Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Author Kim Scott was named the inaugural Western Australian of the Year at a ceremony on 2 June. Scott also received the Indigenous award and was a finalist for the...

Monday, 4 June 2012
Penguin Group Australia has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that a number of staff members have recently been made redundant. Penguin Group Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne told Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher has...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum has announced its titles will be released without digital rights management (DRM) protection by August. ‘We feel strongly that Momentum’s goal is to make books as...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Ebook sales now account for six percent of Bloomsbury’s worldwide sales and grew by 159% in the financial year ending 29 February 2012, the publisher reported in its most recent...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
‘In the end, it took Joel [Naoum] and I all of about two minutes to decide that all of my ebook-only titles would be sold at the lower “American” price and...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Program has been launched and is available on the website. Tickets are also now available for purchase. Authors featured in this year’s schools’ program,...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has confirmed Greens Senator Bob Brown will be a keynote speaker at this year’s event. Brown, who recently stepped down from his role as Greens...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The winners of the inaugural Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced. The overall prize, worth $4000, was presented to Tully Hansen for...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Following the news that the '50 Books You Can’t Put Down' list will be all-Australian for the first time this year, Get Reading! has revealed that this year’s campaign will...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Murdoch Books has announced it is ‘taking radical steps to secure its future in the face of dramatic changes in the book industry’. The publisher said in a statement that...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Latin American author Carlos Fuentes has died aged 83. Fuentes's best-known works include The Death Of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and The Crystal Frontier.

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Sue Gillies, who was the business development manager at Five Mile Press prior to her retirement, has died. Five Mile Press writes: ‘It is with great sadness we must let you...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
New Zealand writer, scholar and curator Peter Simpson has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship. Simpson will use the NZ$100,000 (approximately...

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...