Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Song for a Scarlet Runner by Julie Hunt (A&U) has won the inaugural Readings Children’s Book Prize.The book was chosen from a shortlist of eight. Also on the shortlist were: ...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
The Co-op has announced changes to its senior executive team.Head of general merchandise Adam Jones has been appointed to the newly created role of general manager, leading the merchandise, marketing and...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Rob Smith, CEO of Paper Plus in New Zealand, has announced that he will leave the company on 8 August.‘It has been an honour to lead the Paper Plus Group...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
‘We’ve experienced one of the fastest growing ebook markets in the world and we’ve seen a whole bunch of new publishers starting up’—Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) president Sam...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Brian Cook has sold the Manuscript Appraisal Agency (MAA) to former Murdoch Books project editor Kit Carstairs.Cook, who established the MAA in 1997 after leaving his publishing role at HarperCollins, told...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
New online literary journal Bumf has launched and is now open for submissions.The fortnightly journal, based in Brisbane and San Francisco, is looking for pieces between 400 and 1000 words....

Monday, 23 June 2014
Penelope Hetherington has won the 2014 Margaret Medcalf Award for her nonfiction title The Marriage Knot: Marriage and Divorce in Colonial Western Australia 1829-1900 (UWA Publishing). The annual Margaret Medcalf...

Monday, 23 June 2014
Exisle Publishing has announced it has acquired I Don’t Like Cheese by 12-year-old Hannah Chandler.Chandler’s book about a mouse that doesn’t like cheese was written in response to a challenge...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The standard edition of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) is on top of the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row, ahead of the film tie-in...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The winners of the Nielsen New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on Sunday 22 June. The winners are:Promotional and Sales SupportRandom House NZNew Zealand PublishingCraig Potton PublishingSales...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The ABC has opened its flagship store at the new Emporium shopping centre in Melbourne’s CBD. The store is located on the centre’s third level and features ‘two reading areas,...

Friday, 20 June 2014
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for ‘Best in the World’ have been announced.Three Australian titles won first place in their respective categories:Charity and fundraising category Pacific: Limestone: Keith Hospital Cookbook (Robyn...

Friday, 20 June 2014
Australian-born, UK-based author Evie Wyld is among eight writers to be awarded the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, Wyld was awarded the prize, which is open to British writers of fiction of...

Friday, 20 June 2014
The winners of the 2013 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced.The winners in each category are: Novel: 809 Jacob Street (Marty Young, Black Beacon Books)  Long Fiction: ‘The Unwanted Women of...