Milne to leave HarperCollins
Thursday, 10 December 2015
HarperCollins Australia’s marketing, digital and communications director Simon Milne will leave the company at the end of 2015. Milne’s departure follows the integration of the publisher’s fiction, nonfiction, ABC Books...
Penguin Random House ebooks available for loan at libraries
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) ANZ’s catalogue of more than 4000 local ebooks have been made available for loan at Australian public libraries. The decision comes at the same time PRH...
Redgum Book Club launches children’s imprint
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Redgum Book Club has announced it will launch a children’s book imprint in 2016. The imprint, Redgum, is set to release its first title in the first quarter of 2016, with...
Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
New Zealand author and Auckland Writers Festival co-founder Peter Wells has announced the inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival samesame but different will run from 12-14 February 2016 as part of the...
Beaumont wins Asher Literary Award 2015
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Joan Beaumont has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Broken Nation (A&U). Beaumont was announced as the winner of the $12,000 award at an event in Sydney...
PwC report advises against changes to copyright law; inquiry submissions published
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...
Pantera Press signs first international rights deal
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...
‘The Lifted Brow’ expands to book publishing, aquires debut novel
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) will publish Melbourne-based writer and TLB contributor Briohny Doyle’s debut novel in August 2016 as the magazine expands its scope to include book publishing. Doyle’s as-yet-untitled novel...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Monday, 7 December 2015
The 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)...
Senate committee recommends government restore full funding to Australia Council
Monday, 7 December 2015
A senate committee has recommended the federal government restore the full amount of funding stripped from the Australia Council in the 2015-16 budget in its report on the impact of...
Australian, NZ art books awarded
Monday, 7 December 2015
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)—the professional body for Australian and New Zealand art historians—has announced the winners of its annual prizes. The AAANZ Prizes ‘honour the...
Express Media Awards 2015 winners announced, Kat Muscat fellowship launched
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...
Mullins wins 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 4 December 2015
Canberra-based writer Patrick Mullins has won the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Mullins was selected from a shortlist of six for his entry ‘A Liberal View’, a political history that examines the...
Book Depository begins dispatching from Australia
Friday, 4 December 2015
Amazon-owned online retailer the Book Depository has begun dispatching books from Australia, with delivery to metropolitan Victoria estimated at one-to-two business days and metropolitan NSW and South Australia at two-to-three...
‘The Straight Dope’, ‘Quarterly Essay: Blood Year’ win Walkley Awards
Friday, 4 December 2015
Chip Le Grand’s The Straight Dope (MUP) has won the 2015 Walkley Book Award and David Kilcullen’s ‘Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State’ (Black Inc.) has...
New CFO, internal promotions at PRH ANZ
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia and New Zealand has announced a number of internal promotions and the appointment of a new chief financial officer. Incoming CFO Richard Alweyn will begin...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2015 winners announced
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...
Rogers appointed ASA executive director
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Murdoch Books CEO and former president of the Australian Publishers Association Juliet Rogers has been appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Rogers replaces Angelo Loukakis,...
‘The Straight Dope’ wins inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year
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...
Black joins the Wheeler Centre
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Crikey editor Sophie Black has joined the Wheeler Centre as head of programming while Emily Sexton is on maternity leave. Black was most recently editor-in-chief at Private Media, which...
Arthur joins HarperCollins
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
HarperCollins has appointed Jaki Arthur as head of marketing communications in its general books division. In the newly created role, Arthur will cover local and international fiction and nonfiction titles...
Amazon signs lease for new Sydney HQ
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Amazon has signed a seven-year lease for its new Australian headquarters, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The lease is for more than 9260sqm of office space—estimated to be over four...
Bates launches children’s book publisher ‘About Kids Books’
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Children’s book author Di Bates has launched a new children’s book publisher, About Kids Books. Bates told Books+Publishing the company will publish fiction for readers aged up to 12 years,...
HarperCollins announces #LoveOzYA anthology
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
HarperCollins has announced it will publish a young adult anthology in May 2017 inspired by the #LoveOzYA campaign, featuring 10 short stories by a selection of Australian YA authors. Writer...
Grattan Institute releases PM summer reading list
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...
University of Sydney obesity, diabetes centre to award writer $100,000 fellowship
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,...
Black wins 2015 Ampersand Prize
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...
Radcliffe awarded inaugural Yale Publishing Course scholarship
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...
Readings Foundation awards $93,000 in grants for 2016
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
The Readings Foundation has chosen seven Victorian organisations to share $93,000 worth of grants in 2016. The grant recipients are: 3081 Angels: $10,000 to support a volunteer team to work...
Victorian creative industries taskforce report presented to government
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...
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