Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Get Reading! project director Cheryl Akle has collaborated with website Mamamia to create a new online book show called The Book Circle. The monthly program, which can be viewed on...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised $515,000 this year to fund efforts to improve literacy levels and the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote areas. ILF...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
‘Anything with the word “quirky” in it, or implied in the pitch, and we struggled. We quickly had to change pitches on those titles’—Random House rights manager Nerrilee Weir on...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Australia Post has announced it will deliver parcels to households on weekends in November and December this year, as well as extending opening hours for parcel collections at its retail...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Griffin Press parent company PMP has announced that Peter George, currently chief operating officer, will replace Richard Allely as managing director this month. In a statement to the Australian Stock...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Crossfire Hurricane, which takes its title from the opening lines to 'Jumping Jack Flash', provides a new perspective on the Rolling Stones’ journey. The film combines previously unseen historical footage with...

Monday, 15 October 2012
British author Helen Nicoll, best known as the writer of the 'Meg and Mog' books for children, has died aged 74. Nicoll wrote 17 books, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski, about...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex Press has sold Macedonian rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed the UK rights to Ishmael and the hoops of Steel (Michael Gerard Bauer); Brazilian...

Monday, 15 October 2012
In Rick Riordan’s YA novel The Mark of Athena (Puffin), Annabeth and her friends have landed at camp Jupiter to unite the Roman and Greek demigods and combine forces to...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
‘We were unable to obtain repayment from him of Canongate's substantial advance, which had to be written off’—Canongate chairman Christopher Bland, who said that the company’s operating loss of £368,467...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Campion Education has relaunched its ebookstore on the ReadCloud platform. The store, which was previously called Read Without Paper, has also been rebranded under the Campion name. As previously reported...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Allen & Unwin is advertising for four new staff members, including two publishers, to work within the Murdoch Books business, which it acquired this month. A&U is advertising for a...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair opens today, with New Zealand this year’s Guest of Honour. Forty-eight exhibitors from Australia are participating, with the Australian...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
J K Rowling’s first adult novel The Casual Vacancy (Hachette), after an embargoed release in late September, is top of the highest new entries chart and the bestsellers chart this...

Monday, 8 October 2012
This year’s Whitley Awards have been presented. The awards, which are presented by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW for ‘outstanding publications dealing with the promotion and conservation of Australasian...

Monday, 8 October 2012
Acquisitions Fiction—Black Inc. has secured world rights to a short story collection, tentatively titled Holiday in Cambodia (Laura Jean McKay). Simon & Schuster has acquired global rights to Black Ice by...

Monday, 8 October 2012
A new children’s publisher will launch in New Zealand in November.   Book Island, founded by owner and publisher Greet Pauwelijn, originally from Belgium, will launch with three picture books,...

Monday, 8 October 2012
The literary journal Wet Ink, established in 2005 to publish new Australian writing, is to close, with the current issue to be the last. ‘We were hoping for number 28, but...

Monday, 8 October 2012
Eric Lomax, author of the memoir The Railway Man, has died aged 93. The book, about his prisoner-of-war experience working on the ‘death railway’ in Thailand, has been adapted this...