Friday, 28 June 2013
Australia is ranked in the top three international export markets that contributed to English-language print and ebook sales for US trade publishers in 2012, according to the American Publishers Association...

Friday, 28 June 2013
International representatives meeting at a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conference in Morocco have adopted the Marrakesh Treaty, which boosts access to books for people who are blind, visually impaired...

Thursday, 27 June 2013
The Australia Council for the Arts will be restructured for the first time in its 40-year history after the Senate approved the Australia Council Bill 2013 on 25 June. The...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Australian ebook retail platform Bkclb, which launched in the second half of 2012, has been relaunched with the new name Tomely. The platform, which is aimed at authors and small publishers,...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Collins Booksellers has partnered with the Australian newspaper to offer its customers 20% off the price of books reviewed in the Weekend Australian each week. The promotion, which started on...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US author Vince Flynn has died, aged 47. Flynn is best known for his bestselling ‘Mitch Rapp’ series of political thriller novels. His most recent book is The Last Man...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Global revenues at Random House increased by 22.5% in 2012 in large part due to the success of E L James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ series, which sold more than 70 million...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US science-fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson has died, aged 87. Matheson is the author of a number of novels, including I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man (both Victor Gollancz), A...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
US journalist and author Michael Hastings has died, aged 33. Hastings worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and as a reporter for Newsweek, Gentleman’s Quarterly and BuzzFeed. He wrote...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish translation rights to Fresh Fields (Peter Kocan) and My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin); and US, European and Irish English-language rights to Dark Serpent, Dark Turtle...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
‘The “traditional” publicity function will not be a focus of our marketing strategies’—Hardie Grant Egmont managing director Natasha Besliev on the restructure of Hardie Grant’s sales and marketing team.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Keiran Rogers, former senior sales manager at Hinkler and sales director at Hardie Grant, has joined Affirm Press in the newly created role of sales and marketing manager. Affirm Press...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Christchurch on 24 June. The winners are: New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book...