Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Book-related events over the coming fortnight include: Reality Bites Literary Festival, Conroy, QLD: 26-29 July National Poetry Day, NZ: 27 July Booksellers NZ Conference, Auckland, NZ: 1-2 August Corrugated Lines: A Festival of...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Stephen Samuel has been appointed as the director of the Clunes Booktown festival, replacing Tess Brady who has stepped down from the role after directing the festival since the inaugural...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. Acting chair of Varuna’s board of directors Sharryn...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Pearson has acquired the self-publishing service Author Solutions ‘from Bertram Capital for US$116 million [approximately A$113 million] in cash’, the publisher announced in a statement. The company said that while Author...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop and handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont were drawn together in a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782 and...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Knuckled by Fiona Wright (Giramondo) has won this year’s Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. Wright was announced as the winner of this year’s award at the Association for the Study...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
'This acquisition will allow Penguin to participate fully in perhaps the fastest-growing area of the publishing economy and gain skills in customer acquisition and data analytics that will be vital...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Margaret Mahy, renowned New Zealand author of books for children and young adults, has died.  Mahy won numerous awards including the New Zealand Order of Merit (1993), Arts Foundation Icon Award...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Pinerolo, the Children’s book cottage in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, will receive Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) funding for its four residencies for emerging and established illustrators of children’s books. Four...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Twenty eight-year-old finance golden boy and billionaire Eric Packer takes a long drive across town in a stretch limousine to get a haircut from his favourite barber. En route, in...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Curtis Brown has sold Burial Rites (Hannah Kent) to Picador in Australia, Picador in the UK and Little, Brown in the US; and foreign-language rights to France, Italy, Holland,...

Monday, 23 July 2012
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 23 July.  The winning titles are: Fiction Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears,...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Anna Funder recently added the Miles Franklin Literary Award to a long list of awards for All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton) and the book has risen in the top 10 bestsellers chart,...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
‘It is impossible to know what Amazon’s ebook or Kindle sales are in Australia but Australian publishers willing to talk report them having more than 80 per cent market share’—Readings’...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Canberra Times literary editor Gia Metherell and arts editor Diana Streak are reported to be ‘negotiating their futures’ at the newspaper after learning that their positions have been axed, reports...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
BBC Worldwide has revealed a £16.1 million (approximately A$24.5 million) write down of Lonely Planet in its 2011-2012 annual report. It is the second time the British company has written...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The New Zealand Book Council has announced that CEO Noel Murphy will finish in his position in October. The council said in a statement that Murphy has decided to leave...