Wednesday, 7 January 2015
The Federal Government will provide $6 million over three years to establish the new Book Council of Australia.The funding, which was announced in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook on...

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Melbourne teacher and blogger Philip Thiel has announced the formation of the $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing, aimed at supporting inventive online writing. The recipient will commit to producing 50...

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
The recently elected Victorian Labor Government announced Martin Foley as the Minister for Creative Industries in December 2014, and has rebranded Arts Victoria as Creative Victoria. Foley, the Member for Albert...

Monday, 5 January 2015
Supanews has sold its chain of company-owned and franchised newsagency stores to WHSmith, reports the Courier Mail. However, Supanews managing director Adrian Gaskin told Books+Publishing his business had retained and continues to...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
'At the moment the skills of the "higher order of booksellers" are missing from the online environment ... those of us who want to participate in the digital market in...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kobo boss says tablets are for 'casual readers'Paypal to announce 'revised content policies'...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Bookseller+Publisher will launch a new-look website and Weekly Book Newsletter next week. The redesigned website will feature new subscriber-only content including book reviews, features, author interviews and special reports, as...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
A millionaire is gunned down and detective Lindsay Boxer finds that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four ‘untouchable' criminals in James Patterson's 11th Hour (Century), which...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
In a session at the Leading Edge Books annual conference on Sunday 12 March, Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly announced the price structure of the new TitlePage Plus service. The pricing...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Historian, bushman and author Robert Arthur Breeden has died aged 84. Breeden compiled Aboriginal Words, Stories & Legends (Department of Environment and Conservation) of Jack Bussell's handwritten notes from the 1920s on the Wardandi...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
French comic-book artist Jean Giraud, also known as ‘Moebius', has died aged 73. Giraud's dark fantasy worlds influenced graphic novels and science fiction films such as Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element and...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
John Garratt Publishing will rebrand as 'Garratt Publishing', the company has announced in a statement. The niche publisher of religious resources said the 'brand new look and image ... are outward...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The Western Australian branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia hosted 22 WA authors at its ninth annual 'night with our stars' event on 8 March.   'Authors and illustrators...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Bookseller+Publisher has released data indicating that reviews of books by men outnumber reviews of books by women in several of Australia's major print newspapers and magazines. The release of the...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
On Fancy Goods this week we meet Claudia Gray, author of Balthazar (HarperCollins), Rebecca Butterworth reviews Missing: Raven Lucas Book 1 (Christine Harris, Scholastic), and Hannah Francis reviews Things a...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Book sales were 'up slightly on 2010' at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said it was 'a relief given the retail price of books...

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
The 2012 Leading Edge Books Conference, held in Melbourne on 10 and 11 March, was the largest in the conference's history, according to Leading Edge Books general manager Simon Milne....

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Wellington writer Jack Lasenby has won the 2012 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for his 'Uncle Trev' series. The Gaelyn Gordon Award is presented annually by Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust...