala Books. Scholastic said in a statement that the Koala Books list will be published as an imprint of Scholastic...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Random House has announced that Fiona Henderson will return to the publisher in the role of nonfiction publisher. Henderson, who is leaving her role as head of nonfiction at HarperCollins, will...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
‘Given the great success of the Quarterly Essay series, including most recently as an ebook, we saw a need and desire for punchy, accessible, authoritative short books about today’s key...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language rights (ex ANZ) for The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to the New York Review of Books. Stephanie Abou from Foundry Literary +...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Former Small Press Network (SPN) general manager Zoe Dattner has been appointed president of the organisation, replacing Emmett Stinson, who has stepped down from the position. Stinson, who has been...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Christine Farmer has joined Allen & Unwin in the role of publicity manager for Murdoch Books. Farmer, who previously worked for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand in the role of...

Monday, 4 March 2013
Allen & Unwin has become the first Australian publisher to be included in the Richard & Judy Book Club in the UK, with Second Chances by New Zealand based author...

Monday, 4 March 2013
Alex Cross is in charge of tracking down three killers who are on the rampage in Washington DC. Under so much pressure, Cross doesn’t realise that an old enemy is also tracking him....

Monday, 4 March 2013
Please note that, due to the public holiday next Monday in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and ACT, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 March.  The deadline for classifieds and job...

Friday, 1 March 2013
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) will offer three fellowships this year as a result of a new funding agreement with the Queensland Government. The Courier-Mail has reported that the Queensland Government will fund...

Friday, 1 March 2013
The Copyright Agency, Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will partner for the first time to deliver a seminar on education publishing  in Sydney in March. The...

Thursday, 28 February 2013
The 2013 Perth Writers Festival has attracted over 36,000 attendees, an increase of 5000 on last year, reports program manager Katherine Dorrington. Dorrington told Books+Publishing that the highlights of this...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Penguin Australia gained overall market share in 2012 and recorded higher sales than 2011, according to chief executive officer Gabrielle Coyne. Coyne told Books+Publishing that Penguin ‘had a strong sales...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has led a delegation of rights managers and literary agents to the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), which ran from 20 January to 4 February, followed by...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Joel Fulton has joined the recently established Victorian Book Agencies as a partner with founder Gary Angliss. Fulton, who previously worked as a sales representative for Dennis Jones & Associates,...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Tasmania’s literary festival The Shock of the Now has released its program. The festival, which runs from 16-17 and 22-24 March in Hobart, features a keynote address from Peter Singer...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
‘The YA category doesn’t really appear to exist and there’s little interest in dystopian novels or vampires’—Random House rights manager Nerrilee Weir reports on a recent ‘exploratory’ rights trip to...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish eight novels by Alex Miller in the UK in 2013 ahead of the author’s new novel, which is due to be...