Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Erik Jensen has won the 2015 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for his book Acute Misfortune (Black Inc.). Wright was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The 2016 Australian Book Design Awards will include a new award for Best Designed Scholarly and Reference Book, bringing the total categories to 16. Eligible titles for the new category include...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Creative Victoria has announced changes to its funding for organisations ahead of its 2017 funding cycle. Funding for the Organisations Investment Program has changed to four years for all organisations, up...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The federal government is set to repeal existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books after accepting the Competition Policy Review’s recommendations to drop PIRs. The government published a full response to the report on 24...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The winners of the Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners in the five categories are: Birth to three years Snail and Turtle...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The Grapple Annual No. 1 (ed by Duncan Felton), an anthology of prose, poetry, comics and art published by Canberra independent press Grapple Publishing, has won this year’s Most Underrated...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Older readers The Maze Runner (James Dashner, The Chicken...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) In Certain Circles...

Friday, 20 November 2015
The New Zealand government will collect a GST on ebooks and other digital products purchased online from overseas retailers from October next year. Revenue minister Todd McClay first announced the plan in...

Friday, 20 November 2015
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under a third of the $110m...

Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) held a roundtable discussion with independent booksellers and publishers in Sydney in October, the first in a planned series of...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘We joke that people are putting their ereaders on the top shelf along with their fondue sets’—Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould on the strong recent results for the New Zealand print...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Jane Kembrey from NewSouth Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) NSW Rep of the Year Award, presented at the ABA NSW Booksellers Party in Glebe on 17 November. Stephanie...

Monday, 16 November 2015
A new bookstore, The Book Bird, has opened in Geelong West in Victoria. Owner Anna Tweed opened the Pakington Street store in October after previously working as a bookseller at Otago...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s NSW Rep of the Year Award.  On the shortlist are: Dianne Dipietro, Penguin Random House Kay Drury, Allen...

Friday, 13 November 2015
Macquarie University researchers are surveying Australian trade and educational publishers for the second stage of their three-year research project into the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors, publishers and readers. The...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The 2015 Australian Photobook of the Year Award has expanded to include categories for self-published and trade-published works. The awards ‘celebrate excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and provide...