Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The erotic fiction of the ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy (E L James, Arrow Books) dominate the top of the bestsellers chart this week with Fifty Shades of Grey again in first place, followed by...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle has sold rights to The Happiness Trap (Dr Russ Harris) to Finland and Poland; The Reality Slap (Dr Russ Harris) to Italy, Denmark and Sweden; French-language rights to...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Book sales at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, held between 14 and 20 May, were dominated by international authors, according to festival bookseller Gleebooks. Gleebooks owner David Gaunt told Bookseller+Publisher...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Auckland Writers & Reader’s Festival has reported record ticket sales for its 2012 festival, which ran from 9-13 May. More than 24,000 tickets were sold for the five-day event,...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Australia Council has announced Wenona Byrne has joined the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program committee. Byrne, who is rights and international sales manager at Allen & Unwin, joins existing...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
‘We expect, conservatively, that just under a quarter of the Australian population will purchase an ebook in the next six months, and there’s a real possibility of much steeper growth....

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The 2012 Finch Memoir Prize was awarded to Lisa Nops for her manuscript My Life in a Pea Soup. The prize, presented on 19 May at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, is...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Rockpool has sold translation rights to Spain for Doulas and translation rights to Italy for 2013 Lunar & Seasonal Diary. Children’s/YA—Scholastic Australia has finalised the licences for Chinese Simplified...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced Catherine Milne will join the company as an associate publisher for nonfiction. Milne, who will take up the position on 25 June, has held the role...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The fifth book in the YA fantasy ‘Mortal Instruments’ series, City of Lost Souls (Cassandra Clare, Walker Books), tops the highest new entries chart and is in second place on...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Jean Craighead George, children’s book author, has died aged 92. George is best known for the novels Julie of the Wolves (1972) and My Side of the Mountain (1959). She...

Thursday, 17 May 2012
The winners of the 2012 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 16 May in Wellington. The winners are: New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Nice...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Small Press Network (SPUNC) has announced that it will hold a new conference for independent publishers in Melbourne in November. The Independent Publishers’ Conference, which has received some financial...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
PMP subsidiary Gordon and Gotch Australia (GGA) has announced that it has sold Brumby Books and Music to Brisbane-based books and stationery wholesaler Sunstate Books. Brumby Books said in a...