Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Currency Press has announced that Victoria Chance has resigned from the position of publisher and has left the company. Deborah Franco, formally sales and marketing manager at Currency, has stepped...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Michael Goonan has finished in his role as editorial director at Catholic publisher St Pauls Publications. In an email to members of the St Pauls community, Goonan said that he...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
‘Any publisher banking on ebooks being around five years from now is in for a rude surprise’—Lonely Planet publishing platform architect Jani Patokallio argues that ebooks are at a hopeless...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Sales Fiction–Scholastic Australia confirms three Chinese language deals for Anna Pignataro’s gift book trilogy: Always, Brave Little Penguin and Together. Hachette Australia has sold German-language rights to Past the Shallows...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Maurice Sendak, the much-loved author and illustrator best known for his picture book Where the Wild Things Are, has died aged 83.  Sendak received numerous awards over his career including the Caldecott Medal...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Andrew Etheridge, book industry veteran and bookseller at UNSW Bookshop, has died. The UNSW Bookshop team writes: ‘Some of you may have heard of the passing of our friend and...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) results have been announced. The winners in the Australian and New Zealand Best Regional Fiction category are: Gold: The Scent of Apples (Jacquie...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Victorian Government has announced that Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has received $12,500 in funding from Tourism Victoria to promote the festival nationally. The government said in a statement this...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The finalists for the 2012 Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as the R*BY Awards, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Short Sweet Molly Cooper's Dream...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Will Robie, a freelance hit-man hired by the US Government to eliminate suspected enemies, has no problems with killing the ‘bad guys’ but when his next target is a mother-of-two...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Several industry bodies have received funding from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in its latest round of Cultural Fund funding. In addition to the Australian Booksellers Association, the Indigenous Literacy...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Four titles are in the running for this year’s Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Book of the Year. The titles shortlisted for the award are: Northern Voyagers (Alan Powell, Australian Scholarly...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has been allocated $20,100 in the most recent round of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund funding. As a result of the funding, the ILF...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Last Viking by Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
PMP, parent company of book printer Griffin Press, has revealed that it has received a ‘highly conditional, non-binding indicative offer’ from an undisclosed bidder to purchase the company. In a...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
A federal parliamentary inquiry into the prices of software and other electronic products will look at ebook pricing ‘if price differences in that market are raised’, reports the Sydney Morning...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The top five finalists in each category of the 2012 Locus Awards have been announced by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Melbourne artist Shaun Tan has been nominated in the...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
‘Many publishers I visited talked about the value of strong strategic partnerships with external companies and brands who could help foster the in-house skills base and offset the risks involved...

Monday, 30 April 2012
Ernest Callenbach, an American film scholar and environmentalist who wrote about an ecologically sustainable society in 1976 in the novel Ecotopia, has died aged 83.

Monday, 30 April 2012
At the age of 16, Abigail Lowery witnesses a shocking mafia murder that forces her to flee her old life and identity for good. Fifteen years later, she’s still hiding...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The program for the 2012 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival has been released and is now available online. This year’s festival will be held from 9-13 May, and will feature...