Tuesday, 8 December 2015
A PwC report, commissioned for the Productivity Commission’s intellectual property review, has advised against changing Australian copyright law to the US-style ‘fair use’ approach, reports the Australian Financial Review. The...

Friday, 4 December 2015
The winners of the 2015 Express Media Awards have been announced. Ellen van Neerven and Chloe Higgins jointly won the inaugural Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary...

Thursday, 3 December 2015
The winners of this year’s Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes were announced at a ceremony at Government House in Hobart on 2 December. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania...

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The Straight Dope by journalist Chip Le Grand (MUP) has won the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award. Le Grand’s book, which was chosen from a shortlist of...

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. The list contains ‘books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
The University of Sydney’s Charles Perkin Centre has announced a $100,000 fellowship for a writer in residence to ‘join the fight against obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease’. Starting in mid-2016,...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Melbourne writer Calanthe Black has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) 2015 Ampersand Prize for unpublished writers for her untitled YA sci-fi novel. Black’s entry was chosen from more than 250...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Potton & Burton managing director Emma Radcliffe has been awarded the inaugural W E and M L Forde Publishing Scholarship to the Yale Publishing Course, administered by the Publishers Association...

Monday, 30 November 2015
The Victorian creative industries taskforce, chaired by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler, has presented its first report to the state government. The ‘Creative State, Global City’ report, which...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
The longlists for the New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Antipodeans (Greg McGee, Upstart Press) Astonished Dice: Collected Short Stories...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand has cut 18 jobs from its Australian offices, affecting staff in senior management, marketing and publicity, publishing, production and sales. Penguin Random House...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Elizabeth Harrower has won the 2015 Voss Literary Prize for her novel In Certain Circles (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Collins Booksellers will donate a percentage of sales of selected books from its 2015 Christmas Reading Guide to the non-profit organisation beyondblue. Ten percent of the sales of 12 titles marked in...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year Award. The joint winners were Micheal Earp from Walker Books and Anthony Pizzinga...