Wednesday, 21 November 2012
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press has celebrated 50 years in publishing this year. ‘Every day we publish a new book is worth a celebration,’ chief executive Kathy Bail...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards were announced on 15 November at a ceremony in Auckland. The winners in each category are: Best Book or Series in...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The Future of Writing Symposium took place at Sydney’s Macquarie University on 13-14 November. The second day, which focussed on the future of publishing, featured several presentations by Australian publishers. In a...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
‘It’s not a question of clout—more of practicalities. It means that we’ll have more chance of overcoming the ANZ rights-splitting problem that I and other Australian publishers have been complaining...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The 2012 Crime and Justice Festival was held over the weekend in its new home on Collins St, Melbourne, having previously been located at Abbottsford convent. Festival organiser Mary Dalmau...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Ian Pearce, director and floor manager of Fullers Bookshop from the mid-1950s until 1982, has died in Hobart aged 90.

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that CEO Kathy Keele will step down from her role at the end of the year. The Australia Council said in a...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Kobo’s Malcolm Neil has taken on responsibility for the ebook provider’s vendor relations in the Asia Pacific region. Neil is now Kobo director of vendor relations for the Asia Pacific,...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Russian science-fiction writer Boris Strugatsky has died, aged 79. Strugatsky wrote 27 novels with his late brother Arkady, as well as two novels on his own, Search for Designation or...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world rights (excluding ANZ) to On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil; first English translation by Simon Leys) to The New York Review...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Cookbooks dominate the top end of the bestsellers chart and fastest movers charts this week with Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and Donna Hay’s Fresh...

Friday, 16 November 2012
Approximately 100 booksellers and publishers attended this year’s Australian Campus Booksellers (ACBA) Conference in Brisbane from 13-16 November. ACBA president and general manager of Vic Books in Wellington, New Zealand, Juliet...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
Dymocks will undertake ‘a new marketing approach to make books the preferred gift choice at Christmas’, according to the managing director of its new advertising agency Razor. Razor managing director...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Australia Council has announced new grants of up to $40,000 ‘to support a small number of two-way creative partnerships between artists working in Australia and Asia’. The grants will...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is predicting that Christmas sales in the retail sector will increase 3.9% on the same period last year. The association predicts retail consumers will spend...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Small Press Network, the rebranded Small Press Underground Networking Community, is already planning for the 2013 Independent Publishers Conference following a successful inaugural event in Melbourne last week.  General manager...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Co-op Bookshop has confirmed that it has acquired the Edith Cowan University bookshops. ‘We’re absolutely delighted to soon have a presence at Edith Cowan University and we look forward...