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...

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...