Thursday, 14 June 2012
‘This is the year that publishers and booksellers alike woke up to all the positives going on, and were determined to feed off each other’s knowledge and passion for books...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Collecting Cooper (Paul Cleave, S&S) Luther: The Calling (Neil Cross,...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced two promotions in its senior management team following James Kellow’s move from commercial director to CEO. The publisher said in a statement that Darren Kelly has...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
A South American crime lord, arrested by Detective Michael Bennett, vows to unleash epic violence on New York City from behind bars. Detective Bennett tries to save his family from...

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Australian authors and members of the publishing industry were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has been made a Companion in the...

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Ray Bradbury, US author and recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, has died aged 91. Bradbury wrote hundreds of short stories and nearly 50 books including Fahrenheit...

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Penny Martin, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, on behalf of Caroline Hunter, Sybil Kesteven and Karen Enkelaar, writes: ‘The publishing community in Australia is saddened by the untimely death of Carolyn...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Award were announced at unCONventional, the 33rd National Science Fiction Convention in Auckland, during New Zealand’s Queens Birthday weekend on 1-4 June. Winners...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
‘I hope that with the growth of ebooks we start to see a renaissance in physical book publishing but before that can happen I think we all need to do...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Continuum 8: Craftonomicon: 51st Australian National Science Fictional Convention, Melbourne: 8-11 June if:book Australia: The 24-hour Book (Australia wide): 11-12 June Noosa Longweekend Festival,...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
In 2006 the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet (Manny Noakes & Peter Clifton, Penguin) pushed ahead of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code (Transworld) on the bestseller charts and caused media controversy,...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Scribe has sold Greek rights for Pieces of Mind (Michael Corballis) to Aiora Press; and Czech rights for Future Files (Richard Watson) to Computer Press. Film/Audio—Scribe has sold film...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Australian author Quynh Dao’s book Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir (Odyssey Books) is one of the 12 shortlisted titles in the nonfiction category for the 2012 William...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Specialty Australian publisher R&R Publications has entered voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. Distributor Alpa Books, which previously represented the publisher, said in a statement last week that eligible returns...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has announced that its self-publishing platform, to be called Kobo Writing Life, will be available in English by the end of this month. Kobo formally...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The Australian Council for the Arts has released the results of its Booked travel fund in 2011/2012 based on publishers’ reports. Overall, the fund supported 20 publishers to attend book fairs...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Members of the Queensland literary community have expressed concern after learning that Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is one of the state’s ambassadors for the National Year of Reading 2012. As...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The 2012 Emerging Writers’ Festival took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June. Among the entertainment at the opening night event ‘Stories That Matter’, author Fiona McGregor delivered...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Festival director Lisa Dempster’s final Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), which took place in Melbourne from 24 May to 3 June, was its ‘most successful ever’. ‘We’ve sold out everything completely,...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival will return to Christchurch this year after the previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and a scaled-down version in 2011—were abandoned due to...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday next Monday (in all Australian states except WA and QLD), the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 June. The...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author and record company owner, has died aged 63. Goldmark ran a business that took touring authors around San Francisco, US. She is the author of several books including a...