Monday, 14 May 2012
The winners of the 2011 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The winners are: Children's fiction (told primarily through words) City of Lies (Lian Tanner, A&U) Children's fiction (told primarily through...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
As reported in a Bookseller+Publisher special bulletin on Thursday 3 May, the shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch,...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its position as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair has increased rights sales of New Zealand writers and...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Lonely Planet has announced that Chris Zeiher has been promoted to the newly created role of Asia Pacific sales and marketing director. Zeiher was previously sales and marketing director for...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Norma K Hemming Award has been announced.   The award is for a work of speculative fiction published in Australia that explores the themes of...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
US author and journalist Michael Hastings has withdrawn from his sessions at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival and the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). The author of The Operators: The...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot has been announced and voting has commenced. Shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Shattered City (Tansy Rayner Roberts, HarperVoyager) Burn Bright (Marianne...

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...