Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Gore Vidal, US author who wrote 25 novels, including historical works such as Lincoln and Burr, has died aged 86. Vidal's essays on politics, sexuality, religion and literature earned him...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Robert Hughes, Australian-born author and art critic, has died in New York aged 74. Hughes’ works include The Fatal Shore, a study of the settlement of Australia; Things I Didn't Know, a...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Hal Spacejock and Hal Spacejock: Second Course (Simon Haynes); and Romanian rights in Edge of the World (Marcella Polain). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Chinese-simplified translation...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
A rare strain of magic is spreading across the land, ‘infecting’ normal people and giving them wild and unstable powers. In Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked by touring Irish author Derek...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Booksellers New Zealand chairman Hamish Wright has been re-elected to the Booksellers NZ board as a director. Wright commences a two-year term as director, having completed four years as chair....

Monday, 6 August 2012
Around ‘a dozen’ Australian bookstores have signed with ebook platform Copia. Vice president of business development for Copia Mathew Barlow told Bookseller+Publisher that some of the stores have signed up...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Andrew McDonald will leave the position of online manager at Readings and join OverDrive Australia as business development consultant at the start of September.  McDonald told Bookseller+Publisher that he will...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Australia Post has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it is the logistics partner for the new local outlet for international shopping service Tarazz. As reported by the Age this week, Tarazz.com.au...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
‘It is not clear that prices paid by Australians for ebooks are consistently higher than prices paid by people in other countries, particularly once Australia’s GST of ten percent is...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Australian author Fiona Lowe is one of the winners at this year’s Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA awards. Lowe’s novel Boomerang Bride (Mira) won the award for Contemporary Single...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Booksellers NZ annual conference kicks off today in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference, which runs from 1 to 2 August, includes the NZ Post Book Awards, to be announced...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival has been announced.   The festival, which runs from 5 to 9 September, will be the last for current director Jane O’Hara,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Booksellers NZ has announced it has returned to a surplus for the financial year ended 31 March after posting a loss in 2010-11. The organisation’s annual report to members said...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
New Zealand’s copyright agency has changed its name and rebranded. Formerly called Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL), the organisation has been renamed Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ). ‘Our new brand name,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Circle, Network Ten’s weekday morning program aimed at women, will air for the last time this Friday after the network announced its decision to end the program for financial...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Secret Lives of Emma (Natasha Walker, Bantam) is first on the highest new entries chart followed by Brave Heart (Brett Kirk & Hayley Smithers-Kirk, Random House), in which retired...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Maeve Binchy, the bestselling Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle(Arrow), Tara Road (Orion), and Circle of Friends (Arrow), which was adapted for the screen in 1995, has died aged...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Israeli rights fo Nine Days (Toni Jordan); Dutch rights for The Boy Who Loved Apples (Amanda Webster); and UK rights for Shadows and Haze (Paula Weston). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed Chinese...