Friday, 1 November 2013
The winners of the inaugural New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing, presented by the New England Writers Centre in northern New South Wales for unpublished short form crime writing,...

Friday, 1 November 2013
Australian author Tim Cope has won the grand prize in the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Canada for his book On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey...

Thursday, 31 October 2013
The winners of the 2013 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture books Winner The Very Cranky...

Thursday, 31 October 2013
Ebook sales for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand grew by 50% in the 2012-13 financial year, according to CEO James Kellow. Responding to the 2012-13 financial results for parent-company News...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
The line-up for the 2014 Adelaide Writers’ Week has been announced. The event will be held at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia, from Saturday 1 March...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Ernie Mason, owner of Ernie Mason em Book Marketing Services and former managing director of Century Hutchinson Australia and Random House Australia, has announced his retirement. Mason writes: ‘My introduction...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Fred Watson has won the 2013 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for his piece ‘Here Come the Ubernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague’, published in his book Star-Craving Mad:...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Dymocks has launched a new advertising campaign that focusses on its ‘well-read’ staff members, with advertisements in print, television, cinema, catalogues and in-store.  The campaign, which has been created with advertising...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
‘I love my job but in many ways feel that I’m starting to set myself up for permanent poverty which is distressing’—a respondent in the 2013 Books+Publishing salary survey.

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Sydney bookstore Pages & Pages Booksellers is now the co-owner of online bookstore Boomerang Books. Pages & Pages, which took over all print fulfilment and marketing for Boomerang Books in...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
In New Zealand, Wellington company Lift Education has taken over the publication of the Ministry of Education’s School Journal and ‘Ready to Read’ series, following the announcement that government-owned publisher...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Australian textbook rental company Zookal has announced plans to launch a service to deliver textbooks using drones. The service, called Flirtey, is part of a partnership between Zookal and software...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Michelle Michau-Crawford has won the 2013 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Leaving Elvis’. Michau-Crawford was presented with the $5000 prize at an event...

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
The recipients of the 2013 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards were announced in Auckland on 15 October. The awards, which are presented by the New Zealand Arts Foundation,...